Wednesday, April 16, 2014

National Poetry Month Day 14: The Manual

Please imagine the first two words being repeated in the background throughout in the same beat as the students dutifully reciting their Latin conjugations in "All That's Known" from Spring Awakening. Or don't, I'm not here to tell you what to do.

Horse.
Cart.
Horse.
Cart.
Horse.
Cart.
Horse.
Poster strudel house by Hostess
What are you, some kind of booze hound stenosis?
Glass table natal, acoustic meatal
Echo farm to cradle
Lined up between Tatum Channing & Peyton Manning
Out of context monks chanting
King!
Nut!king
King!
Nut!nut
King!nut
Nut!
King!king
Nut!
NUT!
Gender image Peters Bering Straight
Cigarette butt
Magistrate
In your Teach For America jorts
With your
Smoke when you
Drink for America Cohorts
And these children you don't spit on
From your dry mouth and rope butt
They won't hang out with you either
Cart.
Horse.
Cart.
Horse.
Cart.
Every night a ghost
Tugs your riverbed tether
And you don't know what it is
But it holds you together
Horse.
Cart.
Horse.
Cart.
Horse.
Cart.

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