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Infatuation, More Honestly


06.24.13 Posted in words to linger on by


KJ Hannah Greenberg’s most recent poem to appear here was The Physical That Was You (May 2013).

Infatuation, More Honestly
By KJ Hannah Greenberg

Infatuation, more honestly, could stuff trombones,
Disassemble verbal hyjinks, the likes of which might
Readily make my mind teeter yes to no, right to wrong,
Good to bad, stay to leave, pro to con, slip a little.

Slime’s needed whenever other, more appropriate means exist,
For eye candy along highways, running unpleasant conduits,
Next to knowingly older hills, or lacey, loosed things,
Like pillows, piles of tissue paper, sparklers.

I said, “never;” you never asked “always,” just suggested twining,
Frozen hair, rags grown from money, drugged exemplars,
Human shards disinterred before such sports as ours made
Glass-eyed cats mimic miniature manikens.

Machine-like days, him and me, he and she, us and they,
Hold no new career games, frightened carcasses, or elk.
Sometimes, morning dew’s greasy, dolphin-perch knives tip
PR departments into making big deals of lauding friends.



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