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summary | Art Poem I was invested in a life of destruction I was sending a message to the abyss It was like all of the birds screaming at the cold It was like everyone thinking about death at the same time I am feeling amiss Supposedly due to how the planets are arranged It is like a map of daffodils Some words are coming out of my mouth Like a planet nobody asked for Wanting to figure into your astrology It is like eating the same meal for sixteen years It is like disappointing people through art Love Poem I am secretly wonderful like a lost letter or a black pie I am tired of being a lot It is like cutting the arms off a tree And you are left with knots It is like knowing what everyone is thinking all the time It is like being a woman I would hate for you to write a long song about it It would be like the end of a long vacation It would be like a world without Courtney Love Ice-Cream Poem We were as proud as mathematicians We hated each other frivolously I kept on wondering Why everything had to be so stupid I loved it when we used to say I didnt ask for this It was a kind of victory Exactly the size and shape of an ice-cream dish City Poem The city is like a photograph of a painting of a city Some days it is not very hard But sometimes it is like being part of a vast system Where there is no one to talk to The cat is licking its dick politely I guess The rain barks like a scary dog The moon has never seemed so full of itself I understand this is a life of mediocrity I have prepared in every possible way Cloud Poem I am sorry I am like this Remember how I said that all the time You should have said it too And you did you did We were both so sorry We kept looking at each other Wondering what the other one would do Love was a pink cloud we were standing in It was a good excuse to walk off a cliff Now I am as light as 10,000 magnolia blossoms That is what you do in my memory You and your fabulous fetishes Which I miss sincerely Dog Poem I am like a dog with a pearl in its teeth It is a kind of precious thought That bends but doesnt break We are like two cities with different moons There is no way to know the time We are like two elephants at a dinner party We must really learn to be more delightful Sometimes I will just drive into a parking lot I dont know where to be in this world We are supposed to live and die at the same time It must be like falling out of a jeep Wolf Poem You have to be more cautious with beautiful things Or anything that is wonderful I was not made to be understood I am walking out on a limb It is like teetering on a high branch I am going to act really greedy While rising dramatically out of a puddle It will be like being struck with terrible melancholy Right in the middle of washing the dog Kansas Poem Every building seemed possible And I was enjoying the performance of it We were not as evil then But thick as thieves and sick as dogs I hadnt the slightest suspicion The story of us is like the story of Kansas It is like swallowing a fist It is like when your sanity comes crawling back to you In the middle of the night And you hold it out again like a tooth These poems are from Lauras next forthcoming book, Salad Days , available for preorder now from Maudlin House.But can you really affirm everything exactly as it is, without wishing it to be different better And if so, would you be obliged to include cruelty, bullying and all the humiliations of school life in your act of affirmation Indeed, how inclusive would the affirmation have to be would you have to affirm everything about your life; about the lives of those around to you; about your parents lives; and those of your next-door neighbors Where would you stop Would you have to include everyone and everything: the whole world; the whole universe , all of history And why is affirmation the model, anyway Isnt it more appropriate to condemn parts of our lives And wouldnt it be better to simply escape the suburbs and find somewhere else to live a queer bohemia, perhaps, as Paula suggests You quote from my manifesto. |
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