Saturday, July 4, 2009

Gather Your Cartoon Rabbits Around You

This poem is not a product.

They had the same problem
with the poison apple

that was not a cartoon,
the suicide not a television movie,

the poet who was not
an Evil Queen holding

a cartoon apple

out, in a withered hand
towards the audience,

the poet who was not suicidal,
who was not a cartoon

jaundiced beautifully
by unreality,

Sylvia Plath or Disney,

the diva poet

who insisted on the glass coffin

anyway, just like Michael Jackson.

Waiting. The poem apparently

just like Michael Jackson,

asleep in a deceptive transparency.


Still waiting today. Royally gay.

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