cherry blossom tits. monkey eats grits.
yar! saru tittu san. konnichiwar. jesus desu.
July 2012
41: TO MY MONKEY IN JAPAN →
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girl, i’m so proud of ewe!!!!! seriously. i see you in my mental periphery, you in your (my) peacoat, grabbing shitty itty bitty teeny weeny yellow polka dot bikini freebirds, and you’re spectacular. you’ve got a certain…joie de vivre, je pense, that people are just starting to grow into. and i’m sorry that i was maybe a bit toasted when you called me from the plane, but i’m so incredibly excited/jealous/overzealous for what you’re about to embark upon. this is the beginning of sound and fury, honeysuckle and buying the flowers yourself. trust your instinct, but know when to ask for help (not that you’ll need to). that being said, don’t eat any more chicken. i need my thelonious monk in tip-top shape. let’s go all the way tonight, no regrets, just cats (and definitely breast cancer….once a bitch always a bitch i always say). i’m glad we could touch pie in santa babs, and i know we’ll continue the champagne vampire sham jam band clam crab cockle cowrie very soon.
HEARTS AND FARTS,
DUNKEY
i love you terribly
experiencing this terrible, infantile anxiety about maria leaving.
but i know two girls born from the same star can experience no lapse, no distance. only mortal distance.
I love you. I’m so mixed. No, there won’t be lapse, but I’ll yearn for our reunion, that is, when we recreate the big bang all over the land of the rising sun. Happy Birthday, my girl.
gud jib on the tumby today, marmaduke.
danka, dunkey. it’s all fur yew.
"That Day" Anne Sexton
This is the desk I sit at
and this is the desk where I love you too much
and this is the typewriter that sits before me
where yesterday only your body sat before me
with its shoulders gathered in like a Greek chorus,
with its tongue like a king making up rules as he goes,
with its tongue quite openly like a cat lapping milk,
with its tongue - both of us coiled in its slippery life.
That was yesterday, that day.
That was the day of your tongue,
your tongue that came from your lips,
two openers, half animals, half birds
caught in the doorway of your heart.
That was the day I followed the king’s rules,
passing by your red veins and your blue veins,
my hands down the backbone, down the quick like a firepole,
hands between legs where you display your inner knowledge,
where diamond mines are buried and come forth to bury,
come forth more sudden than some reconstructed city.
It is complete within seconds, that monument.
The blood runs underground yet brings forth a tower.
A multitude should gather for such an edifice.
For a miracle one stands in line and throws confetti.
Surely The Press is here looking for headlines.
Surely someone should carry a banner on the sidewalk.
If a bridge is constructed doesn’t the mayer cut a ribbon?
If a phenomenon arrives shouldn’t the Magi come bearing gifts?
Yesterday was the day I bore gifts for your gift
and came from the valley to meet you on the pavement.
That was yesterday, that day.
That was the day of your face,
your face after love, close to the pillow, a lullaby.
Half asleep beside me letting the old fashioned rocker stop,
our breath became one, became a child-breath together,
while my fingers drew little o’s on your shut eyes,
while my fingers drew little smiles on your mouth,
while I drew I LOVE YOU on your chest and its drummer
and whispered, “Wake up!” and you mumbled in your sleep,
“Sh. We’re driving to Cape Cod. We’re heading for the Bourne
Bridge. We’re circling around the Bourne Circle.” Bourne!
Then I knew you in your dream and prayed of our time
that I would be pierced and you would take root in me
and that I might bring forth your born, might bear
the you or the ghost of you in my little household.
Yesterday I did not want to be borrowed
but this is the typewriter that sits before me
and love is where yesterday is at.
