East Fork:
A Journal of the Arts
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Regression to the Quick
Some one time, someone
told someone else,
something I said,
which, I shouldn’t
have said,
to make me look bad.
Did they so to hurt me,
but hurt the other
more?
Was quite a lesson in pain?
Like wincing a child
from his mother
cries he so does, like
a splinter found a home
piercing deep, beneath
a nail bed quick, like
a tongue, when the tea isn’t
quite ready to be received,
like pain endured so,
when someone told me something,
someone said, about me!
for sure, for shame
Every night, when I go out,
The weasel's on the table,
Take a stick and knock it off”
Pop goes the weasel.
18th Century England
for George Floyd
point digit one
who are you,
hair finger curled boo?
point digit two
blasted smoke power,
duck now better cower!
point digit three
blanc de blanc all right,
noir not quite!
point digit four
jump fast the steeple,
we the only people!
point digit five
pop!—pop!—pop!—just a normal day,
for shame America! knee to the 1st to the 7th—Vertebrae!