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Pomegranate and the Dreamy Boys

from Outside, the Great Drought by Hyena

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I used to work in
the belly of a pomegranate
on the days when God took his naps,
and the chill of the air kissed our lungs
gently – gentle and brisk, and so familiar.

I used to survey the parking lot from
the multi-windowed spot above
the home that held my mother’s pride
and love. And the women with the cancerous skin –
splotchy, loose, and desperate – came in.
I, I, I, I wrung their wallets dry just to
help keep them alive – to give them purpose.

All the ants, they’d come to see me:
a spectacle on Sundays,
a feast just for the taking and the leaves oh so forsaken
and the trains eating the quarters, quarterly magazines have written,
“oh, these days have stopped their growing!”
News that I guess is worth knowing. And the
seeds that I’ve been stowing, oh, the pomegranate
birthed from me, burst from me, like syrup from the maple trees
keeping everyone so very, very, very, very close
to my
heart.

I don’t usually say things like this you see, but I’ve been very,
sigh,
quite
tired lately –
the words just ramble out of me and seemingly
they’re shades of orange and red and
golden yellow brown and quite
lonely sounding.
An anvil of thought strikes bells in my neck –
oh! bellowed cries ring right out of me, despite of me,
and they say – they say – they say – they say,
“dreamy, dreamy, dreamy!
dreamy, dreamy, dreamy,
dreamy b-b-boys! Dreamy boys! Dreamy boys! b-b-boys!
Come swallow me up and steal me away jubilantly
from all my timidly held trepidations – oh!
they make me very tired.”
and on with autumn fires.

(repeat from “I don’t usually…b-b-boys!”).
Come swallow me up and steal me away jubilantly
from all my memories -
they make me weary every now and then.

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from Outside, the Great Drought, released February 11, 2011

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