TUESDAY'S BRIDE
I can see taking Monday off too
to get yourself psyched up
and turn the whole thing into
a long weekend
You owe yourself that much
having bought your own ring
then convinced your mother somehow
this guy was a spectacular catch
After all her years of worry
that you might die uncleansed of sin
or abandoned just as she was
there is now a measure of relief
In the iPhone pictures taken
outside the City Hall chapel
you smile on a Tuesday like it's a Friday
your snared husband is all nerves and sweat
Your mother looks the most frightened
but not by this more by life in general
she is genuinely happy inside
that you are not yet showing
I can see taking Monday off too
to get yourself psyched up
and turn the whole thing into
a long weekend
You owe yourself that much
having bought your own ring
then convinced your mother somehow
this guy was a spectacular catch
After all her years of worry
that you might die uncleansed of sin
or abandoned just as she was
there is now a measure of relief
In the iPhone pictures taken
outside the City Hall chapel
you smile on a Tuesday like it's a Friday
your snared husband is all nerves and sweat
Your mother looks the most frightened
but not by this more by life in general
she is genuinely happy inside
that you are not yet showing
* * *
YOU THINK THAT IT IS A SECRET BUT IT NEVER HAS BEEN ONE
The fortune cookie thinks
you need to be punished
for years of "in bed" codas
If you came to see the sea
well the water's closed today
and tomorrow too possibly
There is an office killer loose
crouched near the fax machine
some people call her boss
I'm a monsieur for hire
I'll give you French attitude
out the ass all day long
How many times have you
wandered beneath the dark
only to emerge into darker?
* * *
THEIR WILL HEARD BY THE WORLD
No I was full and nobody
for all with a sigh
"It will be nice."
They didn't mean anything
tying up a gay, prancing
ponderous God
seen always trotting along
tired not caring
what happened to me
in this world I feel
that going through
whatever happens
some in society knew
how I feel with God
contempt
my spirit didn't consider
the matter at all
I feel sure like that
it settled here
a few years ago
and has been its own
ever since the street
spread out and mothers
here go hovering
to the fourth generation
lots of young boys scramble
out of the nests
go off and decide
to grow up their will
heard by the world
* * *
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