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In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid.
I started writing when I was about thirteen.
And you you
bitch no irritating
questions re love and permanence only
an unrolling lifetime here
between your rocking thighs
and the semblance of motion
At a certain age you're always uncertain how other people will take you.
I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world.
Seeing the sky darken & the fields
turn brown & the lake lead-grey
as some enormous scrap of sheet metal
& wind grabs the world around the equator
I am most thankful then for knowing about
the little gold hairs on your belly
(My dove my little one
tonight there will be wine and drunken suitors
from the logging camps to pin you down
in the outlying lands of sleep
where all roads lead back to the home-village
and water may be walked on)
I don't mind a bit being labelled a suicide.
- so much like riding dangerous women
with whiskey coloured eyes -
such women as once fell dead with their lovers
with fire in their heads and slippery froth on thighs
Things were so bad we ate rabbits that neighbours had run over and gave to us because they knew we were broke.
I'm not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense.
I don't think I do have a soul.
