Abandoned · Lady

TYPE A TYPE B AND THE MILES BETWEEN

Go harangue those modern principles
On a worn fool whose looking for change
I’m well adjusted in my tried routine
And if I seem wanting or young
Then look the other way or arrange
Yourself with some new prescriptions
Try yourself a pair of bifocals
One focal to watch your future
And the other to watch your plans
Conflagrate and blow up in yer face
Your observations are freakin’ lazy
The way you see the world is fucking boring
Try some pleasure with your leisure
There’s nothing worse that doers with
Long term plans and an empty existence-
So go hang those rituals and arduous affairs
Go ruin the present with your path to success
Go swing them from your nipples
Go hang them on an pimple or a feckless camel
I don’t care!
Just get…..

Andrew Boerum

 

NOT ME

white girl growing up
in the fifties stripped
of deciduous & coniferous vitality
homogenous plopped
down like tract houses
on a parched surface
i hugged the bark & pulled
myself up the branches
beyond the giggles of barbie
her unresistant breasts pointing at ken
beyond the lessons from my mother
stuck in her own spotless sludge of suburbia,
stuck in her own jaded morass of traded power --
on the couch with a mystery
white girl hearing
the language of bulldozers
framed in publicpressrelease-ease,
marraigeable marraigeable marraigeable
not me
white girl stick legged can’t
dance or laugh
too loud white gloves and knees
eternally
pressed together
not me
homogenous
goodgirlspeak by rote
not me
how the 50’s clung
to those last whitegirl rules
putrid & false & stinking in starch
before the Pill came imploding
a tired plastic ettiquette
before breasts popped out
of their pointed brassieres
before reefer & janice & angela
breaking free
homogenous
not me
not me
not me

Wendy Shaffer

Abandoned · Lady