missing voice

by doreen peri

Posted to Action Poetry on 2003-02-04 20:17:00

Parent message is 375378
goddesses can never be aflame.
Love should be capitalized.
the word ‘should’ should be banished
from language.

hair can singe for history and Truth.
reminiscent youth can taunt
but i will not subject myself
to a jaunt around an oval track;
marc trains don’t look back.
emperors have no closed
doors, or shouldn’t.
there should never be
a campaign against or for
forever or wore.

wouldn’t and couldn’t should be
slighted from the dictionary, flamed
like low class citizens, deranged for
the spelling of control.

folds of universal modes
have flirted with rearrangement,
milky ways to fruition, planetary
admission.

don’t stop me when i light the match.
you wouldn’t do that, despite the verse.
let us immerse the igniting,
examining language
like aortas,
home chambers.

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i do not fight
my blood in vein,
no compromise
or veer of claim,
the road in mirrored
rear view fame,
i do not fight
to walk, i’m lame.

i lie beneath
a hallmark floor,
rhyme tete-a-tete
with entry door,
gloves hung on dung
shit ‘neath the floor

i do not fight foundation.
i love you more than twice
elation