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The Métier of Sleeping As for An Appendectomy For Mr. Scheffer, Esq. 0233 As if I’d said something magical. All I said was “Complacencies of the peignoir†And he is off into his dream world of lust: A Sunday morning tryst, a lemon twist, The tart start to a sweet day, in the hay, And the nightgown: was it salmon pink? Was it chiffon mint? Long and sleek? Flowing? A shirt he’d lent her long ago? The relaxed attitude of the replete. The inscrutability of a rock lobster. Blessing himself with that line he moved on To cover the pension plans that religions Advertise to the common sinner: bliss. Or this. [Knife -] Half the alligators and all the crocodiles Lined up to protest the great collapse. How immersed you’ve been. You missed it all. Homer was a woman. And greater secrets Than that to be revealed. Stick around. The women will entice you. You won’t regret it. He is on his knees now in church As a youth praying to his patron St. Ophelia [Clamp] O! St. Peter: Let them in. The line is long and I’m at the back end. Blue tile above the cooktop. Water. Grey skies above the leafless trees. The eagle has landed. His icy roost Melting in the December heat wave. No sun. Enough heat to melt the lake. Black pox breakout across the grey skin Mottled and weak. No men walk the ice. The fish beneath huddle around campfires. The oldest bass regales the school with an older tale. Bridge-decks will be slippery on the morning commute. NASCAR here we come! [suck in here, please] Did I empty the trash on the way out? Fog weighs heavily upon the land, Pressing the cold compress against our foreheads. A biting wind cuts through the cottons, Past the boxers, the boxcars, the rockstars. Two cars spar in the street under the lamp on the corner. Cannot we get along? Nature loved that one. [here we go] Seeing is believing. She saw how good it was and brought it back. Have you seen the kitchen scissors? Menial work after a long day in the chamber. “King of Beers†it says in here. Tha’s me! on the far wall. Jesus is on this wall. Neon. There's an asshole. Venial sins for December 12. { } (Only God can read that line.) Cheese and crackers. That greatest of inventions: The Wire Cheese Cutter Attached to the Granite Slab With a Groove Where it Cuts. King. [No more deaths than in the Holy War.] They need NASCAR. Then they would settle down and drink beer sensible. One of the Saints, I suppose. The early signs are anyway. Voices and long gowns, the fleeting-est of visions. These are the bases, the fundament, the earth. kinda like Vowels: dr ndspnsbl. Recent activity would suggest another conclusion. Less of that and more of this and you’re good. Bene. [4-0 chromic] Ugaritic keeps coming back to me. And the picture outside the Quonset hut. I was there and yet there is no memory of me. Pictorially I am allowed to be there and remember. Verbs. [pickups] Herb was a guy we knew in school. He was very cruel. No. Cool. The plunger is done plunging. His recollection of this event will be limited to the other place. That will be [is] a fact. You can live without one. Even many. Considering how big it was, he’s lucky he came in. The train is near the station. It is slowing. The whistle It is blowing. The faces are close. There are voices. The bustle. Out the doors that open with a hiss. Miss! Miss! Sun(some)light squeezes in past the squinting lids: Smoke. I smell smoke. FIRE! FIRE! oh dear god it hurts what the #$%@ is that pain in my... |
This Poem was Critiqued By: Rachel F. Spinoza On Date: 2007-01-11 11:06:40
Critiquer Rating During Critique: 10.00000
you did empty the trash - everything is clean and shining -- bravo.
just this note left on the wall
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signed St.Ophelia
anyway, Herb borrowed kitchen sissors a long time ago but it was you who you took the wisk - and won
great stuff
R