Maxine

[lazarus]

an oblique conclusion, but somehow it fits the subject...


MAXINE

maxine bought a vaccine
to form a bastion against the world's ills
she popped her purple pills
shot her needle through
innoculating on her back door

the clothespins collected
for rainy day laundry,
she writes her name in window fog
backwards so the spies can see
this alma mata hari,
finished with the school that finished her
from the book-balance head
to the formal feet
and in between is a cream of wheat
thick and cooling fast

organizing drawers between snores
and bedsores
well-worn carpeted steps
crickets in the joints of the wood
curtains and sheets in cheesecloth tatters

soon she is a remedy;
spoonful of tongue and silver spit,
mix with her and spin away
miles of lazy homebound days,
together make towers of popsicle sticks
houses of cards by the yards
unkept and jaundiced tumult on the green;
for you it's unfiltered bliss;
this replay scene routine

her pyre pushed out to sea
burnt out in the middle
where no one witnesses
the last stand against thought and action--
a goodnight tidepool dream.

 

[Sicy]

I like it

 

[pax]

Oh, Laz, that's really great.

 

[ZeroDude]

It's kickass my man, kickass indeed

 

[For Honor]

That was something else....

That was one of those that gets you thinking about it, and while you are thinking, something else comes along, but you still want to think about the first thing, and it;s like you want to read it again before you're done


And it;s a secular thing - like you just want to understand it so that you can take it all in.....



"organizing drawers between snores
and bedsores"

that caught my eye