big time cat fancier

12.7.07

this poem is called:

EVERYTHING MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME ABOUT BURY A BODY feat. Jess Rowan


i.

home i was there
to be buried
in a mile of buckets
of rain and storms

to me
the fissure only sobbed mildly
cautiously
like the flavor or church
or a bucket of break lights

in the heavy
we sank down to our
shoes
we sank down to our
knees
we sank down to our
throats

Jess was there
drinking marbles & marbles
had lightning water with me

i won't
fuck you up of for fun we say
with our discounted pennies or

the rain drum

ii.

this is heavy
this really big element
this is fucking heavy
i can't lift it

it's too huge
too really really really really really really really really huge

mom took a plane in from the Hampsters (that's OUR joke)
but she couldn't carry it either

she told me to throw it away
into the big lake
with the big crescent
with the fake smile
like ours

but the water will hate it
i know
the air will shun it
the fish will piss on it
but release spite instead of piss

use your hands she says
spread your lungs and drink
hold your lips and tell
the bay she has a nice smile

i am quiet
i see stars then water then fish
they are happy to see me
i have swallowed it
they call me hero
but i am still sinking

i am scared
i am impatient
to die to sink to drown a fever
with my heavy element

i am impatient
to have water
breathe through me
and fuck up my life
for fun

5 comments:

  1. This does have a really keen collaborative feel. I like this part:

    "i won't
    fuck you up of for fun we say
    with our discounted pennies or

    the rain drum"

    And Larry Eigner was the guy Joe told me about that you might like. Google him! FEEEEE!

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  2. thanks, i was trying make it seem like we were working together, but really she's in Europe.

    i wrote it in bed while reading her chapbook(in a very non-creepy way, no candles or effigies or blood).

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  3. yeah, i heard you talking to bryan about that. i think it's cool that you managed to make it sound collaborative sans any actual collaboration.

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  4. thanks for all the help VIA telepathy and late night chapbook.

    didn't really appreciate the insomnia though.

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