Saturday, February 27, 2010

When I Say I Obsess

i mean
an emergency
worse than a bassoon
or an old hag who just won't
get out of the way

i don't mean a parking lot
but the greasy oil stain
the reeling arms
of awful drinking

wooden teeth

beating war drums
hurling horses over cliffs
a red-headed step child
on a rusty swing set
or the least wanted crayon

a hydrogen jukebox
or a heavy anchor plunging into the sea

sometimes i mean
a foil galaxy
a black-ice highway
or a ghost

a honking goose
a sitting duck
a river of frozen moons
or an enemy of democracy

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