& Rats Dance |
by Elizabeth Kate Switaj |
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weep for marbled red weep for ivory weep for eleph/ants/ have red accordion p|ain meta| harmonica and nothing note on dusty shelf by banned books (more dust behind glass soldiers crashed seeking reeds cur| like /in/test/ines but-tons keys /scat/tered teeth & casing bones weep for marbled red weep for ivory weep for eleph/ants/ weep for demons cannot sing with bless/e\d angels & their ( )harps After Dirty War Do you think I wanted to hear you grandma No No No Do you think I wanted to be born under concrete walls in detention center No No No mother father Do you think I wanted to learn you were my jailers No No No Do you think I wanted to know mother father their jailers gave me to call you mother father No No No and now I stand by five hundred of me and yes our grandmothers yes until we all are found No? No? No? Click ` Hear Listen man with blood hanging from blue lips world doesn't care about you World signs trade pacts more crates for crates than feet & hands more words than put in sen(ten)ces Listen woman you were raped world doesn't care but /but/ton your shirt you'll be dirty footnote he achieves Listen kid Life isn't fair learn obey & you'll succeed in Come[an]t ` Grip nucleus is frozen ` beautiful ` but frozen ` even in orbit ` must turn frozen ` beautiful & brilliant brighter than you & me & all of us ` & them 'n us ` but you and I are sometimes lost ` can't follow her ` nucleus ` may only gain outside ` margin of fame ` to insulate ` nucleus of nucleus ` and forceful burrow in ` centuries maintain ` the dominant ``` in orbit don't want to tail don't want to fail ` gravity ` attraction solves `` for us Dam/pen/ed) water |et me hear your light sent back through g|ass except for silver sometimes go|d you kept o kept through so many names in just one bow| you do not rub your bones like fish in quest of mates between sunken subway poles or tick bubbles from your ass with herr-in\g\ I never see those fish and did not see your screamin\g\ on my kitchen counter for-get-tin\g\ you swam around same five seconds didn't even have a stove |
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