songanddancegirl

HOWL

HOWL  RESTRAINED  BY  DECORUM

STOP  cruising me  Leonard Bernstein

lookalike    I am here in this garden

cobbling together   a new identity

 

The cement pond in front of me     (at U of T)

is being patched for Spring

Easy to be  a pond ?  a hammer         a nail?

 

Inertia or pause ?  Could be

auto-immune   either right itself

or T cells will have you  for breakfast

 

Girl scurries by   on the fly   in yellow mini

couldn’t give 2 shits and a holler for middle

aged fodder   Body not its own worst enemy     yet

 

Busy plotting world domination with redcoated

frenemy     Faux Leonard inching closer to she

with half spread wings

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Spring  3013      Songanddancegirl      Walt Whitman     Simon & Garfunkel

PRICK

PRICK   ME

Staring at the floor   for

47.5 minutes   Cold morgue

of a place   Bring me your

limping  your decrepit  your    hanging on by a thread

 

Neighbourhood blood lab

Dehumanize the dehumanized

Pretty girl from Dhaka  eyes         glazed over

Number 17!  she intones  in

dead monotone

 

Once alive  skipping stones in

a holy river   but no God ever

visited these concrete rooms         nature is forbidden

 

No windows   just trapped

blood specimens  shifting on

sore haunches

 

In mind’s eyes  becoming animals

who howl at the moon  Fully high

in the May 2^nd  sky    Dhaka girl        confides

during ECG:  I’d rather be outside

 

Only 9 more hours of bloodletting      to go

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By the rivers of Babylon

Where we sat down

There we wept

When we remembered Zion            (Melodians)

 

 

Spring  2013