Friday, February 27, 2009

AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH IN OIL & VINEGAR

I’m sitting on top of a mile-high stack of books

a lot of gray up here

but the flies are few

I can say stuff like now is the whimper of my discontent

in a self-contradictory and dead language kind of way

like a gorgeous woman named Agatha

which sounds like you’ve got something stuck in your throat

Heimlich

the height of modernity and the depth of inanity coming together

like last week when my fishmonger and I

got involved in a heated discussion

about the derivation and usage of the term scrod

on cell phones

fortunately I had my suspenders on that day

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