REASON
EVERYBODY DIES WHETHER OR NOT YOU EAT
6 ALMONDS A DAY SMOKE 2 PACKS A DAY OR
BELIEVE IN GOD AND EVERYTHING DOES NOT
HAPPEN FOR A REASON
Take the Cochrans A Utah couple walking on the London
bridge last week Last day of 25th anniversary trip Melissa
now a widow is getting stronger according to brother
Clint Payne Broken leg +rib cuts to head When I recounted
this to my husband of 25 yrs. he said: Well what are the chances
of that happening? i.e., the world is pretty safe My point: No
it ain’t
We did not meet terrorists on our 25th Just a snotty hostess:
We never take reservations (except they did) +2 Scottish toughs
cursing in a booming burr at the bar where we ended up snivelling
into comped champagne Hotel owner: Come back later! Renew your
vows! Fuck Off George Freedman Bollocks to you +yours
Yesterday on a freakishly warm Aprill Fool’s day a still little girl with
electric blue eyes +dark circles took my hand +began to stroke the fur
of my vest I had never seen her before I suggested to my paramour that
this was strange Not really he noted Contrary + Scottish to the core
But I maintain when unknown children follow you in the park They see
what you see Smell that smell of sewage+spring +old dog shit exposed in
melting snow They know that you have crossed over the great divide Ready
to face Hill 70 at Vimy Let go of all expectations of immortality of being granted
immunity mostly from telling those you never did to kiss your skinny white ass
Your face no longer covering your disguise
Today again the ever so faintest scent of sewage Wait it cannot be dog excrement
in yellow snow No It is you learning what it means to help make God conscious of
what he did to Job that wretched stand-in for EVERYMAN And as your flesh ripens
in the Putrefacto innocence is transformed into throwing babies onto bayonets
Warsaw ghetto 1942 And the certain knowledge that you are finally brave enough to
stop caring who rattles your cage
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(Is that spittle running down the chin of the chortling man you just passed?)
He can kiss my ass.
SPRING 2017
songanddancegirl 