Monday, September 10, 2012

What is calcium?

Who gives a shit, do you?
Let's talk about drugs.
Let's issue a new company motto.
Let's strip-search the human genome.
Let's write "DOG LOVES YOU"
in chalk on the kennel sidewalk.
How about them vandals?
They're pretty good with a skillet
and even better with some purpose.
Their bones are even made out of it.
Let's talk about sex this time.
It's important to be strong and good
at sex, or else you'll break.
This I learned from a book.
What they didn't put in books
they whispered to the vandal,
who left it tattered, dangling
off the chain-link fence, and
that was where I found calcium:
tough, condensed, collected,
sentenced to the bleak, bitter
and end-of-the-road
end of the poem that opens
a void blank as a glass of milk.



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