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2004-01-12 9:25 PM damn good Angela Sorby poem Read/Post Comments (0) |
MUSEUM PIECE, by Angela Sorby
Now that your ship is ready, Susan, that hoop skirt sailing down the aisle, a milk-white frigate of bound tits, I must say congrats, you’re “of age,” he’s nice and all that, but I in my blue satin sausage skin want to stand up and rage because there’s been an end to courting psychos by hitchhiking on Aurora, an end to splitting one filched beer on the overpass in the dead of night. Then, you smelled like a hundred hours of babysitting: Pabulum and cannabis. You’d steal my homework in a snap. You were unwholesome, Susan. When I throw rice today, I want to throw firecrackers and globs of canned frosting. I want to throw COREY’S SLUG AND SNAIL DEATH in honor of the toxic lawns in our parents’ suburb. I want to jump up during the ceremony, grab you and drag you back to our moral vacuum, to watch your hair over and over like a blue video: the way its long straight darkness swallows light. But I shut up and grip my carnations. So this is how jinxed card decks, blood feud bullets and lava-soaked cats end up at the museum under glass. So we didn’t O.D. or get slashed, and now it’s safe as school, it’s folded up like a gossip note, pale, pocket-sized, nothing that’d blow you away, this past. (via Old Hag, who has good taste in poemtry.) And p.s. Let's hear it for Christopher, who has updated his blog twice in two days -- putting up a kick-ass new short and an entry about our planned travel for the year. earworm: "Bulletproof," Rilo Kiley rec: Being sad because you are missing Kelly Hogan and Andrew Bird at The Dame right now namecheck: Justine "Made Her Website All High Tech and Shit" Larbalestier Read/Post Comments (0) Previous Entry :: Next Entry Back to Top |
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