a screw turns
girl flaps her skirts around like curtains
a baby blows punches the window of a doll house
acting like god
find oneself holding a can
after it has been finished and crushed
and is leaking left-over soda
find oneself winking at the wrong person
find oneself with an erection at the workplace
screw turns tighter, deeper
a man with a made up white face peeks out of the curtains
the baby has pooped in his diaper
find oneself listening to chicago, then meat loaf
and then laying in bed
find oneself wearing american apparel jeans
and thinking, 'this is a stupid color'
find oneself having eaten a hot dog with macaroni and ketchup
find oneself trying to 'find myself'
find oneself thinking of when they kept their clothes
and their book in a plastic bag and walked to work
not realizing they were weird until now
wood splinters around the metal rod
the man wraps the curtains around his body like a cloak
the baby is rolling around, squashing the poop-filled diaper
into different shapes
finding oneself with something purple or brown
wrapped around you like a globe on a mountain
wondering what a vagina would look like "unfurled"
wondering if it could get sucked away like measuring tape
2 comments:
"the baby is rolling around, squashing the poop-filled diaper into different shapes"
hilarious!
i was at a baby shower once where one of the "games" was to guess what kind of candy bar (and there were about a dozen different kinds used, all told, and gosh i wish i could remember what some of them were because some of them were "obscure") had been microwaved, and therefore all gooey and squashy and poopy-shapey) inside a disposable diaper
the visuals alone were hilarious, but to figure out what kind of candy bar it was in each diaper there was also a lot of picking and poking and smelling and tasting
and each guest had to try to identify them all, and whoever got the most correct won!
i like your poem very much
oops. left out a " ( " between "microwaved," and "and"
i loves to edit
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