Monday, June 03, 2013

Of Me Without You In


When I win the National Book Award for poetry
Ten years after I’m dead I am the luckiest stiff
In this forgotten cemetery and yes I put on airs
Plunder choices and find my source right here
O why did I leave that vain clause in my Will
To have a mirror affixed to the ceiling of my coffin?
Dirt pushes in my veins my heart is near to Mother
Earth shall I grow a night flower now some fierce
Intelligence with smooth peaches-and-cream
Skin O I feel it beating underneath so warm
Pulsing hot blood all throughout your body
O why did I leave that silly proviso in my Will
To wear over-the-ear Skullcandy headphones
Perpetually playing the Cranberries’ “Zombie”?

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