120 VII
Pobrecillo Tam
‘Only I do not like the fashion of your garments. You will say they are Persian attire, but let them be changed.’ – Shakespeare, King Lear III. vi.
raise yr gme said my friend lucky in love since going online to learn moves that lead from geek to playa. go to the big baldwin city; life’s laid out like yr sister’s tea set that time she spilled the milk & didn’t cry for a real melting knife. chamoised my head & was going, radiant as a hermit’s cave in cappadocia; fled Him & my other dogs & wallpapered my sister’s braced smile in carious photographs. well caramel you can cross, pass, shoot for the stars, scrape sky for a living but don’t hang yr washing from the window – the old man doesn’t like it; & see that tree? it translates spring will bring again bread stone scorpion to hand; always afternoon if once you stand in His light. i prayed for lift-off & became a little horse shadowed by an always car; i prayed for inside, needed shadow like a crown on my head, lived off foods composed of substitutions. Lady of situations, i pray for liftoff, tailoring my head & bust to rise above this city of unkadare nature, pushkin types, fatalistic pedestrians who’re at the start of my game, who’re my true loves, if only their hearts were Gabriel, & not being borgesed to death staying off the drive-by streets, mummified in the seven sealed orifices firstnamed home.