swine
so busy being free no time to decipher
the vacancy of dying eyes is she dead
or alive? or just almost dead? am i?
freedom is hard work driving to the
airport regularly staring at the names
of places on my list:
oxford mississippi
taos
heaven (better than the alternative my obygyny said)
san fran
lafayette looziana
now back in the car forgot to pack the blo-dryer
and later that night trapped inside of the giant
SEPHORA trapped inside of me
oh so unfree but please don’t tell anybody
leonard+joni fly by lovers in 65 but she was
too much woman for him
depressed jew-bu
me too
minus the bu
he called her mrs. beethoven i’ve recently been
called worse can u believe that someone actually
disparaged my inner child? !! now that takes some
imagination alongside a penchant for casting swine
before the pearls
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things i’ve been called:
peaches
cougar
ape
evil loser (sticks+stones eh)
Fall 2019 ..casting pearls before the swine..
A quotation from Matthew 7:6 in Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount:
“Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine,
lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces.”