doll
take the back of its neck off, there is nothing to it
the head, the neck on, the doll clothing scattered across the bed
trying to get inside it, there is a secret, there is none
one has lost it and found it in a pocket, perhaps a locket
or anointed with bubblegum, which is it?
misery/an old bone/wrapped/in an/old coat
the ugliness of waste
I have been that poor -
the next meal, the next coffee, the next cigarette
the next sweater
only an hour's walk away
up to the stomach, slightly ribbed
the sharpness of the wild animal
hungry, always looking ...
endlessly scanning, endlessly starving
the delicacy of the wild animal,
caught in a corner of traffic
sharing medications,
to get out of the clutches of doctors.
finally he began thieving to find himself.
the pension and welfare scams -
he knew he was healthy because he walked several hours a day
the sex drive borne out of paranoia,
the criminal loping across the street.
My life has been difficult but typical I have been having nightmares again and am into my parents for so much money I can spit. The Christian church has left me cold on many manifestations of the Lord in my life.
I was outed as a dyke, and the whole thing was a fiasco. It was meant to welcome me in, somehow. Instead, it had the opposite effect
As well, I am having claustrophobia at night. What do you think?
A: you have lived in
dreamland too long
Q: nightmares
A: it's very curious.
where is this going?
A: you have put my client
through hell
A: where does the Spanish
Moss party?
A: it's Marcos.
A: we have all joined your party!
A: ps: this is all living in
your imagination
A: crisco!
A: in your head
A: night, night sweetums, and
tuckums in
and these were all my friends
this end
as a disappointment
this end
as a beginning
I was sent a note by service. It was a notice by mail. I was to meet the king.
It was a social worker. That's how I felt.
Ignore
Christmas
That's what they knew, plus screams from the attic, basement and screams from the hall. I was an ignoramus. I was ignored.
I was not ignored. The young boys threw bottlecaps at me. They got me swearing again.
Did I light a cigarette outdoors? Did I stoop to pick it up? Did I roll it. These were the sign notes I made, and this is what it was. This is all they got of me and that was that.
"Miss RCMP"
A: oh, moon high
I wonder what am I
I saw you on a mountain crowned with falling stars.
"It wasn't important so lets not do it."