MIXED EMOTIONS

 

I had mixed emotions about her

On one hand I loved her

On the other hand I hated her

so I decided to let it die slowly.

 

I can ignore myself and her

It’ll save me some problems

 

I won’t have to eat at the table

and say grace or use a fork

or die after a Freudian nightmare.

 

I left South Sucatash

Now I live in a cardboard box
beneath the ergot fungi

on a piece of rye bread.

 

Author's Notes/Comments: 

Wrote this one in the summer of 1982.

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allets's picture

Bottomed Out

"Dying ...after a Freudian nightmare" Is that a thing? A psychopoetic way to go, huh? Beneath fungi on rye?  Gotta look up to see bottom, somehow, seems not too bad. That's a whole new "blues" level there - :D


 

 

Ground's picture

Ha!

Good one


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