April 15th
GOLDFISH GIRL
hey!
goldfish girl!
will you never learn
look a rock
look a rock
look a rock
look another glass of wine
and then another
don't you remember
what you said last night
about the need
to stop
another bottle
and a lovely glass
no need to ask
about the consequences
until
the numbers roll around
to half-past three
inexorably
and there you are
again
old goldfish girl
gasping flailing promising
to change
to act your age
to turn the page
to show some brain.
February 27th we are watching the war on television as if it were a show baby faces crying parents brothers sisters dying starving we are watching while we fork through gourmet dinners that we learned
O, Febfast, Febfast not so fast especially in a leap year you think at 14 you’re halfway but no no no it’s halfway plus another day it’s good it’s bad it’s what it is a fad to drive me mad with longin
The King birthday of the king no, not the one from Nazareth although that’s quite a thing El-vez The Pres soundtrack of my skinny, bony youth he might’ve been before I found the truth in Shadows and t