Mark Metcalfe - "Sisyphus II", Copper Plate Etching
Copyright 2010. Image appears by permission of the artist.
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Thursday, February 14, 2008

Week Five Poems

The Prettiest Girl With The Thinnest Face
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Rusty Bagpipe Lungs

Her diaphragm expanding
infinitely with a crescendo,

her backyard
with all its beers.

her acid tongue,
bitten rough,

her newly crocheted stomach,
empty, without enough,

her always brushed teeth,
worn clean from all the LSD,

her tight appendages,
to the touch: cotton,

her "I don't know how to sing"
eyes, oily from gasoline.

her "Fuck you, you're the whores
Pigs and Politicians. Whatever,"

her, "I don't get to see you often...
What, I wasn't listening?"



Webs

She pirouettes
w/ cigarette-stained breath.

Daddy sinned,
the building sleeps, ratty business.

Fingerish spiders
lit on fire by vicious lighters.

"Hey, dust
mixed up with champagne just makes mud."

She whispered,
"You look too young to be an apple-kisser."


1 comment:

Mahdis said...

I think "Webs" is my favorite of yours, thus far.