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'warning: poss trig' (a poem)

Posted by badhaircut on January 30, 2005, at 15:06:26

'warning: poss trig'

someone should have warned me.
so careless, such bad etiquette.
you're supposed to warn people
if there's blood or torture or self-harm.
also intentional humiliation
inflicted by a stranger with perfect teeth.
there's supposed to be a caution line:
blood, teeth, disrespect!

and the ruin of a dream is worse than blood.
double double **poss trig** for that.
they won't archive a violent post,
but I tow my dying dreams behind me
like a cheval mirror on a sled.
the strings that pull the sled
are poked through my abdomen
with fishhooks.
where is the site administrator?

content like that; it's inexcusable.
there's supposed to be a notice.
trailing clouds of glory
I would have turned around.
probably.

maybe I would not have turned around,
but at least it would be my choice.
someone should have warned me!

oh wait. I just remembered.
my father leaning down to my mother's swollen belly
that glorious bright winter day, whispered,
exactly one life ago today,
whispered, "warning: poss trig"


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