BUSINESS EYES

(found poetry by Sara Adams. Source material: Three Bedrooms, One Corpse, by Charlaine Harris)

[businesseyes]

Oct 31: you’re the boss

***

Bible college

chicken farm..

you’re the boss

***

Found poem by Sara Adams. Source material: Three Bedrooms, One Corpse by Charlaine Harris. Page 111.

[businesseyes]

Oct 30: “I promise you I am serious. Please call the police.”

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“Um-- how many times have you been married?” I asked apprehensively. 

“What?” he answered instantly, quietly. 

“It was so nice to meet you,” a voice at my elbow said with routine curtesy. 

“I hate this house,” I said. 

“What a fate,” I said. 

“See you later,” I said, starting my car.

***

Found poem by Sara Adams. Source material: Three Bedrooms, One Corpse by Charlaine Harris. Phrases cut up from many pages of the book and assembled on the back of my planner. 

[businesseyes]

Oct 29: I loved it.

***

I loved it. 

a new mirror

time; the mother

***

Found poem by Sara Adams. Source material: Three Bedrooms, One Corpse by Charlaine Harris. Page 110. 

[businesseyes]

Oct 27: You’re just a lucky woman

***

“You’re just a lucky woman,”

a light kiss

complained

***

Found poem by Sara Adams. Source material: Three Bedrooms, One Corpse by Charlaine Harris. Page 135.

[businesseyes]

Oct 26: I heard the back door open and

***

I heard the back door open and 

a great relief

saw

the outside air, 

driving home

***

Found poem by Sara Adams. Source material: Three Bedrooms, One Corpse by Charlaine Harris. Page 175.

[businesseyes]

Oct 24: my halfhearted / departure from the restaurant

**

my counteroffer

was

so long

My mother’s famous eye-

brows

Know Too Much

***

Found poem by Sara Adams. Source material: Three Bedrooms, One Corpse by Charlaine Harris. Pages 117. 

[businesseyes]

Oct 23: burglary tools

***

I remembered a 

totally unjustified feeling

just for the hell of it

I had no plans to conceal

the

longest screwdriver.

***

Found poem by Sara Adams. Source material: Three Bedrooms, One Corpse by Charlaine Harris. Pages 204-5.

[businesseyes]

Oct 22: antiquated toilet

***

antiquated toilet

His heart’s not in it

***

Found poem by Sara Adams. Source material: Three Bedrooms, One Corpse by Charlaine Harris. Pages 56-7.

[businesseyes]

Oct 21: CHAPTER TWO

***

An hour after I’d gotten home, I began to feel

neutered

***

Found poem by Sara Adams. Source material: Three Bedrooms, One Corpse by Charlaine Harris. Page 23. 

[businesseyes]

Oct 20: ladies

***

ladies,

“Thanks.”

*** Found poem by Sara Adams. Source material: Three Bedrooms, One Corpse by Charlaine Harris. Page 48.

[businesseyes]

Oct 18: Is the government forever

***

Is the government

forever

The salads left, 

certainly not

***

Found poem by Sara Adams. Source material: Three Bedrooms, One Corpse by Charlaine Harris. Page 48.

[businesseyes]

Oct 17: Women do not need

*** 

Women do not need to be

autopsied.

***

Found poem by Sara Adams. Source material: Three Bedrooms, One Corpse by Charlaine Harris. Page 48.

[businesseyes]

Oct 15: I was dying

***

I was dying

without beind overheard

indeed

***

Found poem by Sara Adams. Source material: Three Bedrooms, One Corpse by Charlaine Harris. Page 97. 

[businesseyes]

Oct 14: must have been / wary

***

He was freshly shaved;

His hair must have been

wary of dangerous feelings

***

Found poem by Sara Adams. Source material: Three Bedrooms, One Corpse by Charlaine Harris. Page 81.

[businesseyes]

Oct 13: A cold wind

***

A cold wind

crowded

***

Found poem by Sara Adams. Source material: Three Bedrooms, One Corpse by Charlaine Harris. Page 138.

[businesseyes]

Oct 12: fully / seen

***

I caught a little

dumpster

the dumpster squatted

called

the police

fully 

seen

it was true,

he knew nothing

seen nothing, and was not even in real estate.

***

Found poem by Sara Adams. Source material: Three Bedrooms, One Corpse by Charlaine Harris. Page 165.

[businesseyes]

Oct 11: untitled

Found poem by Sara Adams. Source material: Three Bedrooms, One Corpse by Charlaine Harris. Phrases/words cut from random parts of the book. My partner actually came to me and said “I found some words” like literally on the ground somewhere in the apartment and I liked them as a poem. I’m very messy when I’m destroying a book, it seems.