CUT
I CUT LIKE A BUFFALO
Jack White the one who got away has a lyric that goes:
I cut like a buffalo This could have many meanings though
I doubt the majority of you have pondered this into the wee
hours However the buffalo remains an animal dear to me
My rodeorake of a Dad had me on one at 3 And I fell hard
for The Rifleman’s son Mark at 5 Daddy bequeathed me to
him for a small tithe
The term cut is often used by boys I grew up in a pack which
for a glam fashionista is akin to being raised with wolves One
bro in particular a wolf in sheep’s clothing continues to howl at
the moon at odd intervals on Yom Kippur The holidays of Judaism
being synched to the lunar calendar Hence lunacy blooms
But I digress Cut refers to the puerile fascination with passing gas
And I bring this up as I will cut like a cow every time I don the $2,000
silver cowskin jacket made by a sassy Havergal grad who sold me the
reeking piece of flesh An ill sewn overblown testament to the size of
her girlballs Sadly the pink silk lining is sagging The lining of a cow’s
intestines being a shetl delicacy called kishka
And my kishkas are what this design poseur took from me along with
$2,000 dollars flushed down the porcelain hole Same place I flushed my
limpid tadpoles at 10 when a friend of rakish Dad’s a gangster from the
‘track in Buffalo (!) said: Set them free little cowgirl Set them free And you
know how that story ends Tadpoles not swimming to virgin tide pools in B.C.
Perhaps I should flush the unholy silver cowhide +free my shetl soul from its
lifelong attachment to bourgeois finery The bovine girls I grew up with had
parents far more nouveau riche than we +teased me mercilessly for my lack of
closets stuffed full of dresses Still at night my chandelier dreams often give
way to scenes on the Great Plains where I cut like a buffalo +ride like there’s
no tomorrow
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Cut /verb – make a speedy + sudden departure from people + places + everyday
eviscerations of the soul
Summer 2018
..though I cannot promise anything I will likely not be as bitter come -17..
