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littlebirdie  ·  4319 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I'm a crummy poet, but I'm writing a poem a day for 2013

poem for January 8

I keep telling her stories

vaquero, paleteria

search out the insane bits smothered in vintage price tag

anglo New Mexican’t appropriator

they aren’t wrong

gringa

It’s my sun, too

Frozen dust spackles my window corners winds scrape gray clouds against a blunt steel box meant for hauling rodeo steer

I am slick ordinary, plastic Virgin Mary a dim mixing bowl heaped with salted pork

I am twisted white-girl braids hiding calico wrinkles or one upturned sole made of tire-blown rubber

I didn’t want to be Outsider but god pushed me onto a rusty conveyor belt

I rolled past watermelon haze hills

chico, chile

I am rum yellow moths under her medicine light





JakobVirgil  ·  4319 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I blame him for things Aberdeen Key Shop I'm crazy and they do not have the Portuguese wine price Occupied by the British West Indies wrong country freezing wind my window is the pin collar flavor Ground ash carry steelhead Dark material is mixed with the charge Lee mother pig White snake, I went to Tibet from the CD to the fetus pattern cloth plastic Fragmentation with the push of oxygen station send West Branch back, intellectual His medicine root yellow moth