The BlueIris Semi-Nightly Poetry Break, 1/16/08

[BlueIris]

"Events"

The night they find two women in a man's trunk
I watch "Inside Deep Throat" in my living room
At work the next day, I practice relaxing the muscles
at the back of my mouth
My boss asks me if anything is wrong
I picture what I look like in the mirror of the apartment
where I have been giving happy endings massages
My sister calls to say she found a lump in her right breast
The man I am seeing sends me roses
They are lined like legs with bruises
My next customer pulls out a gun
in the shape of a part of the female anatomy
I imagine my sister's husband going over her
breasts at night, some song
playing on the radio, the men I have loved
gathered at the window like moths
At work the next day, there are holes
in the roses the size of small mouths

—Kate Hall

[Tuesday Afternoon]

1. ~

:kick:

[BlueIris]

2. Ah, Tuesday. My best poster.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. My dear BlueIris!

What an interesting bunch of images this has...

Even though I don't fully understand the poem, still I like it!

Thank you...

:)

[BlueIris]

4. Well, I thought it was time for some poems that aren't as "concrete" as some of my others have been.

[BlueIris]

5. Kick. Enjoy it, people,

tomorrow's poem makes this one look like a nursery rhyme.

[Westegg]

6. Excellent, excellent.

[BlueIris]

7. Ah, Westegg. Hee. nt