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Author: MOSS, THYLIAS Matches Found: 200 Moss, Thylias Poet's Biography 200 poems available by this author A RECONSIDERATION OF THE BLACKBIRD Poem Text First Line: Let's call him jim crow Subject(s): Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry ACCESSIBLE HEAVEN First Line: You remember being bathed Last Line: That stays with you %all afternoon ADVERSARY First Line: I could understand god's keeping satan Last Line: Who is the original uncle tom ADVICE First Line: Do not write about the holocaust Last Line: In time to begin to know something else AFTER READING BELOVED First Line: It's just a question of when Last Line: The hammers forcing in nails slightly rounded like her nipples AFTERNOON NAP First Line: Ansted fits both ways in his crib Last Line: In the right hands ALL IS NOT LOST WHEN DREAMS ARE Poem Text First Line: The dreams float like votive lilies Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares ALL IS NOT LOST WHEN DREAMS ARE First Line: The dreams float like votive lilies %then melt Last Line: When it's broiled %the titanic is the one that got away ALMOST AN ODE TO THE WEST INDIAN MANATEE First Line: When james balog had said her snout was soft as deerskin Last Line: Into a crown as they enter, then settling %as if they never existed ALTERNATIVES FOR A CELEBATE DAUGHTER First Line: This man is going to die without telling me Last Line: A final pink breath AMBITION First Line: The boy says his father wants to be a smurf Last Line: Now that the father wants his identity based on %something the son understands Subject(s): Ambition; Fathers; Marriage; Mothers; Secrets AN ANOINTING Poem Text First Line: Boys have to slash their fingers to become brothers. Girls Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States ANOINTING First Line: Boys have to slash their fingers to become brothers. Girls Last Line: The katabatic action begins. Molly down my canal binnacle first, her %water breaking in me like an a Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States ANT FARM First Line: One summer day %I took a kettle of steaming water and flooded an ant hill Last Line: Ants were farmed just to purge APOSTLE'S WIFE First Line: Public hair greyed into cobwebs, a gift Last Line: Are wider than a chance of return APPROACHING VENUS' FLYTRAP DURING A HUNGARIAN FILM: SUBTITLE First Line: I assume hunger motivates the plant Last Line: That the subtitles are lies and necessry BACK TO THE HYENA Poem Text First Line: I should go back because the spotted animal Last Line: And being a nun didn't save me Subject(s): Hyenas BACK TO THE HYENA First Line: I should go back because the spotted animal Last Line: And being a nun didn't save me BEANSTALK DREAMS First Line: At first I was inside my man; the twisting Last Line: The ax -- why, there's no such thing %as an ax BEAUTY, THE BEAST; THOSE TWO First Line: A crush. The beast releases Last Line: Sore throat becoming flute BEGINNING THE ROCK AT ABBOT SCHOOL First Line: It's the sixties and it's okay because the rock hits my forehead Last Line: Submit to gravity again and again BEST OF THE BODY First Line: Spleen %it is highly vascular, that is Last Line: The liver and spleen, not the creamy brain BIRMINGHAM BROWN'S TURN First Line: I know how ridiculous this could seem, the Last Line: If he wishes; I can keep salvation, %so can birmingham. Who cares %what he may have lost BLUE TERRITORY OF SISSIES First Line: The sky's wild secret Last Line: Orville and wilbur sing unexceptionally CATCHER FOR AN ATOMIC BOUQUET First Line: I have just watched 'eyes on the prize' Last Line: Won't be shit on CHA-CHA PICKLE First Line: If the cha-cha pickle fails Last Line: Pickle taking over the icehouse and justice %as would storms CHEATING First Line: The cheating belongs to a season that can not be rsurrected Last Line: Particularly useful; it is then too accessible to be useful CHILD'S BEEN DEAD A WEEK First Line: We take turns Last Line: Lord, make the ants eat CONGREGATIONS First Line: Sunrise service and rev. Jake is a dove. His wide Last Line: Self-esteem that wouldn't quit. Ticket %out of the ghetto. Sing how I got over! CRYSTALS First Line: In 1845 dr. James marion sims had seen it many times Last Line: As if his hand remained Subject(s): Physicians; Reproductive System; Women DAY BEFORE KINDERGARTEN: TALUCA First Line: I watch daddy tear down Last Line: Maybe I should be %but I ain't Subject(s): Kindergarten DEAR CHARLES First Line: You really didn't have to blow me a tornadic kiss all the way Last Line: Payment is due on the privilege of having me DEATH OF THE SWEET WORLD First Line: She can't eat salt or sugar Last Line: As if she was in love %with the broom DECISION First Line: Really lazarus decided himself that he didn't like the tomb Last Line: Eat, consume, digest, and I'll be your little bit of excrement, devoted little bit of shit DENIAL First Line: This is supposed to be a denial Last Line: Nurse to overdose my morphine. Trying DENNIS'S SKY LEOPARD First Line: He saw it first, me just the big, the Last Line: Harvest leading to the ultimate feast but I'm never %cut down. That's the best part DETOUR: THE DEATH OF AGNES First Line: The night that smelled of cigarettes Last Line: Making you detour into a field of luminous cotton %that you would call heaven if you could DEVELOPMENT OF AN ADULT NIGHTMARE Poem Text First Line: It starts when gathering mynas Subject(s): Birds; Dreams DEVELOPMENT OF AN ADULT NIGHTMARE First Line: It starts when gathering mynas Last Line: I think of mynas DOUBTS DURING CATASTROPHE First Line: Being in god's hand doesn't mean being in a full house Last Line: If that's the only ladder DRAFTY CORNER IN A TOW-AWAY ZONE First Line: Aerial views of kilauea's lava flow suggest a smile Last Line: After she is made famous on the news DWARF TOSSING First Line: At least he's off the ground Last Line: Entirely missed, the flag still in his hand %still called old glory for lack of any new EAR First Line: It is called the incomplete human flower, I know because I have called it that Last Line: I can fuck with the numbers EASTER First Line: Dr. Frankenstein feeds his son voltage, juice Last Line: In which they slaughter lambs and chickens ECLIPSE AND THE HOLY MAN First Line: The many-paned window in a cold room Last Line: I worry about the birds EYELID'S STRUGGLE First Line: We watch the pigeons bring back Last Line: Be back, that you have killed FIRST GRADE ART: WHAT MEETS THE EYE First Line: The world full of girls and the sky Last Line: And the cold consequences of faith FISHER STREET First Line: I like to walk down fisher street Last Line: I don't expect to see %any other angels FIVE MIRACLES First Line: We were cutting corn from cobs Last Line: Thinking about changing my reputation FOR HAGAR First Line: Children come from god, even hagar's son ishmael who was conceived with abram Last Line: To cross the water, all those hungry days, hungrier sea in the middle of hunger FOR THOSE WHO CAN'T PEEL THE POTATOES CLOSE ENOUGH First Line: Blondell, who engraved bridgett's face with my nails Last Line: Followed by the siren's benediction FORM OF DEICIDE First Line: Between elvis, god, and santa clause, some people Last Line: In command, giving the orders FROM THE BRIDE'S JOURNAL First Line: The room fills, refills Last Line: His zipper sounds like a saw FULLNESS First Line: One day your place in line will mean the eucharist Last Line: You will feed yourself five thousand times GAMES First Line: Aunt donna's dead Last Line: Boys will be men %boys will cheat GLORY First Line: The sun does not really rise; the earth turns and leans Last Line: And it's all in our ability to burn GOD BLESS RITA'S MAGIC HAIR First Line: She said her hair grew only in arizona Last Line: To you anywhere in the world after they kiss them, the %taste on their lips longer than love, than r GODIVA First Line: Myself, I always thought it Last Line: Put it in a dead thing GOOD AMNESIA First Line: First of all, this was no accident Last Line: Some things I can't forget GOODNESS AND THE SALT OF THE EARTH First Line: Somebody's husband raped you while you were supposed to be Last Line: Rains. It always pours. Thank goodness GOSSAMER AND THINNER First Line: The breast milk is so thin Last Line: I can't do that to a baby GREEN LIGHT AND GAMMA WAYS First Line: My brother, two years in the world and Last Line: Miss liberty, has no inner genesis. But it %warms her HARRIDAN First Line: The harridan loses her temper all the time, claims drunk men Last Line: In her only marriage HEADS First Line: Along the chickahominy river in the witness Last Line: No one bothers to explain HIGHWAY 29: A PEDISTRIAN'S VIEW First Line: It's a long walk to culpepper. By Last Line: The bridge, stem, blithe weeping at the crossroads, %the head blossoming between soft thighs. This I HOLDING (1) First Line: Evening comes Last Line: She wakes ready, really all gaga with faith %and all god does is hold, hold, %put her on hold Variant Title(s): Holdin HOLDING (2) First Line: Nobody knows about the wig Last Line: Although she is asleep, her grip does not weaken HOT TIME IN A SMALL TOWN First Line: In this restaurant a plate of bluefish pate Last Line: Who was in charge of job? Both burnt him IN THE PIT OF CRINOLINE RUFFLES First Line: That spring there were cloth Last Line: I danced for her IN THE UNHOLY LAND OF SLEEP First Line: All the girls have taps on their shoes Last Line: Is what I woke from IN THE UNHOLY LAND OF SLEEP First Line: All the girls have taps on their shoes Last Line: Like the narrow contrail of a jet INTERPRETATION OF A POEM BY FROST Poem Text First Line: A young black girl stopped by the woods Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Poetry & Poets INTERPRETATION OF A POEM BY FROST First Line: A young black girl stopped by the woods Last Line: Before she sleeps with jim Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Poetry And Poets IT RIDES ON TADPOLES First Line: I ate a little bread and felt better Last Line: Unfolding, wonders of the world JONAH EFFECT First Line: Instead of mud, frisbees (plastic hubcaps) on Last Line: White dress, %all white as a sheet %all scared JUNIPER TREE OF KNOWLEDGE First Line: A wife prayed for a baby as she peeled an apple Last Line: Have done such a good job anyway of making grief unnecessary KING KONG First Line: Into a ballroom that big hand Last Line: And when he snaps his fingers: dervishes %dominoes, vesuvius LA CULTURA DE PESCADO First Line: In the culture of fish, trees also are obedient Last Line: For them LANDSCAPE WITH SAXOPHONIST First Line: The usual is there Last Line: And by the wrong things LAST CHANCE FOR THE TARZAN HOLLER: 1. THE SEASON THAT PRECEDES DALI'S First Line: This day, like all days Last Line: Aw; tell me more, mommie, %dearest medea LAST CHANCE FOR THE TARZAN HOLLER: 2. UNITY, INC. First Line: This time perhaps the current will follow the blue path Last Line: I hate homonymity, as if I am singularly composed %of wicked artistry LAST CHANCE FOR THE TARZAN HOLLER: 3. KNOCK, KNOCK. WHO'S THERE First Line: Zaynah is a girl whose match of bone marrow Last Line: Turned to pudding, trying to escape %the revenge of marrow LESSONS FROM A MIRROR Poem Text First Line: Snow white was nude at her wedding, she's so white Last Line: Know that more than white is missing Subject(s): African Americans - Women LESSONS FROM A MIRROR First Line: Snow white was nude at her wedding, she's so white Last Line: When you look at me, %know that more than white is missing Subject(s): African Americans - Women LIGHTER SIDE OF SHADOWS OF MONSTERS First Line: Snow makes it seem too easy, this cascading Last Line: That grow ragged in rising temperature and sun LIMITATION OF BEAUTIFUL RECIPES First Line: With the silver ladle that belongs Last Line: Tumbling over three shoulders LINES FOR A WET NURSE First Line: She slips in the back door Last Line: Moonlight for milk LINOLEUM RHUMBA First Line: On parade: some of the dancer's many personalities and Last Line: The huge crowd doesn't know what to do as %they've come resolved to apologize LITTLE SOMETHING FOR BUCKWHEAT AND OTHER PICKANINNIES First Line: Look at the kite strings of your hair Last Line: You felt wearing your skin LIVING UNDER A MAN ON THE MOON First Line: This is how it goes Last Line: The cue stick a rocket to a ball of white opportunity LONGING TO SEE A NURTURING GRAVE First Line: Something about a graveyard makes me confident Last Line: Getting up from that will be even %if afterwards I just go to hell LUNCHCOUNTER FREEDOM First Line: I once wanted a white man's eyes upon %me, my beauty riveting him to my slum Last Line: He is free to choose from available %choices. The asterisk marks the special LYNCHING First Line: They should have slept, would have Last Line: Keeps me warm. Patches of skin fall onto me %in places I didn't know needed mending LYNNE'S POEM: REASONS First Line: Because I don't drink Last Line: By the shovelful would be elevated, a %stain that is the world MACAQUES CHECKING EACH OTHER FOR LICE: A PUBLIC DISPLAY First Line: Finding lice, they pop the grubs into their mouths Last Line: Thank macques %for this potential MAI PEN RAI First Line: I listen to the ragman's throaty drawl Last Line: Everyday the ragman's drawl says mai pen rai, mai pen rai %and I believe MAN First Line: How handsome he was, that man who did not court Last Line: So god moves also %because a man moves MANNA ADDICTS First Line: Manna must be pried from the road Last Line: Small crucifixes on filigree chains %fall through them MAUDELL'S MOON First Line: Moon on your back, where you get Last Line: At all, but she got something now ME AND BUBBLE WENT TO MEMPHIS Poem Text Recitation by Author MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE WALL Poem Text First Line: Who never sang for my father? Subject(s): Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry MISS LIBERTY LOSES PAGEANT First Line: Should be a headline but it's not Last Line: How romantic the notion. Better that she gets %the man than dudley do-right whose name is plea MISSION First Line: In its brown wrap it sits for days Last Line: All men think they are gods MORE LESSONS FROM A MIRROR First Line: In alice's reversed world MUDDY ROAD CONTINUED First Line: This all happened in ekido's first life Last Line: While the world dances on her toes NATURE OF MORNING First Line: With arm at the angle for low salute Last Line: Could be innocent bystanders were they not gladiators. %all that I don't doubt is the nature of a th NEWS First Line: Don't say again that no news it good Last Line: Reveal exactly how much you must pay as %result of migrant audit NIGGER FOR THE FIRST TIME First Line: Bam! Nigger turns the light off Last Line: He said, baby born knowing bear NOT SUFFERING First Line: Why is it that I no longer suffer? Have reasons stopped, benefits - especially Last Line: But then for saying it, being accused of not saying enough NOVEMBER AND AUNT JEMIMA First Line: We sit at the table and that is grace Last Line: Mix in the box after the grinding of bones ODE TO THE CAT-HEADED CONSORT IN A PAINTING BY BOSCH First Line: Demons loved anthony; he could go nowhere, do nothing Last Line: There is any chance at all for humility OLD MAIDS WEAVING BASKETS First Line: I was with you when valhermosa Last Line: You said a man %would leave yu ONE FOR ALL NEWBORNS Poem Text First Line: They kick and flail like crabs on their backs. Subject(s): Birth; Babies; Mothers & Daughters; Child Birth; Midwifery; Infants ONE FOR ALL NEWBORNS First Line: They kick and flail like crabs on their backs Last Line: Of his creation, looking for signs of spring ONE YEAR SONNY STABS HIMSELF Last Line: All eyes watching %the sun go down ONE-EYED MOTHER SELLING MANGOES First Line: What hung above our heads like truce Last Line: Already aware of the weight of heaven ONE-LEGGED COOK First Line: A high school cafeteria Last Line: A lot of folks didn't notice OVERSEEING THE CHERRY First Line: I love them too and was one Last Line: Deeply pious and men - underneath their devotion OWL IN DAYTIME First Line: No one knows where the undertaker lives Last Line: The bread she makes PARTY TO WHICH WOLVES ARE INVITED First Line: I'm five years old Last Line: Surprise! My parents step out PASSING THE ROCK AT THE PHELPS SCHOOL First Line: From the right you lucky piece of gneiss, striated like bacon Last Line: Ripe for martyrdom - I pass thee to david, the ingneous fault is thine PASSOVER POEM First Line: God wipes his eyes Last Line: And poor god cannot pass the buck, he made the buck PLACE THAT MAKES PRESIDENTS First Line: I am there not understantding what Last Line: Need the understanding I need so that we can sleep on beds for %which geese, narragansett and passam POEM FOR MY MOTHER AND OTHER MAKERS OF ASAFETIDA First Line: Brown in the bottle, my Last Line: Her who can make him wash his face, her who can turn it into%something to love POSSIBILITIES THAT REQUIRE TOMBSTONES First Line: I go there often Last Line: If the scarf were long enough PREFERABLE TRUTH First Line: I'm glad I ate the cigarette, it's Last Line: Advances I'd prefer that air, the invisible empire %of the south (and north), not make PROBLEM WITH LOVING A GHOST OF A SAILOR First Line: I've looked for you %in every wet suit RAISING A HUMID FLAG Poem Text First Line: Enough women over thirty are at redbones for Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine RAISING A HUMID FLAG First Line: Enough women over thirty are at redbones Last Line: Drippng down candles in sacred places RAPTURE OF DRY ICE BURNING...OF THE SOUL'S APOTHEOSIS First Line: How will we get used to joy %if we won't hold onto it? Last Line: Let heartbreak be alternative to coffeebreak, five %midmorning minutes devoted to emotion RECONSIDERATION OF THE BLACKBIRD First Line: Let's call him jim crow Last Line: Solution: paint them all white, call them visions, everyone will want one Subject(s): Racism REDBONES AS NOTHING SPECIAL First Line: It is 1060 and a crowd is at redbones Last Line: With bicuspids and incisors REMEMBERING KITCHENS First Line: In the kitchen we compensate for missiles Last Line: Is hot so the peaks of cream will froth; these %are the sundays my family suckles grace RENEGADE ANGELS First Line: Every night women in love gather outside the window Last Line: In honor of them for forty years I bleed libation RENEWAL AT THE PEDIATRIC HOSPICE First Line: That room that sunlight fully carpets Last Line: So deeply in love %you can't get up and everyone %thinks you're dead RIGHT EMPOWERMENT OF LIGHT First Line: In the right empowerment of light, pictures taken Last Line: There is also arrogance, the other radiance ROAD TO TODOS SANTOS IS CLOSED First Line: That's a movie about events that don't happen where I live Last Line: I wish to have similar faith that todos santos can be accused %without a road ROOT OF THE ROAD First Line: My hem eats the dirt haunting Last Line: By its pinker stem RUNNING OUT OF CHOICES First Line: This is not about beirut or el salvador or nicaragua Last Line: In the projects I might have lived in had I not been so lucky RUSH HOUR First Line: He boards the train downtown Last Line: I just left his house. Spotless SAINT AND THE MODERN EQUIVALENT OF THE MIRACLE OF LACTATION First Line: Like others, he resists women Last Line: Even of faith, has not been weaned from luck SAINT ANTHONY'S ECSTASY First Line: To the poor, anthony gave everything so none went lacking Last Line: Then being too ecstatic to eat SCENE FROM THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE, A SPANISH FILM First Line: Isabel plays dead for ana who doesn't mind Last Line: She is singing, but this I cannot prove SEAMSTRESS First Line: Where else could she find a lover so straight Last Line: That stitching herself to the world doesn't work SECOND GRADE ART: THE STUNNING CHANCES First Line: It could be those terrors more apparent at seven Last Line: To baby flo's undeniable wisdom of flesh SHE DID MY HAIR OUTSIDE, THE WASH A TENT AROUND US First Line: Right over left, left over right, mama Last Line: Rocking me in an autistic way that saves SHE'S FLORIDA MISSOURI BUT SHE WAS BORN IN VALHERMOSA First Line: My mother's named for places, not sandusky Last Line: Shuffling them in prayer SHOE IN THE ROAD First Line: On some days, there are shoes in the road, not Last Line: And every other mercy SMALL CONGREGATIONS First Line: Look around at sis. Elden's brim wider than the arms Last Line: Ottawa, heaven -- that's right, heaven; not new haven anymore SONG IN THE FRONT YARD First Line: I've stayed in the front yard all my life Last Line: And strut down the streets with paint on my face SOUR MILK First Line: At first %sour milk poured same as good milk from Last Line: The result - and it's okay to call it intelligent or miraculous no matter %what it really is SPECIAL EFFECTS First Line: I am overwhelmed by the unprecedented %accuracy of fear Last Line: For instance, I am not afraid of flying but of %failing to fly SPILLED SUGAR First Line: I cannot forget the sugar on the table Last Line: That one-third of himself was dead SPLITTING A DOUBLE LIFE First Line: As if having the best of everything isn't going to rob her of too much Last Line: That is all the good doctor wants to know SPRING CLEANING AT THE LEWISTON POLICE STATION First Line: In the basement Last Line: They'll go back in the box ST. ALEXIS HOSPITAL: VISITING HOUR First Line: I ask if she remembers Last Line: They can't get her temperature %down SUGAR SLAVE First Line: Once upon a time a little boy felled a tree Last Line: Refined and in the jar you pass upon request Subject(s): Farm Life SUNRISE COMES TO SECOND AVENUE First Line: Daylight announces Last Line: Sweeping up confessions TEA BAGS First Line: Remembering, she agitates hand washables Last Line: Regulation underwear still damp when she puts it on THE CONTINENT OF REENA AND MARCUS' MARRIAGE Poem Text First Line: Marcus was most fond of coriander Subject(s): Food & Eating THE CULTURE OF GLASS Poem Text Subject(s): Thanksgiving; Glass THE PAMPERING OF LEORA Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Therefore, no more recounting of dreams, a routine thing Subject(s): Youth; Babies; Breast Feeding; Infants; Nursing (infants) THE RAPTURE OF DRY ICE BURNING OFF SKIN AS THE MOMENT OF THE SOUL'S APOTHEOSIS Poem Text First Line: How will we get used to joy THE SUBCULTURE OF THE WRONGLY ACCUSED Poem Text First Line: Ultimately improved by it: slant light Subject(s): Trials; Guilty; Innocence; Prisons & Prisoners; Convicts THE UNDERTAKER'S DAUGHTER FEELS NEGLECT Poem Text First Line: Tonight, a beautiful redhead Last Line: I seldom wake at all anymore Subject(s): Undertakers THE WARMTH OF HOT CHOCOLATE Poem Text First Line: Somebody told me I didn't exist even though he was Subject(s): God THE WRECKAGE ON THE WALL OF EGGS Poem Text First Line: I cried over humpty-dumpty Last Line: I think of mynas Subject(s): Fairy Tales; Children; Eggs; Racial Equality; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THERE WILL BE ANIMALS First Line: There will be animals to teach us Last Line: Riding hood %walking out of a wolf named dachau THIS DID NOT HAPPEN Poem Text Subject(s): Hospitals THIS MAGICIAN First Line: From the hat once checked at club 54 Last Line: And one summer day went to camp %as children do THOSE IMMORTAL AXILLARY ANIMALS First Line: Bagpipes when the fragile animal is squeezed Last Line: In the distortion of red fluid, glass, and light THOSE WHO LOVE BONES First Line: Wilma's hair, stringy red meat, bone fixed Last Line: Forensics-defying word: race THOUGHTS ABOUT THE CARIBOU'S VELVET Poem Text First Line: You hate to look at it Last Line: And recoiling from you heart? Subject(s): Clothing & Dress THOUGHTS ABOUT THE CARIBOU'S VELVET First Line: You hate to look at it Last Line: Having swerved to avoid that deer on your mind TIME FOR PRAISE First Line: Finally that season too has come, a reason Last Line: Airtight alibi telling us %there's been no crime TIMEX REMEMBERED First Line: In the middle of an argument Last Line: Anywhere, no freedom from the timex watch, the accuracy %of its score TO BUCKWHEAT AND OTHER PICKANINNIES First Line: Mammy (you don't mean to call her that but it's contagious) TO ELIMINATE VAGUENESS First Line: In the red-legged locust's black raids upon midwest soybeans Last Line: In my father's old rocker, the damage already done TORNADOS Poem Text First Line: Truth is, I envy them Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADOS First Line: Truth is, I envy them Last Line: Tornado alley where it intersects memory lane. Smoky spirit-%clouds, shadows searching for what cast Subject(s): Tornadoes TOY STOVE First Line: He made it on the longest day Last Line: Cake, thinking I always would TRIBUTE TO JESSE AND THEN SOME First Line: Sometimes the only dignity is in walking the streets Last Line: The same. But keep it alive anyway, vegetative, attached %toa machine TWO THINGS First Line: Before going any further I must ask that two things Last Line: Are the shrines, - thousands of shrines the water leaves behind UNDERTAKER'S DAUGHTER FEELS NEGLECT First Line: Tonight, a beautiful redhead Last Line: I seldom wake at all anymore Subject(s): Undertakers UNDERTAKER'S DAUGHTER MAKES BREAD First Line: Even a frigid wife yields, even a stud has a soft spot Last Line: Is to wake from a long sleep %hungry WAKE FOR THE LOST TWO HUNDRED MILES First Line: It was august, the summer ritual Last Line: The three monkeys, three stooges, even %the trinity covered WALK THROUGH THE DARK EMBRACE: ADVENT First Line: Stefano della bella has arranged Last Line: But not yet the chicken, not yet the ostrich, not yet the world WALK THROUGH THE DARK EMBRACE: AN END TO STRUTHIOUS RAPTURE First Line: Eggs hang %from crucified feet Last Line: Pile on the empty plate, a feast %of remembrance WALK THROUGH THE DARK EMBRACE: SURRENDER First Line: Kathe kollwitz's child run over Last Line: Is also believed of this massacre WALK THROUGH THE DARK EMBRACE: THE GARROTED MAN First Line: Holds a dark metal cross, bitter Last Line: Finally digging it out of flesh not about to surrender anything else WARMTH OF HOT CHOCOLATE First Line: Somebody told me I didn't exist even though he was Last Line: That rises within him sometimes, a shadowy ever-descending brother Subject(s): God WASHING BREAD First Line: In the river a woman washes bread Last Line: Pieces of their crosses WATER ROAD First Line: Sing a song of commerce Last Line: And hanging in black sickness %deep above WAY OF BREATHING First Line: Playing jacks without hands, I'm no child Last Line: Bang-bang, bang-bang WEBS First Line: Gray garlands loop Last Line: To the generations of spiders WHAT HUNG ABOVE OUR HEADS LIKE TRUCE First Line: Was also sky we think we cannot touch but Last Line: Of the heaviness of all that light and that heaven %pressing, pressing down WHEN I WAS 'BOUT TEN WE DIDN'T PLAY BASEBALL First Line: There's a wedding and I was not invited and that's Last Line: Supposed to go; way, way out of our league WHILE ENVYING THE AMISH First Line: Expect an early morning unsolicited kiss when Last Line: Of making love. Of course she resists laboring and envying %those who need work at nothing WONDER First Line: Over my shoulder in danbury, connecticut, as I drove Last Line: Of wonder bread -- we didn't have to buy any WRECKAGE ON THE WALL OF EGGS First Line: I cried over humpty-dumpty Last Line: Came out of me, I see that what's inside is as white and gold as heidi |
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