From Alternative Prosaicnesses: First Poems
published by Down With Grundy, Publisher
(now Banana-Cue Books, Publisher)

Cotton Candy

 

They don't really know you if they say
You are a gentleman.
You also went over to circuses and laid
Your hands on the shoulder of that one

woman. sweeney hangs his arms to
laugh you did the opposite you were gentle-
man, alright, and had from then on
been carrying mirror to other circuses

For your face/grooming (and then for skirts),
Though there are no more really exciting
Circuses now even as you see girls, very pretty
Children laughing at the stupid clown

who'd once lured you to spend your coins
on stupid circuses that you right now enter
for nostalgia's sake for the
sake of calling memory of a day when

You laid hands on the girl you married
Whom you laid hands on again when you buried
          her death
In a swift goodbye, when in the circus you
         swiftly
Said "hello" as you farted. She, departed,

will always be the funny girl you'd stuffed
a cotton candy on the face on, till she al-
most cried from laughing, not so much be
cause she was the funny one but you were. . . .

 

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