Thursday, February 5, 2009

Lucifer Monistat (from Outtakes from Spoon River Anthology)

I did it for Mine, the woman and My Boys,
Went into the mine I knew
there'd be no returning from.
I strapped myself with the Owner's dyamite,
and took a grilled cheese sandwich
along like a Last Sacrament.

But I hadn't guessed my mind
wasn't done with this funny toss of the dice
called Life, hadn't forseen at the last
I would be tortured with the Unanswered:
What is another name for a madreporite?
Where are Alfred Kinseys children?
What is the niche of an Echidna?
What insects commonly attack a mongifera indica linn plant?


The bitch remarried in three weeks
and sent the Boys to a boarding school back East
turned them all Queer. Every last one of them

bent toe touchers, amateur proctologists, turd curdlers.

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