Spiel
the procedure give me catastrophe give me wailing give me bobbleheads with hair on fire and toothpicks poked into their eyes i want to make a scene and paste it to a table with screaming wheels i can drive back to my youth on the day they shoved that needle up the base of my spine to extract any trace of comfort from my brain identity we call these orange handled scissors the chicken scissors my grandmother used them to cut up chickens for frying do things become what you name them? when i was born my father called me his little farmer but i became an artist maybe jimmy harrison got it right 53 years ago in the parking lot outside our high school theater i played the lead role in The Importance of Being Earnest yet i did not become Earnest but jimmy took a baseball bat to the windshield of my first car and called me cocksucker |