(no subject)
1. The hair in the shower drain
Is the shade of your hair
And it is curved up like your smirk
I do not think I can escape this
2. Little lady blue skirt red bag minus face
Minus because the color
Has all swirled off and down
Minus because the elasticity had to be reallocated
To the brassiere and girdle regions
Minus because the youth of it took off
And left behind a distinct odor
Minus because it is not looked into
By the children anymore
3. When a building has these arthritic joints
And bends at all the wrong places
It is haunted
When it breaks off down wrong hallways
And your eyes catch on things that should not be there
It is haunted
And those whispers are the hushed laughter
Of the man in rolled sleeves
Face stained in lead and yellowed by poor light
Bent over at the table and sketching
New terrors
4. That bouillabaisse of your grandmothers
Was nice that night
Fish and tomato
Intimations of country so old
The map is always sallower
And winces when you bend it
Fish and tomato
That thin density
stuck in my
stomach and jaw
The moon fishhooked the smell
Back out of me
At night after we left her
When your fingers
worked inside of me
And once again
I could produce her no heir
5. Blindfolded hanged man
Playing the bluff
No eyes
Walking on his hands
Toward all the pretty girls
To briefly reacquaint them
With his young thin
dimpled knees
8. You know that she has
That red cape and
Hot-gold bathing suit
And super speed
That she is only
Protecting her secret
Identity from villains
But you don’t know
That she thinks
that you are one.
9. Christopher Robin
and Robin Hood
And Riding Hood
Are all one person
Christians call it God
And he smokes dope
Behind the school
And her hair
matches the brick
10. The boys who
Cannot manage their
Button-fly jeans are
Much desired because
they make the
Girls think of the seventies
And make the girls wonder
What else it is that the boys
Just cannot manage
11. These poems are not true.
Do you think
This is a poem?
12. The day I wore a skirt
I got piss drunk with you two
And had to climb into a school
And up a tall ladder
And be on the roof
Because that’s where the view was
And that’s where the gravel would be
So that I could scrape
my knees when
I inevitably fell
The day I wore a skirt
One of you kissed me
And gave me a pretty good
Fucking incentive
To make it the only day I ever would
13. Parts of Antarctica float in the ocean like
Ice cubes and other parts of Antarctica
Melted away very quickly and I’m
Not really sure if these facts are
Straight I only know what Al Gore
Told me I wish he would tell me more
Things about the polar bears and beards
And how much he loves me I would call
That a proper wooing.
14. If this fire extinguisher
were filled with Spanish fly
and oysters I would
never let you touch it
for fear of infestation
15. Do this make sense to you?
Does this make you to sense?
Sense makes you do this?
I will stop.
16. I watched a lot of videos
of plane crashes today
At the time
I wasn’t sure why
I was doing it
But I am glad now
That I did
Because it means
I do not have to
Hurt you or myself
Or wonder if the one
Was worse than
The other or if
I should care either way
17. These red shingles
Are the fingernails of
Dead giants
Surgically removed
At the scrap heap
Postmortem
By some men with tools
And then thrown up by
Some other men with
Some other tools
Thrown down up
Here to scratch
Out rain and night
I am glad that you
Are up here with me so that
I am not afraid
I will pick at them
These red shingles
Are the fingernails of
Dead giants
Surgically removed
We do not talk about
The rest of the corpse
Because both of us will
Be forced back inside of one
Again tomorrow
Until the tests are over
18. I have diagnosed these trees with
Schizophrenia the only cure
Of course is for me
To climb up them
Don’t judge my methods
19. I was doing the crossword this morning,
it was so fucking hard, really good
then it gave me “bellicose deity”
I called it fucking pompous
Because it was and then
Bitch wouldn’t let me finish in its mouth
20. Does my fallopian
Tube offend you
I won it
In the war
21. These three brown
Hairs near my navel are the
Mark of the devil
And maybe
Malnutrition oh
You have them too?
Is the shade of your hair
And it is curved up like your smirk
I do not think I can escape this
2. Little lady blue skirt red bag minus face
Minus because the color
Has all swirled off and down
Minus because the elasticity had to be reallocated
To the brassiere and girdle regions
Minus because the youth of it took off
And left behind a distinct odor
Minus because it is not looked into
By the children anymore
3. When a building has these arthritic joints
And bends at all the wrong places
It is haunted
When it breaks off down wrong hallways
And your eyes catch on things that should not be there
It is haunted
And those whispers are the hushed laughter
Of the man in rolled sleeves
Face stained in lead and yellowed by poor light
Bent over at the table and sketching
New terrors
4. That bouillabaisse of your grandmothers
Was nice that night
Fish and tomato
Intimations of country so old
The map is always sallower
And winces when you bend it
Fish and tomato
That thin density
stuck in my
stomach and jaw
The moon fishhooked the smell
Back out of me
At night after we left her
When your fingers
worked inside of me
And once again
I could produce her no heir
5. Blindfolded hanged man
Playing the bluff
No eyes
Walking on his hands
Toward all the pretty girls
To briefly reacquaint them
With his young thin
dimpled knees
8. You know that she has
That red cape and
Hot-gold bathing suit
And super speed
That she is only
Protecting her secret
Identity from villains
But you don’t know
That she thinks
that you are one.
9. Christopher Robin
and Robin Hood
And Riding Hood
Are all one person
Christians call it God
And he smokes dope
Behind the school
And her hair
matches the brick
10. The boys who
Cannot manage their
Button-fly jeans are
Much desired because
they make the
Girls think of the seventies
And make the girls wonder
What else it is that the boys
Just cannot manage
11. These poems are not true.
Do you think
This is a poem?
12. The day I wore a skirt
I got piss drunk with you two
And had to climb into a school
And up a tall ladder
And be on the roof
Because that’s where the view was
And that’s where the gravel would be
So that I could scrape
my knees when
I inevitably fell
The day I wore a skirt
One of you kissed me
And gave me a pretty good
Fucking incentive
To make it the only day I ever would
13. Parts of Antarctica float in the ocean like
Ice cubes and other parts of Antarctica
Melted away very quickly and I’m
Not really sure if these facts are
Straight I only know what Al Gore
Told me I wish he would tell me more
Things about the polar bears and beards
And how much he loves me I would call
That a proper wooing.
14. If this fire extinguisher
were filled with Spanish fly
and oysters I would
never let you touch it
for fear of infestation
15. Do this make sense to you?
Does this make you to sense?
Sense makes you do this?
I will stop.
16. I watched a lot of videos
of plane crashes today
At the time
I wasn’t sure why
I was doing it
But I am glad now
That I did
Because it means
I do not have to
Hurt you or myself
Or wonder if the one
Was worse than
The other or if
I should care either way
17. These red shingles
Are the fingernails of
Dead giants
Surgically removed
At the scrap heap
Postmortem
By some men with tools
And then thrown up by
Some other men with
Some other tools
Thrown down up
Here to scratch
Out rain and night
I am glad that you
Are up here with me so that
I am not afraid
I will pick at them
These red shingles
Are the fingernails of
Dead giants
Surgically removed
We do not talk about
The rest of the corpse
Because both of us will
Be forced back inside of one
Again tomorrow
Until the tests are over
18. I have diagnosed these trees with
Schizophrenia the only cure
Of course is for me
To climb up them
Don’t judge my methods
19. I was doing the crossword this morning,
it was so fucking hard, really good
then it gave me “bellicose deity”
I called it fucking pompous
Because it was and then
Bitch wouldn’t let me finish in its mouth
20. Does my fallopian
Tube offend you
I won it
In the war
21. These three brown
Hairs near my navel are the
Mark of the devil
And maybe
Malnutrition oh
You have them too?