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mia culpa, mia miasma

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December 3, 2012
~seeyouinjune demonstrates mastery of rhyme in mia culpa, mia miasma.
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I'm still counting chromosomes and odd numbers
still playing hopscotch over the symmetry
of your shoulder blades, your whispers
skipping 'cross the seventy percent water
the one forty proof rum, still running
running sheep
until we can sleep,
we,
that thing they called relationship
something common, like counting
rocks at the bottom of a wishing well.
I am slipping through, sliding into
a seamless cervix, and she's serving
throat lozenges in the mean time,
mean time and mean country
serving time in this union, this marriage,
they served cough and coffee
held the Capricorn, held up the register
held the infant to the sagging bosom of  
Hollywood and serfdom and surplus
as the nagging empress struts her new clothing
on the turnpikes of Mulholland Drive.
can you feel the elasticity of time as sleep approaches
as the veal spills over red royal carpet
like tumbleweed's of lamb chops rolling 'round
Rockefeller's city center.
so shed dead skin
and skim the film of old money
see my teeth smiling grease and gridlock
toothpaste pavement and dental floss shoelace
brush the tarmac, brush the venison
from the enamel of your animal.
you are an animal.
some thing
of me
for free.

see,
I can write
rhyming
poetry.
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dialtonepoetry's avatar
Fantastic imagery and beautiful flow! I love saying this poem out loud.
Congrats on the DD! Very well deserved! :D

(And personally, I don't know what ~magdalenamariposa is talking about... This is great.)