Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Tenth Street Excercise

You with the four-square name
You with your hands in your pockets
and your head in the clouds
You with the empty promises

and the vile idle threats
You with the unfinished novel
You with the blank stare
in the evening
and the gaping mouth
in the dawn
Your heart is small as a black hole
Your black bird eyes are empty mirrors
Your oreo mania
Your hammered jello
Your seagull heartache
Your infinite inertia

You with the iron in your liver
and the mercury under your fingernails —
I don't recall your name

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