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God the mother (Free verse) by Dental Panic
God the mother, what was I thinking?
Give the monkey a pound of extra brains
and he will blow the whole thing up -
no, not thát god the mother,
the thunderstormbellied
who has her twilighted son,
beggar for epiphanies,
chocolatemaker, inventor of the electric hairbrush
and the mopedaled shopping trolley,
dig trenches in her wet blanket.
Who wants to have tapwater
taste like blood orange juice
and behind white curtains plays wajang
with upheaval and Untergang.
Oh, oh,
the obstinate resistance
against the Big Him.
So what, what?
Fairy, godmother with her cotton stuffed cheeks
making an epic pledge from which
after years of the trouser pocket itch
not a thing was left. Lost your memory, you said?
Screech, you old crow, scratch and strike out,
this is not the red velvet hall where hundreds of
soulmates, their chosen ass glued to their stool,
shoespoon the words from your mouth. No, bugger,
it's...o well, god the mother from Nasastreet nill,
I just happen to know her in that role.
That's not an excuse, I know.
Even so:
with the mucus of sleep still in your eyes,
shufflin' towards the mailbox on a pair
of non-matching slippers, trippin' over
the sobbing toys of yesterday, a swig
of coffee where in someone smothered
a cigarette and then on a pilgrimage
to the land of the eternal tight butt
is also poetry,
is it not?
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