Matthew Rohrer

POEM

 

I love you. You lifted up

a car and moved it

into the sea for me

 

so i could park

and eat squid

with nothing on

 

and then you hit me

while i squatted

over the archaic toilet

 

in the madness

I could have killed you

or screwed the waitress

 

I stood before the mirror

late at night

in our parents' house

 

staring into my eyes

who are you?

you just had sex

 

for the fifth time,

the sixth time

I used to remember

 

what time each time

was, i counted

up to 30 or 35

 

I grabbed you

and threw you

to the baked clay

 

You punched my eye

it made a sound

like *pock* 

 

which distracted us

from the fight

the sound was perfect

 

then I pulled your feet

out from under you

and you hit your head

 

on Italy -- you floated

down the Po

I lay on the couch

 

and read about you

breathing miraculously

underwater

 

and Kim

who was large

for a girl

 

but cute--

big boned

came to me one night

 

What do you mean

she's big boned? you said

Dinosaurs are big boned

 

her white punk hair

at sea

on the swell

 

a terrible gift

i looked in the mirror

but couldn't meet my eyes

 

there, and Kim

stepped away

into a bottle of wine

 

 

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