The 1st place poem from our last poetry contest:
The Way it Hurtles by queenhrosie
It sizes itself up against all the other
hearts. It has always been too small,
too Latin when everyone else was being
Jews. It questions. Is brokenhearted
one word or two? It is always one.
Just one. It enters checkups like the
time it had sex with Jorie Graham. You
should not be allowed to say fuck and
me in the same sentence. But it
does. Others dream of its ashes. Of its
bee's wings and species. It commits
treason, it is the one that tore open
your couch looking for cocaine. It says
it is a Communist, but only a little. It
gets lost. It gets arrested and beaten
as a prisoner. It gets you sunbeams
and into predicaments and flesh. The
swamp frogs litter the streets. It eats
them. The ghost city tries to give up.
It eats all the people inside. The
ditches are full of painted turtles and
drug dealers. It put them there. The
transvestites invite it in, with its big
hair and eyes, it is one of them. It
bottles your dick and shelves your
murmuring in the dark. When you
hiccup, it stops, looks around,
continues on. You yawn and it calls
itself The Destroyer. You
eat two more years, the x-ray
shadows that can only mean tumors.
You eat another strange animal
and that can only mean you are
still going on. It develops a mouth
down the middle. It says love has
nothing to do with it. It white
knuckles your ribs if it is driving
into a tree. It makes you move
to the Catskills and shoot people.
You draw chalk outlines around
yourself in bed. It develops a
button hole to peek through.
You move to a house for beaten
women. All the sidewalks seem
feverish. It solicits everyone as
though it is a tourist. It axes
children as though they are jungles
to get through. Things become
shaped like it: seats of bicycles,
fancy soaps, some stars, some
old meat. You are just a torso,
pumping along. Your shirt and pants
fall to the ground. Figure A presses
to Figure B. You become frightened.
What will happen next? Love has
nothing to do with it.
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