Purblind Grotesquery
There was a sweet suite advertised.
I think it said honeymoon
but it might have said holiday
I said
Hey let us leave soon.
“Lettuce?” she asked.
“Let us,” I say “pray
I am ready” to go there. My back pack packed.
And so we go, blind
into the night.
I roll-down
the
steam-y
win-dow
and say Joan! I say,
(not her name)
“the darkness sur-
rounds us, go faster!” I say
going a little faster,
the little white car in the big black night.
We were that car and it was us.
It's true. You will become what you are meant to become
and we all become who we are.
Purblind Grotesquery is the title of this poem
about being
in that car,
(where not-seat-belted's an adjective) that night,
too late but better late than
never “aw hell we won't be late for supper the way you're
driving
we'll be late for Christmas!” I say, and take over.
“Let's watch a movie,” she
says. Bobby. Was that her name? She names one.
“I hear it's a good one,” she says. “You'd like it.”
I am Nietzsche's birds, I think. I thought we were going to a hotel, I tell her.
I like it when geese are in season
and at twilight, desperately trying to find a place near
the water to land for the night.
I like the complimentary soap they give you (fine-less) in hotel bathrooms
“Okay for
christ's sake look lettuce watch a movie,” I say.
look
out where yr going! she hollers and
I don't even know when tomorrow is
though
What wrong stellefaction?
What wrong two more beer?
What wrong with flowershapes in montage photography?
What wrong a distant planet settled for the manufacture of egg mcmuffins?
What wrong a child,
told for the first time at 18 that his mother loves him
Who'd listen?!
That what wrong.
What wrong the hump and rupture
boys
spitting syllable seeds all over the sad August dugout.
These things I remember as the car turns,
in the air
spinning
spin
it doesn't matter that
I am turning
the wheel or that
she is screaming in slow motion
upside
down
We are
this car,
bound to each other like
life and death inextricable.
And what does it matter
where we was headed?
What wrong not knowing?
We was headed there together, I believe
I believe we was headed there
together.
I think it said honeymoon
but it might have said holiday
I said
Hey let us leave soon.
“Lettuce?” she asked.
“Let us,” I say “pray
I am ready” to go there. My back pack packed.
And so we go, blind
into the night.
I roll-down
the
steam-y
win-dow
and say Joan! I say,
(not her name)
“the darkness sur-
rounds us, go faster!” I say
going a little faster,
the little white car in the big black night.
We were that car and it was us.
It's true. You will become what you are meant to become
and we all become who we are.
Purblind Grotesquery is the title of this poem
about being
in that car,
(where not-seat-belted's an adjective) that night,
too late but better late than
never “aw hell we won't be late for supper the way you're
driving
we'll be late for Christmas!” I say, and take over.
“Let's watch a movie,” she
says. Bobby. Was that her name? She names one.
“I hear it's a good one,” she says. “You'd like it.”
I am Nietzsche's birds, I think. I thought we were going to a hotel, I tell her.
I like it when geese are in season
and at twilight, desperately trying to find a place near
the water to land for the night.
I like the complimentary soap they give you (fine-less) in hotel bathrooms
“Okay for
christ's sake look lettuce watch a movie,” I say.
look
out where yr going! she hollers and
I don't even know when tomorrow is
though
What wrong stellefaction?
What wrong two more beer?
What wrong with flowershapes in montage photography?
What wrong a distant planet settled for the manufacture of egg mcmuffins?
What wrong a child,
told for the first time at 18 that his mother loves him
Who'd listen?!
That what wrong.
What wrong the hump and rupture
boys
spitting syllable seeds all over the sad August dugout.
These things I remember as the car turns,
in the air
spinning
spin
it doesn't matter that
I am turning
the wheel or that
she is screaming in slow motion
upside
down
We are
this car,
bound to each other like
life and death inextricable.
And what does it matter
where we was headed?
What wrong not knowing?
We was headed there together, I believe
I believe we was headed there
together.
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