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A Cargo of Green Hearts
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09/26/2019

9/26/2019

 
you came, as always
loaded for bear
full of jack-knives
and shin kicks
but I liked your
pretty dimple
and you said kind
things to me once
that I still half
believe, even as the
lights go out
and I crawl around
in the dark looking
for my eyes. I had
hair then, and a face
and I believed in
things as strange
as purple cows
or the benevolence
of space aliens
love, too, seemed
strangely believable
as if it were something
you could order seeds
for and grow.
a rake leans crookedly
in the garden now
and the sea is
a light year away.
heart, I am sorry--
Durga said these
things would happen
she said,
"hold onto your shins
and save a little bit of
yourself for me."

No Disdain

9/25/2019

 
​I have no disdain
for anyone really
except maybe for
a few politicians
whom I don't know
personally and if
I did might find them
not unlike myself
were I also excruciated
with power
nor do I have disdain
for animals or the sun
or sharp stones.
bad food maybe, but
not for those who
toil to cook it
even the smokestacks
which are ugly
but make me think
of minarets or the tower
that was built to reach
God, so that God could
be kissed and made real--
a god they claimed
frowned upon us.
No, I have little heart
for disdain, but in
that littleness, there
I sit, a little self of me
wringing its sad hands
and cursing the
heart as a prison
and the blood as venom--
my blood. my heart.

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