songanddancegirl

DADDY

MY HEART BELONGS TO DADDY

Did you know that women are 2x more depressed

+ anxious than men   +10x more likely to admit it?

The newspaper asks: is it because women are actually

sicker?  Or go to the doctor more?

Maybe like Eurydice  the underworld beckons  +daddy

waits there ready to build you a room of string   Of all the

vagaries  saying goodbye to daddy  makes the blood grow

angry   + angry blood in women causes: infarction

Dear Deadwomen: if you were given the choice by Hades to

live your days across the Styx   with daddy   or  return to your

Orpheus-hubby   What would you do?   Only serious responses

will be considered   Write to HisDarkLord at: daddysgirlsrule.com

*winners will receive  a reprieve

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..through shallow water, through dustings of  snow, through

cloudy figures of fallen light. I cannot remember, but I think

you were there, whoever you are.  

(Mark Strand  Blizzard of One  Pulitzer 1999)

Spring 2015   for Michelle & Gregory  Soulpepper’s Eurydice+Orpheus

GRIFFINS

SEE YOU AT THE GRIFFINS

ultra-contemporary   a transcontinental rumba

of the global digital   This a description of the 5th

Canadian of colour to be nominated for a Griffin

Trinidadian-Peruvian   Shane Book    Shane says:

Poetry doesn’t get a lot of laughs

I wonder if there have been any invisible minorities

a.k.a. Jews  nominated    They might describe my

poems for instance as: a transcontinental hora of the

global digital   +funny  don’t ask!   

Seriously  I don’t care how they describe my poetry

$75,000 would give my dark+depressing stanzas a ring

of dybbukery     A  #sellmysoulatthecrossroads  infamy

And yes I would take the money   Though I cannot help but

wonder if the Muse could then be wrested from the front

row at CHANEL   #callmeshallow     Go ahead

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Spring 2015