Somehow I feel the bleeder, and so I soak myself in disrepair<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is the American genius, and I can\ntell her now softly that I magazined my way to France for Hershey was wiling away\nin his factory creating chocolate bars<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But before I could soften my way to the\nmost brazen image of the Arc de Triomphe I recognized the image of Melkizador\nin the soap room cleaning his ass of the brigande who fucked him the night\nbefore<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This magistrate up my ass, I am puking in\nthe sink, disrepair<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When I come back from Maine I have to live harder to the dollar\nand remember that I am not rich, not a Rockefeller, so no more money to the\nswine<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are many ways to sex it up \u2013 give\nthe foster children to the ocean, every single one, and that is enough of a\nsacrifice for the turnip and the radish<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Give one more hangover a sedative and let them know that I don\u2019t care about rosary beads!\u00a0 I don\u2019t care about the swivel chair in her office and how slowly it reclines!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Everyone has an emergency voice that they use to announce the figments they see when no one else is looking<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Everyone has a remote control voice that\nthey use to turn the channel on the dust bunnies so the record they\u2019re\nlistening to sounds more like a motorcycle motor revved up <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Everyone has truth in the voice when they\nface an emergency, like when the firefighters are forced to come because\nthere\u2019s a big big fire & they can\u2019t seem to put it out<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But Joseph Konrad in fishtown choked on\nthe smoke fumes and deathed up the Grinch chord under his motor honey<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Everyone has the death voice that they use\nwhen they are talking to the radio producers, because they can\u2019t use their own\nnatural voices, for then they would die laughing, and that wouldn\u2019t be tasteful<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Everyone has a motor city voice that they\nuse in Detroit garages making the most sanctified ford mufflers that will\neventually fall off all cars and onto the highway and then they have to use\ntheir help me voices<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Everyone has a surgical voice they use\nwhen pulling their own heart out of the chests of gophers, because gophers have\nhuman hearts, that\u2019s off the record<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Everyone has a plastic voice that sounds\nlike the noise of pasta makers in bar harbor restaurants when the mafia owned\nthe kitchens and in cigarette scratched voices they would shout to the\nbartenders that they need to slice the lemons more quickly<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Everyone has perfumed voices that they use\nto smell nicely words<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But Johnny has a seed voice, he spreads\nhis apples over the highways in Ohio\nand now they\u2019re all sprouting, the apple trees, and it\u2019s so hard to pick them<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And Jonathan has a cucumber voice and I\ncan\u2019t hear it for it\u2019s the voice of vegetable, like Johnny with his gun after\nthe first world war saying kill me, kill me<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And Debrah has a laughing goat voice because\nshe\u2019s a Capricorn and she can see her own zodiac reflection in the astrological\nmap of the world<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And Jennifer has a fiber voice, it sounds like the crunch of cereal soaked in milk, but not so much milk that the room needs redressing because the walls are the color of bleeding yellow construction paper<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Debrah Morkun<\/strong>\u2019s first full length book of poetry, Projection Machine<\/em>, was published by BlazeVox Books in April 2010. Some of her poetry has been published in Moria, Parcel, Bardic Sepulchral, Venereal Kittens<\/em>, and other journals. She is very active in the Philadelphia poetry scene and started The New Philadelphia Poets, a group committed to expanding the spaces for poetry in Philadelphia, in October 2007. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Somehow I feel the bleeder, and so I soak myself in disrepair This is the American genius, and I can tell her now softly that I magazined my way to France for Hershey was wiling away in his factory creating<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9926],"tags":[22035],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1671"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1677,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions\/1677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}