Feb 20, 2021

whispers

 1.

(i am so empty.
 circus tents
 balloon bouquets
 grease
 paint)

2.
(i walk slowly now.
 most pigeons are gray)

3. 
(i never look where i'm going.
 i know my friends
 by the shoes they wear)

4. 
(i hang myself on a coat rack.)
   (i find it more dignified.)


2 comments:

  1. let's see
    this one
    would've been from
    about '85 or '86
    \slated for what
    was to be my 1st
    book of poems:
    cruelty in toyland

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  2. (instead, by 1990
    i published my book
    of secondary poems:
    the limits of perfect vision)

    ReplyDelete

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