The Miser(ables)
A fat(ter) girl
boards the tour bus
wearing her “University Hot Stuff” tee and
suddenly my shoes are
miserable
The country Frenchman
shoves his
Mickey-hat(ted) daughter and suddenly I
ha(te) him and mut(ter)
something more miserable
Being the gut(ter)
girl, the guttural listener is all la la hmmm Napoleon la la
mercy hmmm
Yes, thrilled to be
your spokeswo(man),
America, no I’m being facetious, I’m still
miserable, more so
now than before
I say, dear sir,
please step away from
the window, France does not want to see
your wiener
**
Ours Alone
our udders bare, our
udders bad, our
misunderstanding
who's the cow and who's for free?
I got your invisible
thread, I got it
right through here
BAHHHH, that's one fucked frequency you
got
and I got your
throwaway phrase
kissing, wow, makes me feel downtown
that little
possibility lovers stopped
negotiating
here's where the barnyard ends
so tired, scratching
words, sad sad
devils
all I wanted, surprise, surmise,
circumcised
***
The Spirit
to Adopt
She
thought she was going to die, he
never returned
her messages, but eventually he did and
by then
she remembered he was a cowardly moral
relativist
and all she wanted was witty banter
fucking.