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"for sale: baby shoes, never worn"
a brief remark to miami's flotsam and jetsam. andres talks to the city. animal husbandry for the fairer species. break ups and sweet revenge. elvis costello and the first girl i thought i loved. five hundred miles apart we've lived. i force poetry. instead, kneel. the divorce. the importance of circumstance, date, and time. the nuptial hour. the stench of reconciliation. the threeness of things. the threeness of things (II). the way the world is spent. why they used to preach in latin. you kiss with childish desperation. 2007 2006 2005 home |
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Five a.m. and she's Catholic because she's Guilty. The air comes on and she is engulfed in chill, Unsavory, Aching with the weight of unholy ugliness And too much extra fat. She sparks the light to pray by the window, But to no avail. It is this, during the nighttime, that I am offered to the throes of sleep and half-sleep, Miles away and eons closer, Downing unlabelled pretenses and faking lucidity, That I am lost. Six a.m. and she cannot sleep for the cracks in her blinds, The sheets have slipped from her bed and she curls around misjudgements, Preconceptions, Faulty by default, man-made, Stubborn as a mule And malleable as torched steel. It is this, during the early morning, that I am discomforted by inhibitions and exhibitions, Desperately blinded and likewise unfeeling, That my roommate barks in her sleep, And undoes my fears. And this is something unbeknowst, Incomprehensible. How am I supposed to feel about this prime example of God? I am Godly and Godless and Seven a.m. And she disguises in Sunday dresses in a mirror under a crucifix And she has all the answers, But it doesn't quell a thing. |