Sandra Simonds/The Tar Pit Diatoms/11


Ich am of Irlonde.
Yeah? What-e-vah. One cosmo—
naut down—9,000,000 more to go.
Mayhem is mayday’s maiden name when
we married it was a batch of pumpkin
spice cookies? no, corn nuts “con limon”….
…the store where you bought chicken necks?
no, one Angelino’s screwed-
up Scientology.


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                 Ich am of Inglewood
                territorial bit-bulls
                overpass after overpass
                but this is “too conversational”
                like down syndrome kid’s duh duh duh duh love.
                Andy, there goes NOLA, and Oakland,
                Missoula, even Albany
                calls from a phone booth of snow
                says I’m drawing your eye.

                                Wild blue yonder mammoth
                                of dawn stuck in a Tar Pit
                                Museum (Mid-Wilshire /3rd grade/
                                school trip/ jay’s snot fingers on my cheek)
                                Will you draw Sophie and Louise as well?
                                Marijuana groves the school bus goes.
                                I’ll catch you later. Help you soon.
                                Go in the “mellow” autumn?
                                Dance with me… Irlonde

 
 
 
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