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June ends with little progress: 2005
by Cristy M.1
I know
what it is
to be a verb.
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2
I know
the feeling it's
like to be
in preposition.
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3
What do you call it when
the girls with empty faces
syllable slobber,
"I like pie" into a
tip-full ashtray?
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4
Many years since
the communal Virgin Marys
interrogated Josephs
on her lawn.
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5
Two days it's taken
for Lenore to
burrow a nook
into my abandoned sheets.
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6
The contents of my purse
tell snapshots of
the modern struggles
day-to-day, a compact's
worn from the underside of
dyed-red tresses.
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7
Sunken heels and
pouting lips,
the bridgework hides
nature's confection.
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8
(a title working
in progress): "We
are Slaves to No
Man, Maya Angelou."
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9
The way you
tend to my
car-sickness like
a lion nursing
babysteps.
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10
"I pray to God that
every time you
whine, another
kitten dies." This
is really what he
tells me.
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11
The girl is ruthless
in making friends
to spar in confidence
and build her rotting ego.
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12
Let's kick on some jazz
and get social spinning
to the Bird's verse acute.
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13
If I am fright-full of
frogs, should I dub
myself Superhero Frog-girl?
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14
A violent vocabulary
of stabs and slashes
girlfriend's throat.
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15
...blushing the crush
topples all
erected monuments and
builds from candlelight
a monolyth.
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16
The princess tip-toes
across the hardwood floor
so we can watch her sleep
beneath the coffee table.
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17
Inside/out umbrellas line
the over/heads of pedestrians.
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18
Lighthouses in a rainstorm
blink a sullen city street
submerged in Greco-Roman backwash.
A Zeus that applauds in
Titan thunder is busy
bedding virgins.
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19
Inhaling whippets
from a Coke can,
like sniffing glue
from an inky pen.
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20
Dropping loads of diamonds
in a toilet bowl
so the shit glimmers
like constellations better
for a necklace made. (No one
here's the better for it.)
12/10/2006 Posted on 12/10/2006
Copyright © 2024 Cristy M.
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