I
told you one thing
felt another
made
me feel
a weird thing
ditsy
in the wind
hustling of leaves
smoke like a cat
mounting
from air to air -----------------------
I
lose my neutrality
a splash of the dishes
We
happen to be out why blame us &
What with my sixties I wonder
will I do?
-----------------Poems
like these
about
nothing
are
not very good
for fixing problems
or
alleviating minds. Once, unknowingly
I peed into a toilet
where (surprise!)
was
a dead mouse
&
thought
this
is mother nature.
Two months
later
I
get away
with the burner cooking,
staying for hours with nothing on.
Jennifer Soong is the author of Near, At (Futurepoem 2019). Her poems have appeared in Social Text, Fanzine, Berfrois, Panda's Friend, Omniverse, DIAGRAM, and others, and has
been translated into Spanish. She is the poetry editor at Nat. Brut. and currently lives in New Jersey, where she works on poetry
and forgetting at Princeton University.
the Tuesday poem is curated by rob mclennan
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