Wednesday, July 15, 2009

sympathy of the jealous breed


it is releasing to

realize that

writing from the

gut is a metaphor, there

is no central part of the stomach

connected to the largest vein of the

body that

doubles as poem factory, a foster

home for the poor orphaned poems

you know the ones, their father’s

beat them, brothers sucked them,

sisters dressed them.

this place in the body just holds

the beer that benefactors

poems, it is the recovery center

for damaged poems from

damaged poets where the medicine goes down

nine bottles before it comes up

in this place, acid

re-filters, files-down, processes

scenes they’ve seen, and the poor

bastards are forced to tread

back to

the orphanage,

the additives,

their understanding of a

pre-poem world.

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