TEEN
EAU D’ TEEN SPIRIT MEETS THE WHIPS
+SCORNS OF TIME
Bush the roofer visited today jovial diviner
Single-toothed +agile climber Beaten down
by water ice floes bursting through duradeck
membrane Broken condom-inium hell Once
was a time sublime No chattels No urban water
creep
Yesterday Hamlet on campus U of T mean age audience
18 Not the usual phlegmy coughers Diseased boomers
nowhere to be seen Sat among the mouldering teens Smells
wafting up all around me: sweat yeast +sex All instantly
asleep with Hamlet’s: TO BE OR NOT TO BE
The girl’s: thick+sturdy lacrosse thighs short plaid skirts
feral eyes Loads of ginger headed boys pink-skinned +
hunting Teachers look pubescent too tight pants high
breasted Dreadlocked Narcissus leaned in: Lady your
perfume is sick!
It was beside the crumbling bell-tower where final bluebells
bloom we talked of Gertrude’s complicity His sweat fragrant
+Oedipal caught in the webby fibres of my favourite Zara sweater
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O that this too too sullied flesh would melt Thaw and resolve
itself into dew O most pernicious woman! Get thee to a nunnery
(Hamlet)
Late Fall 2015
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