were you to die
I would do everything I could
to hold onto them
the twins
and I need to believe that
the way I need to believe
in the certainty of Spring
Tag: Children
his chest swelled american
as he boundfully boasted
that he could take me
for a tour
of miles and miles
of land
as it was 500 years ago
as yet untouched
unburdened by even one
power line
to which i responded
by reminding him
i’m from kentucky
when you come from having nothing
a place with nothing
holds no fascination
you can’t feed your children
on wildflowers
and living in
closer proximity
to the stars
my sons
are the only true love
i’ve ever felt
in my adult life
i don’t know what men are for
but violence
screaming
dying of tobacco field wars
raping the women and land for money
ernest hemingway shooting sharks in the ocean
with a gun
his bloody plume only attracting more
and walking out elaborately carved
revolving doors
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my mind wanders through my family
my mind wanders through my family
.
circus giants
painters
prophets
preachers
and banjo pickers
.
drunken philosophers
piano players
poets
indian chiefs and their princesses
.
marauding cavalry-men
coal miners
deuling fiddlers
honky tonk singers
and moonshiners
.
beauty queens
saloon whores
tobacco men
horse tycoons
cowboys and cowgirls
jockeys
and politicians
.
morticians and go-go dancers
.
suitcase of a son lost at sea
full of bonds
that arrived home
decades after the world war died
.
seamstresses
cheerleaders
medicine women
pipe smoking farmers
cedar carpenters
ballerinas
and race car drivers
.
my mind wanders through my family
over Kentucky red clay
and unspoken magic
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things you cannot write
i don’t regret hurting you
i do regret knowing you
you’re the reason why our kids are ugly
i don’t care for the ginsberg poem
i’m not hung up on living past forty
i enjoy a big piece of meat in all forms
i think all poetry should be free verse
vanilla should be outlawed
marijuana should be legal
rapists and pedophiles and corrupt bankers should be executed
incendiary is good
i don’t give a fuck about my cholesterol
the government should forget everything they’re doing and begin again
people should throw out their child’s video game system while they still have some semblance of a soul
put a book in your child’s hands so they read it and learn empathy
take a walk every day
own a dog
be marvelously kind even when you don’t feel like it
liquor is good
sex is good
shut up and listen regularly
.
.
i’m falling in love with you
.
.
reality tv should end
abortions should be free and considered an act of mercy
women should be paid equally
water should be cherished
insurance companies should be banished
men should not be bashed for having balls
national healthcare need be implemented
all weapons should be melted into a temple built to honor peace
dance to music daily
religion should be do it yourself