Posted by janejj on November 29, 2001, at 21:50:17
In reply to p03m 4 my b1r7hd4y (2day) -- Song Of November., posted by kid_A on November 29, 2001, at 10:33:15
>
> SONG OF NOVEMBER
>
>
> the song of november
> is upon us, it waits
> like an awful
> surprise--
> oh it's got a
> cousin,
> you know him--
> mr. sun
>
> it waits because
> of
> inevitable--
> and
> waits--
> each day,
> perchance,
> to rise!
>
> it is like Minos
> who waits for
> me--
>
> Him wants me like
> raindrops in a
> beach pail
>
> Him wants me like
> a paycheck
>
> Him wants me in
> a nightshirt, to
> stamp his boot on me
> and shove me
> in a pinebox
>
> Him wants to
> push my peg into a
> Circle
>
> Him wants me snug
> as a bug in a
> cyclone, my
> lovebug--
> full of kisses
>
> deep blue
> kiss, doomed yet
> still a
> kiss
>
> how beautiful!
>
> and all around
> me
> my little karaoke
> november
> propping me up
> like Charles IX
> on his
> buiscuit
>
> that waited
> for my age
> its crawling up
> like a grub
> to whisper in
> my ear
> the song it
> thinks
> is mine--
>
> not mine! no--
> not mine!
>
> no, you see,
> my november song
> it is a Birth
> song
>
> it lulls for me
> in my playpants
> snuffing out
> the
> candles like
> a Protestant,
> on the
> pyre
>
> and i had
> a head there
> between two shoulders
> that became a fist
> the fingers
> all worn out
> from cutting,
> cutting,
> it got
> tuckered out
> from
> shaking!
> shaking--
>
> out! out! it is
> not mine! no,
> not mine!
>
> not, today.
>
> my song is
> another day,
> you see,
> dear boy
> you misunderstood
> it is,
>
> tommorow? no, no
> not mine!
>
> and every note,
> another petal,
> and oh,
> could i say
> an I'm Sorry,
> I just wanted
> a kiss--
> too late
> too late, it's
> not mine!
>
> not mine!
>
> and will you
> bury it?
> push it in it's
> glovebox
> not so deep that
> God can't
> find it,
> not so deep
> that it
> becomes coal
> before the
> worms have a
> feast
>
> and they don't
> know it-- and
> i wont tell them,
> but they
> Do sing it!
> tra la la!
> the grass is singing
> it!
> the birds are talking
> talking,
> talking--
> yes yes! rapture!
> they are
> singing, singing,
> singing it!
> each day a note
> one half for each
> hour, and bless it,
> an eighth for
> every minute,
> la de da!
> a sixteenth
> each tick,
> and then, with
> a mighty
> Harah! a
> breathless
> gentle
>
> coda.
poster:janejj
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