poetry by (the)Doug

Saturday, March 17, 2007

Art Officially

In the December of my youth,

I fucked a giraffe

when my parents weren’t looking

(when were they ever?);

it tasted like chicken.

I once paid two dozen duckets

for a Stan Yerkes baseball card.

It was only worth one ducket, at most,

but I walked around like God Rockefella himself

for weeks after that.

Theresa has bulges you wouldn’t believe.

She’s got a fly’s life and only complains

when the cat food is stale.

I’d marry Theresa, but she reminds me of nuns.

And I, last time I checked, am

not Jesus, nor even Jesus-like.

I’ve got a belly full of shoes.

My paintings won’t sell anymore.

Inevitability is the only thing that haunts me.

That

and all the different kinds of knots.

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