Ben's
work has appeared in The Quarterly Review of Literature, The
Atlanta, Pedestal Magazine, and many other journals. He is
a retired engineer from Flushing, New York. |
© 2004 Ben Passikoff
BIO
Here's the deal.
Your mother holds your toes,
tush, etcetera,
bellywarm,,
until, fishwiggly,
you are expressed.
Where you were circle,
you now exist in squares;
repeat old oxygen;
labor old,
dying of days.
Mid overkapping
atonalities
of manic car alarms,
the urban furies hurtle you
to choice of morgues.
Ending is expensive:
conveyor carpentry,
thickness of lilies,
going away music.
Candles are chosen.
Ministers earn.
Overcoats huddle under
a blooming of umbrellas.
A momentary
disturbance of earth.
Clods on the coffin.
Omega to mother.
HYMN
(HIM) TO PRINCESS DIANA
Your Thyness,
public blond sister,
royal neurotic of
smile tabloidal
and coif sustained
by old colonies:
channeled by Charon
in mangled Mercedes
to beauty salon
of endless chairs:
while printed millions
mourn your slim beak
in frontpage dolor.
All poems are copyrighted property of Ben Passikoff.
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