Feeling Fucked Up
Lord she’s gone done left me done packed / up and split
and I with no way to make her
come back and everywhere the world is bare
bright bone white crystal sand glistens
dope death dead dying and jiving drove
her away made her take her laughter and her smiles
and her softness and her midnight sighs—
Fuck Coltrane and music and clouds drifting in the sky
fuck the sea and trees and the sky and birds
and alligators and all the animals that roam the earth
fuck marx and mao fuck fidel and nkrumah and
democracy and communism fuck smack and pot
and red ripe tomatoes fuck joseph fuck mary fuck
god jesus and all the disciples fuck fanon nixon
and malcolm fuck the revolution fuck freedom fuck
the whole muthafucking thing
all i want now is my woman back
so my soul can sing
-Etheridge Knight, The Essential Etheridge Knight
Only Mama and I were at home.
We ate tomato sandwiches
with sweeps of mayonnaise
on indifferent white bread.
Surely it was September,
my older brother at school.
The tomatoes were fragrant
and richly red, perhaps the last
before frost.
-Jane Kenyon, from "Drawing from the Past", Otherwise (p. 11)
I read that as 'Hangover'. I was thinking maybe it was a hangover cure.
You need to do a review on hangover foods.
I am hung over.
Posted by: Billy Shin | September 19, 2008 at 03:05 PM
ew ew ew! yuck! tomatoes are evil!!!
Posted by: Andrea | September 19, 2008 at 03:18 PM