03-27-2011, 06:51 AM
"BILLY touches his cigarette end to a sausage skin, burning through it, then squeezes the meat out." - stage direction from Sarah Kane's Skin
A plate of fried eggs and bacon,
plump sausages sweating like men
on a public beach in Spain.
Tomatoes red like blood, like blood,
and beneath them square
hot water bottles: two fried slices.
I wish to bury my face in the plate
and come up soaked in detritus,
like a soldier emerged from the trench,
almost lost behind fluids
drawn from a sad faced German boy.
But I just wasn't raised that way.
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A plate of fried eggs and bacon,
plump sausages sweating like men
on a public beach in Spain.
Tomatoes red like blood, like blood,
and beneath them square
hot water bottles: two fried slices.
I wish to bury my face in the plate
and come up soaked in detritus,
like a soldier emerged from the trench,
almost lost behind fluids
drawn from a sad faced German boy.
But I just wasn't raised that way.
"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges." - Gene Wolfe