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54 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2013
on the way to the ocean, we pick elderberries
all the love i have can fit in an elderberry
someone should have taken away her meekness
my mother
i should have said:
no one has the right to destroy you
all those fuckheads
youre meticulous with your makeup before we leave for the school program
forget it
just forget it
theres no reason to be kind to anyone unkind
forget it
no one has the right to demand that you be kind to the unkind
thomas, his room is small, he has to sit on the edge of the bed
hes just home from iraq
he asks us to smell the sweater he was wearing when he was shot
id rather not have to look at hi. id rather not have to look at you
when we head home dulled by menthol-licorice vodka
tomorrow too we will wake up and be witnesses. helpful. silent
on the way down to the drugstore to buy hair dye.
so we sit at home seeing dead women
maybe hanged in the attic with barbed wire, maybe drenched in honey
then people have to hurry and find the creep who did it before he kills
another woman
and drenches her in honey and has sex with her post-mortem
what the fucks going on
better for people who grew up with violence and sex to turn themselves
into saints and be killed
that way, than for all of us jointly to take on the deeply entrenched
hatred of women
crime shows get off too easy
everyone gets off too easy
crime shows get off too easy
everyone gets off too easy
wish i were named torben and had an easier life
and then i would have stood there totally fucked silly in the 7-eleven
and marveled that i was named torben and that what i was named meant nothing anyway on hot
way wild and the directionlessness would be so obvious
that you walked on hot coals that you werent the boss in your own house
and just as you can want to lick a baby because its totally little
all the love you have, oh dear ive lost my mind
if one more snowflake hits my neck and melts down my back
then ill fucking fuck everyone i see or ill start to cry and never stop
got a card from a woman named livia whos about to turn a hundred
she thinks im named livia and turned seventeen last monday, and she wishes me happy birthday
tanti cari auguri di buon natale the card says
such a joy! no one has their facts straight! everyone has their heads up their ass!
everyone at some point has been so hot and then rested their thighs against rocks that have been in the shade all day
everyone has been so marvelously little