Anniversary Poem(s) for Zohra, on Our Tenth
Anniversary Poem For Zohra
You’ve been staying across town
Different Area Code, Louisiana
The big fussy, an ocean of bad country away.
Our enemies are killing time
crying online
Counting the days
till they can go back to apolotics.
Big Mediocre still pays the bills,
Nothing is easy
And there’s so many miles between us.
But we get by, Roger Rabbit in real time,
Animaniacs run rampant,
Pills and panties through the post.
Sell my info to China and I hope they can use it
Because getting Bitmojis of my baby
Riding a dinosaur, or resting on a plate of perogies,
or kissing a snowman
Like a Kate Bush loving up that wendigo?
This is worth whatever booty we give to the gods of distance.
I love you spinning outwards
Like angels on pins, like bears who play trumpet
Wild and on the verge.
Call me from a distant ledge: You jump, I’ll jump,
Give the crowd what they always wanted
And make them twice as sorry
We wish reckless;
If you were a monkey’s paw, I’d grab it.
Facing time, your face in mind,
Our phone bills are inherently moving.
Motherfuckers give advice,
talk and dress like guidance counselors
What they don’t know could shoot up a school.
Baby, wherever you go, you are still, to me,
the beautiful trouble at home.
Zohra, being with you is like moving towards the edge of a map, pen in hand
Like the earth was once flat, but now isn’t,
Like fresh mown grass, like skipping class.
I love you like Motorhead’s everything louder than everything else,
Every light in my world turned on at once,
Brighter, brighter, and then brighter.
Poem with Lines From The Song Love Shack For Zohra
Love wracked
A tin roof, born rusty
My heart
Is as big as a whale
My heart
Is as big as a whale
Why don’t you
Dance with me
Do the wattusi
Do the Charleston chew
Do the Andalusia
(Assorted animal noises)
(awoopa! awoo!)
Do the fanged fandango
Do the horribly haunted goose
I spent the nonexistent
jukebox money
On candy and castanets
At night, in your absence,
about to set sail,
I dream this mess around