Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Eight Old Birthday Balloons

I don’t think we’re nothing

at all

in my kitchen
counting sagging balloons
popping each shriveling mass
with the animalistic joy
of little kids
who just discovered
how
to

destroy

one, two, three,
the gnawing
four
lustful,
two hungry
jaws
five, six
to occupy
seven,

mouths too long,
eight

de –flate
-ed.
O,
What a pretty celebration on grey linoleum!

red, green, blue, yellow, orange,
red, green, blue, yellow, orange

is death always this vibrant?

three months ago everything was up in the air,
but
I still don’t think

we’re nothing
now?

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