Monday, May 04, 2020

the poet


“… the fact that the film presents extreme closeups
Of the genitals in function” made
All the stags grin monomaniacal. One became
a poet and taught the trade. In the flicker
Of his stag film eyes
what was I and I
- genitals in function in extreme closeup
underneath my underneath.
“But I guess they’re really young, and they always look beautiful”
Somebody said to somebody as I carried the party
Home on my back, like Aeneas carrying his daddy.
- Karen Chamisso

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