2 from me, not you.

i can't explain it
nor will i even try to
long live fake dada.

***
LA LA LA LA

she confessed
to me that
the majority
of the time
when she's
walkin' around,
carl orff's "carmina burana"
is bein' synapsed
& shot around
at high volumes
on the inside of
her brain.
***

GRANDPA?

was just told
a story about
my papa
walkin' down
meadowbrook drive
in ft. worth, texas
during the dead
of the fuckin' night
wearin' just
a bathin' suit
& a pair of boots
while clutchin' a
pitcher of beer
in his hands.

and they said her name was goofy.

she repeats
little snippets
of sentences
3, 4, 5
times in a row
in short
rapid-fire bursts

she refuses
to drink water
out of a bottle,
the water
must be poured
into a glass

she sleeps
on the couch
in the den
more often than
she sleeps
in her bed

obsessive
crocheter

she has had
the same car since
i was a baby,
possibly longer,
& i'm almost 30
(that god damn car looks better than she does)

if given the
opportunity
i think
she would
fuck sean connery

growin' up
i believed
she loved the
chicago cubs baseball team
more than
life itself

i'm fairly
certain that
her parents
were german

i do know
that she was
raised
on a farm

come time to
pay a bill,
which is done
within a day or two
upon reception,
she goes into
grandpa's study,
gets out the checkbook,
fills out the check,
& commences to shove
that motherfucker
in the mailbox
real quick like

once when i was
a little, little boy
grandpa told me to
call her goofy
because she was
actin' silly

the name stuck.

untitled bullshit.

if my mother
was a
prostitute
i wouldn't
be able to
help but
wonder if
she made
$$$
off her
pregnancy.

what did he just say?

was watching
a movie on tv with
my grandma

not sure what
the movie was
about, but
i think
i remember it
taking place during
the 1800's

there was
a part in
the movie, where
a little boy
got into an
argument with
his mom &
calls her a
"god damned
nigger lover"

i was just
a kid when i
saw this, &
was kinda shocked
about hearing
the word
nigger
on tv

as soon as
the boy on
the tv said
what he said,
my grandma said
"i can't believe
they just said
god damn
on tv
like that"