MOUTH
MOUTHING OFF AT SUMMER POETRY INTENSIVE
Write about your mouth I said to him Just look in the mirror
He stared unblinkingly into my Atom Egoyan eyes *(recently
became my doppelgånger)
So the least I can do is put my moneywheremymouthis
My mouth on a good day is full of scintillating things to say:
quips hyperbole curses + snide sotto voce asides
Truthfully it becomes more & more difficult to spit words out
Not mouth’s fault It is the braindrain Wordfind is in a permanent
state of thesaurus
Lately I have begun to wonder about Atom’s brain/mouth co-ordination
& whether or not he considers me to be his doppelgånger We did bump
into him at the Opera last Fall where my husband grabbed Atom’s ass
& dragged him screaming from the hall
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Summer 2014
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