poem-a-day week19 “The short life span being popular in the 19th century”
September 6-12, 2010 week19: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
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131. September 10, 2010 (fri.)
“Don’t you know you have to wear eyeliner in your twitter picture?”Exhausted by beauty marks
Knee Boop-bent inward
Lower eyelids spider weightedCartoonish astonishment, celluloid sensuality
.“How would mom dress as an almost 26 year old?”
Wrap me in autumn, skirts snapped at
Paparazzi with glitter vampire biteOn his neck, my ambivalent
-ly overstuffed purse absent from this angle
i fondle the Prodigal bassist’s luckCharms, we manage to say, “You know,
while you’re touching yourself”
A few times eachIf you thought i looked ravishing
When i walked in, toes curled
With Erik Satie in a baggieWait til’ i dish on the useless erectile
Tissue, trans-perations, play piercings
We know the same human dollAnd oy! Shomer shabbas Jews’ll
Do the darndest things—
My money’s no good here
No handkerchief to shake change
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127. September 6, 2010 (mon.)
Don’t be shy, four string
Dulcimer with Cheshire stripes
Vagrant delirium
.Absent sensuality:
A matted Persian cat you dreamt
Was hiding, scootched under nightStand— the secret drawer
Every romance novel calls for
(To jam in the back)Lock immobile, antique crust
Like the spinster aunt’s gritted smile
The promise(d) ring lost
Beneath dusty rug
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128. September 7, 2010 (tues.)
Bargain coffee pinchers
Pennies for sprinkles
Ice cream carton lidsLoose like pursed lips
Watching through frosty prison glass
A shelf of lukewarm sundae fudge
.Hoarders TV breeds
Nightmares, mummified cat spines
No choice but a home ec obsessive dayThankful to wake in luxurious bed nest
Being the beast kneading at your chest
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129. September 8, 2010 (wed.)
Self-portraits manipulated
Into sepia odes to pink-tipped
Girls disappearing behind dark panes(The Will Call doors)
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We hadn’t even began
To noodle with vegans
Please feed us post-buskathonSoftshoe-in’ for our stroganoff
Went as expected with mostly
Decorative evening satchelsOvercoat pockets still stitched shut
Silken lining unsliced, put through the cleaners(Press night)
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130. September 9, 2010 (thurs.)
Is the world so small
That hairline alone, jester
Jodphurs and dark Chaplin shuffleAre recognizable a block away
In notsobig Boston? Auspicious
Signs on a day of thunderWithout rain to interrupt serenades
To neighbours that just came to pet
The dog with curly hair and blue eyesi’ve been directing the first verse
of “That’s My Weakness Now” to
Pint-sized punks on JFK bridgeMeff: “How you doin’?”
Girls: “Wow! We like your hats! Where are you off to?”
Me: “Marriage.”
Meff: “What?”
Me: “WIll you have me?”
Meff: “Right here?”i am almost ravaged before the light turns
A queer light green
It was an omenic day, indeed
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132. September 11, 2010 (sat.)
Bridge & groom already detachedi don’t care about linseed oil sheen
Or stage dressing the liminal vaudeville
Today is about sheet-creases furrowing my browLucid dream claws- clawing at the comforter
Paralysis of sleep, coma nap, chemical check-out
‘Igby Goes Down’ in theatres flashback
.The club managers drunk-boasting
About who held whom’s ass
-shelf while ladders were used
To dim the wedding-lights(Strung out in heaven)
Seven minutes in the photo booth
Each flash a timeless first kissFlattering burst of 2D black and white light
Confetti litters the floor, the maid of honor
Slurring, tossing words like “creatives” & “ideation” at our feet
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133.September 12, 2010 (sun, wk19 fin)
“The short life span being popular in the 19th century”If no one sees me eat
The sterilizing chemicals can’t harm
Anyone smoking far from childrenOrange dust no detective could ID
Confessions and artists in bus shelters
Cold polished graniteFunereal burns (on) your thighs
A ring stuck on your right hand
Gold promise- the sun is shining
In Union Square, Mighty Old
Melancholia has won out
