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blogsome is closing down
scrubbing of the brain
scraping off of last week’s crap
fresh head for new week
klf
November 25, 2011
May 16, 2011
hopeful monday
December 24, 2010
Christmas Eve Eve
they’re out of egg nog
no holiday drinks tonight
the hipsters are sad
klf
November 3, 2010
one scary night
off year election
they want their government back
tea bags in the sink
klf
May 24, 2010
funeral for a young man
tony
so many of those little black
dresses came to your funeral
i don’t think they’d known death
in this way before
i thought about
how many of those cocktail dresses
you must have pillaged
and i couldn’t remember
if it was three
or only two women
whom you’d gotten pregnant
within a few months —
of all the young men
driving their jeeps
through the nineties
you were the most
LIVE
rocking back and kicking
both feet against the constraints
of this world —
this priest has no conviction
in the dry gravel of his voice
and i have trouble
believing
that you’re folded in the great mother’s wings
until your father tells us
that he asked for a sign
and on the bridge
he found the laminated picture
of the saint who watches over departed souls —
tony
i can’t imagine
you in heaven
where all the spirits
are quiet and well-behaved
i don’t know
where someone who is two hundred
percent alive
goes
when they leave this place;
maybe you’re on your way back
right now
slipping inside the body forming
of a wild colt
getting ready to kick back up
onto your feet again
wendy shaffer
