parenting
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Good Parenting
Lack of night now Vandalism: What’s funnier Squash or a substantial orange yam? In a manger? Spaghetti Wake up with a headache Not the night before, but With death: What a dire truck Skulls skulls skulls Every man, doves, In a mugshot Looks like my father For someone so obsessed Shacked, dated, bored I…
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Woman Ironing
I watch Picasso work The granite blob of gray-blue Into a void, if I said this out loud He would spit in my mouth and Curse my mother who hasn’t yet been born Her arms are returning, an honest day’s work, I am quiet, Sweat, sweet black eyes, Longing, a gauntness as from a fountain…
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“The sky is a very bad parent”
The sky is a very bad parent impatient, grinding its teeth, hyperventilating as its baby wahs and wails and flails and vomits all over its parent’s prettiest things and the parent grabs its little darling a little too tight a taut smile a slight tear traps it under an arm and marches into the kitchen…
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experimental meditation poem, no. 1
I lost it what is it objects mean where is it happening what him her shrinking away from the window what does it mean him her you keep saying it but what does it mean him her him her him 1,000,000 miles away closer closer closer closer closer a million miles away just stayed away…
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“Proof that cinema is 50 years behind all other arts,” [draft]
The brain function! each line flirting dangerously close to each above suburban new jersey tan sandy sandals skin cement The patterns repeating! another handsome man illuminates his jaw foreground becomes background the first assistant cameraman earns his sleep and Fellini’s big toe is bleeding again On the third re-write: “Terrible! …
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