Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Kelley Jean White- Three Poems


Anaconda Gets Radiation For Cancer At Penn
 
Sir Mix-A-Lot, a snake from the Brandywine Zoo
has taken 14 Iraqi squirrels into custody:
“These squirrels were equipped by foreign intelligence services”
“Whew, at least they haven’t found the hamsters yet!”
 
It’s also got lots of vultures, and that’s a hard sell,
older than the opposable thumb, the literacy of sheep
and causing various illnesses: “it could make an excellent
bird-watching bed-and-breakfast establishment.”
 
Vultures are protected by the federal government from
harassment or destruction, the wondrous diction
of sparrows: using potatoes and chocolate as bait
a porcupine population explosion posed a security risk
 
for polluting their well, scaring their children--
apart from the vultures the house needs some work
such as new windows, doors, siding, and a new septic system
to catch dozens of porcupines that have been chewing
 
through garden hoses and saplings using a snake
bought over the internet which turned out to be
a man-eating python: “I. . .had been told a royal python made
a really good starter snake.” Singapore family’s toilet snake ordeal:
 
I had a really dangerous animal three days later in my home
 “I won’t be buying anymore animals over the internet again.”
As well as obesity reduction and prevention programs
It can certainly be aggressive and would have a try at eating the family dog,
 
dogs who were trained to go and sniff out bombs in world war II
destroyed by the counter culture of gangster rap--
we do this to show them they are loved and cared for
what people have to understand is that zone one was the only zone:
 
he actually had the world’s biggest python species,
we do this to keep kids out of prison.

 
 
Uranus Has No Diamonds After All
 
When the white dwarfs are young and hot
They compress carbon into diamonds
A brightness to themselves but
They’ll be languishing by summer’s end
 
It simply is not possible to exist around other stars
When the white dwarfs are young and hot
The surfaces of dense stellar corpses are
A brightness unto themselves but
 
There are white dwarfs with diamond cores
It is simply not possible to exist around other stars
The past energy of a roomful of soldiers
The surfaces of dense stellar corpses are
 
A magical wedding day, a moon-sized crystal
There are white dwarfs with diamond cores
To head off to Europe to create wedding bells
The past energy of a roomful of soldiers
 
We will be sure to send you photos of our wedding
A magical wedding day, a moon-sized crystal
We love them more than we love money-lending
To head off to Europe to create wedding bells
 
As far as we can judge from these calculations
We will be sure to send you photos of our wedding
Don’t send a rocket out to these stars’ invitations
We love them more than we love money-lending
 
It’s very hard to get something off a white dwarf
As far as we can judge from these calculations
If you’re not paying attention it’s easy to miss spirits
Don’t send a rocket out to these stars’ invitations
 
His star traversed his spare economy
It’s very hard to get something of a white dwarf
Perhaps the Imam will use UFOs to attack his enemies
If you’re not paying attention it’s easy to miss spirits
 
They compress carbon into diamonds
His star traversed his spare economy
A brightness to themselves but
Perhaps the Imam will use UFOs to attack his enemies
 
 
 
There ought to be a law:
 
Tyrone’s mother sucks
her thumb in the waiting room.
He is eleven.
She is twenty-two.
 

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