Friday, November 20, 2009

Sonnet: Lipbalm and Lipblame

There are funny condoms you can buy in Japan. Novels.
There are funny novels people give you in America. Condoms.
There are novels in Germany which are not funny. Not once.
There are novels in Iceland which apologize. For being novels.

Do you think there's still time to reinvent
anticipation? Faking? Anywhere? A seat or book?
Do you think there's still time to reinvent the movies
or is it already all so over? Probably only war left? Right?

I had a dream gay shepherds put their arms around straight sheep

and went to sleep holding them. Just like an ex-wife dying

come back for that slight lip balm, oh the Seth Abramson Afterlife...

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