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War


“I’ll make you a cadet,” said Mephistopheles,
“I’ll teach you to hand
each woman you have a
noxious weed, with instruction
on how to eat it.”

In this army, I love my sergeant,
in a way
I respect that she lives near a river
since the eternal feminine

puts pebbles in her bra
and my best friend’s wife picks up
a boulder and rolls,

salad rolls, for which
the troops, in their sleepless foraging,

are not in the least embarrassed
to steal from each other.

                         *

(If this fucking poem) let me rephrase that–
If I took this poem in a helicopter
and we were shot down,
would we peel tomatoes together in the morning?

 



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