Tuesday, September 8, 2009
me rambling like there's no tomorrow
my daughter's birthday
my womb started beating fraud-u-lence-is-wait-ing when the orchestra drove ivory piano keys into me and so vivaldi birthed my daughter wet and gifted spiritually, she was born restless, with obsession and depression, her trials were ritual sadness locked up in rib cage cabinet, she was a death threat and potential mess.
my daughter was born in november with an archers wound and consistency to surrender, she was peeled out of scabs from her torso, my daughter breathed little and extended fingertips to suffrage but my daughter had no soul, she was born in november, topaz toothaches, emotional disconnection, lies before truth was made, my daughter was born on her knees forgetting which words spelled out forgiveness and tried to please people with kindness, but my daughter was inevitably soulless. she shunned off the violin strings she used to strangle me and plucked my money ‘til harmonics ran smoothly.
my daughter took my picture one day in spring time, she told me my bones were perfect, that she’d inherited my jaw line and my daughter wrote love letters to suicide, wanted to be famous on the other side.
my daughter was born in november during down pours of her favorite weather, she was a caretaker for nothing and couldn’t memorize a poem, my daughter was a writer, she tried to tell a story, my daughter was born in november she was always paranoid, she felt too old in the winter, too young in the summer, she wanted to be trained classically but couldn’t withstand the notes and keys. my daughter only felt self loathing when her hands were too dirty for holding, my daughter was born in november and i don’t even remember her.
Sunday, September 6, 2009
stop sweatin' me, sun
Sept 6 – trans man? Not sure – w4m – (castro / upper market)
I’ve been looking for you since before my thoughts had been conceived, since before confession had been forced on me, I’ve been looking for you. I’ve been looking for you under prayer shawls and in the ink blotches spilling verses of the Qur’an. Looking for you in the eastern sky where wise men be seeing you, but not i. I’ve been looking for you in the Torah’s Ark and in 78 cards of t-a-r-o-t, been searching you out like Tibetan hills and meditation rituals. And God, I think I finally ran into you waiting for the 33 on 18th street, you were looking pretty worn out, you were looking pretty much post-surgery, but my eyes can easily deceive me. I was too scared to ask for your number, but you gave me the feeling you were a bio woman in God’s clothing. So maybe we could grab a cup of coffee? Because, God, I’ve got some questions that really need answering.
your whiskey dick leaves me helpless
I’m begging you to,
please write me a love poem
where your words aren’t clouded over by subtle line breaks
and you don’t whisper my name in vein,
like shooting poison down to guessing
and I can’t make these gravestones fit
but you know me,
I’d make them rise if you’d wake with me,
if you’d look at stars and see woven truth with me,
let the life lines of our palms spawn gentle chemistry
just write me a love poem, baby,
please include thoughts
like how you wear my heart on
your collarbone
and my words pierce your nipples like sex does
and maybe interplanetary combustion gets your engine revving,
I just want to hear you speak it
Like you know it
Like it flows through you
Like pages and pages of chicken scratch note book
Scattering like wind chimes
Reading like children’s rhymes
like when they were first writing the words of the bible
On parchment
It scratches skin so deep
jesus keeps crying
and he’s wondering why these words reflect demons
and not hymn
and why god the father wasn’t there to teach him
to throw a
baseball
or ride a
bicycle
just taught him
suffering
like being lonely wasn’t enough
and I know that you know what I’m saying
But you ain’t dead yet
You got years that pool ponds of memories
That I’ve already thought of
But haven’t shared yet
And I know your religion is scattered on your left arm
So raise it to heaven
Without pleading for forgiveness
And write me a love poem
In the language of your people
In the tone of voice you sleep with
In the tone of voice that he’s everything you’d ever dreamed with
To be with
And see with
He’s got tan skin
To protect the bones you got caged in
And like I said
jesus
spent some time suffering
Begging his father to just forgive them,
They know not what they do
And I know these days you feel like him
And I see that your arms are stretched
Against plywood and you’re nailed to it
And I know you think that no one knows
What your deal with the rosary is
But I think that I get it.
I want you to just write me a love poem, angel
Starting with
“You complete me,
You’re everything I want to be”
I want to hear you spit it on dirty cement pages
Just do it
Thinking clearly
I’m nearly
Your lover in some other
Body
Of Christ and of poetry
Where we can tie religion in like shoestrings
And I’ve strung, you to me,
So write me a love poem, baby,
And tell me what you’re feeling
Because I’m missing your words like bible study
And miracles that make you saintly
And I’m just waiting
To hear whatever type of poem you want to write, baby
I’m just waiting.
