Everything's Kosher

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May 8, 2007 / 10:24 pm

What is 15 days in the span of a lifetime?
I asked and answered myself with
Not much.
He repeated, "Not much."
While I'm gone I'll miss the
Nightly mind molestation from
One Mister Art Bell,
I'm east of the Rockies,
Just to be clear.
First time caller, wanting
To tell a story about how
I got here. He hangs up.
Wrong line, Missy. And this
Isn't one of those shows,
Don'tchaknow. We're talking
About a two-mile-across
Island made of condoms
Located somewhere in the
Pacific tonight so call back
On the right line on
Another night. I don't need
Your shouldacouldawoulda.
East of the Rockies...
Where are you? Vince to maintenance...
I don't know what I'm talking about...
What is 15 days? 360 hours.
Full circle. Time telling me that
I'll be back where I started
Even if I get kicked along the way.
Don't be nervous, I'll treat you good.
W***e says to a virgin.
Virgin says... oh that's an old joke.
You're not as tall as I thought you'd be.
A phrase never said to me but thought
By me at least weekly and I wonder
Who wants math and who wants poetry?
Is the symmetry of the body a map
Of the soul and if it is can you
Tell me where I go from here? Up
Or down, side to side. I just gotta know.
Dancing from foot to foot like a kid
Who's gotta pee. Tell me.
I asked you to pay me in kindness.
Card declined, insufficient funds.
That's a debt you're going to pay
Back. Interest compounding at
Exponential rates because here,
At the Bank of Val, rates never
Decrease and smiles never cease.
Soul in my pocket keeps me warm.
It's on loan. Return it when indifference
Comes to play. But today is not that
Day. The point is that what's in
My pocket gives me strength and
With that strength comes knowledge.
I live on both sides of the fence
And the grass is exactly the same
Everywhere you go. I'm just a
Girl who was in the right place
At the right time. Lucky that way.
Sadness comes in three's. Paid
Into that karma account and now
Comes the payoff. Living well is
Revenge in itself, personified and
Thriving in the light. Accepted
By society. No flaunting needed.
It's a dancing girl in the limelight.
What am I saying? What is 15 days
In the span of a lifetime? Not much.
Not much.


 

Reviews

[Logan Carryall]

Three's. It certainly does terrorize me. Three things to kill the day, however the universe sorts the filing for s**t, its got three zip codes with the same address.

You have so much gravity in this piece. What is fifteen days? Everything and nothing, explosions on life, to compare the fifteen almost as if years. To say that in fifteen you know, or elaborate, as much then as years more, or less. And less is more! And I see a lot of honesty in your style. That kind of flow narrows on the impossible, and you had it held up like a giant, until the end. I thought when you slowed the flow in favor of the simplistic-sum-it-up conclusions towards the end (which I get, how you expanded the world and collapsed it as quickly) destroyed the humor-like movement of the piece. Slapstick to flypaper. You absolutly had me in the beginning however, with your shouldacouldawoulda east of the rockies, which was absolutly perfect. Beautiful piece.

I look forward to more of this!

[Crazy Cat Man]

Im definitely becoming a fan of your work.....this piece reminds me of the Lily Allen song "LDN" which he happily sings about the messed up things in life but it still upbeat....i guess we have to be that way to survive :)

[jesthepoet]

I may have commented on this poem before, but it's worth repeating. Absolutely brilliant writing! I really love your poetry.

[BjH]

"Dancing from foot to foot like a kid
Who's gotta pee. Tell me."

only a few could fit this into a poem and survive

love the title

bjh