BITTER
THIS BITTER BITTER PILL
1st butterfly 1st magnolia blooming
many hipsters lay splayed in my park
today several inch closer +gaze blankly
2 guffaw +slap their sides oh so raucously
they surely need some valium or some ddt
writing as an exercise in futility as someone
close has said to me: writers just pretend they’re
writing +call that a profession this has led to
much rumination & caramel anejo
which hasn’t dulled the realization that: this person
is not my friend +people who speak with blunt edges
sometimes speak the truth
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what’s called a normal life
a series of grainy mistakes +an
irritating fear of words
(Rosemary Waldrop love, like pronouns)
Spring 2015
