Wednesday, October 28, 2009

footnotes

gin and rosewater sold out quickly

so we don't have that here we have

everything but not that although

our tissues come in mint (but cost it too);


which amounts for the

thirty i lost in the mountains

and the look in that dog’s eyes saying

really? this person again? really? karlan help;


and all the ends died and fringe is out (subtlety in) as

we greet them with a song (etc) and with

the watercolors i brought while

forgetting hunting clothes of both kinds;


also i have a history of choosing

weather-inappropriate shoes

and a tendency to pick death

(metaphorically) over liberty,


like bartleby the freaking scrivener

or people who turn into beetles and

don’t even make it into their own stories’ footnotes;

WHAT COULD CAUSE THIS TO HAPPEN

2 comments:

Coweh said...

this went completely over my head but i know some of it's about me and it's super fun to read but also sad? maybe? halp?

Ianthe Wilde said...

i was about to come and say you hadn't written a poem in ages but then you had! and it was good! though elusive.