1.
Coffee is vulgar and dim
Topped with a sebaceous flim
How tempting, yet vile,
To withdraw for a while--
consumation performed on a whim.
2.
Heartless, eyeless, you, dear friend
Are causing my young mind to bend.
Blind by choice, teeth on edge,
You drove me to my little ledge.
Looking slightly over,
I regret you as my lover.
Glaring towards the sun, I hate;
I lean against the wall, and wait.
3.
Twigs cross-stripe the row
Perpindicular to fence,
Surly neighbor's gift.
4.
The dead bird in the skimmer of the pool
was taken out by my grandmother this morning
before the children she babysits came over to swim.
* * *
The fledgling, spun in chlorinated eddies in the drain,
was removed with forefinger and thumb by a woman
who knew what it was to bear life - and see it buried in her lifetime.
She gave the glistening corpus, with red-orange breast
and black specks fading to dark feathers, to
a dog hungry for chewthings,
and scrubbed the algae-dusted floor of the pool.
She would not tell the children about
the bird, and sat down for a moment in the heat,
taking a sip of her cola; her hands were still
wet from reaching into the water to grasp the bony
legs of the victim.
5.
D is a beautiful letter,
gilding what I want to say,
as in "Don't bother me" and "David,"
though neither "I love you" nor "Go away."
6.
WpimiHg PucciaH:
WpimiHg PucciaH Kurcive
Makec eHgliw WpitiHg Worcive
DecifepiHg Advepcif
AHd pHyMiHg iMpoccible (but not ble)