KICK
YOU WILL ALWAYS HAVE ME TO KICK AROUND
The angry clerk 1/2 sneers 1/2 leers as my book 7yrs.
in the making is retrieved from the BACK of the shop
BOTTOM shelf from BEHIND $300 jeans Hip store
sells: Canadiana Fashion Curiosities +3 books
Madonna Douglas Coupland +me
So how did I become one of three? No fame No critical
acclaim Chained self to chair in buyers office works like
a charm Then there is the so hip it hurts little bookstore
where staff have perfected the dropdeadlittlenonamepoet
glare Your glowy red hair makes us writhe with: KILL THE
FASHIONISTA BITCH envy
The metallic pink brogues may have tricked the wraith-like
owner into buying your pretty tome but you now must grovel
before all of US Seems that US have sold several of my books
+have lost the remaining copies Poor little Song&Dancegirl
collects dust & mouse matter under a sink somewhere
But on the shelf where my books should rest between Bukowski
+ e.e. cummings I spy a few copies of a famous CanLit poet shoved
in a corner neglected+bent +yellowing Somehow this gives puny-poet
the courage to keep on going
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Winter 2014
