dead can dance
a smallish man with a penchant for
cart+pony show jokes picked up our
mother’s dead body last Monday
his name was Mordecai
after beating him about the head+neck
for insensitivity +near idiocy i allowed
him to proceed
with one caveat hurt my mother + i hurt you
at 5 foot 2 he’d intended to lift her model’s
frame corpulent+decompose ALONE!
our largish death doula administered karate
kicks as my old bro + i each grabbed a side
+began to heave-ho
mother believed casting pearls before the swine
the 8th deadly sin she began to spin +dance the
meringue
old flames appeared too Tony Curtis (aka Bernie Schwartz)
and Joe Dimaggio father did not dance ever he grooved
like a beat poet deeply invested in Coolsville
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..Think Pig! Think!.. (Pozzo Waiting for Godot Samuel Beckett)
Fall 2022 ..what was was..
songanddancegirl 