10-09-2013, 01:27 AM
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I met Hannah Gamble,
where else, but at a cocktail party.
Like John Berryman,
I, too, was heavy bored.
But Hannah didn't bore me.
She used the word "fuck" in front
of an old lady
that's heard that word a hundred
kahundred times!
However,
when Hannah said it,
she was highly impressed.
Being me,
and in such close approximation
to the fully waxed moon
that is Hannah Gamble:
I made a clever euphemism
regarding a cock crowing at midnight.
All the poetry editors in the room
instantly removed from their pockets,
portable phones,
assuring the socially mediumed public
that I—
Not being John Berryman,
but just as heavy bored—
was not as clever as I thought.
Being the literal minded fellow that I am,
I raced home crying
a river as long as the Mississippi;
but deciding not to jump
so far down into self-pity:
I simply wrote another poem,
nowhere as close and clever as Hannah and her
fucks.
I met Hannah Gamble,
where else, but at a cocktail party.
Like John Berryman,
I, too, was heavy bored.
But Hannah didn't bore me.
She used the word "fuck" in front
of an old lady
that's heard that word a hundred
kahundred times!
However,
when Hannah said it,
she was highly impressed.
Being me,
and in such close approximation
to the fully waxed moon
that is Hannah Gamble:
I made a clever euphemism
regarding a cock crowing at midnight.
All the poetry editors in the room
instantly removed from their pockets,
portable phones,
assuring the socially mediumed public
that I—
Not being John Berryman,
but just as heavy bored—
was not as clever as I thought.
Being the literal minded fellow that I am,
I raced home crying
a river as long as the Mississippi;
but deciding not to jump
so far down into self-pity:
I simply wrote another poem,
nowhere as close and clever as Hannah and her
fucks.
