afterwards

After chemo

that old hair, caked with human mating;

that solitary s**t that afro sheen

and jerry-curl activator turned wellborn and fitted.

I eulogize you as you drip away

the plastic bodied, dissolved

into that well defined gullet.

(I still have the afro pic I bought

from Charlie Drag in Trinidad

his glowing hashish eyes; his

shining handle bars. His bike

in the dark dance. But sickness

makes your long brows glisten..

so much so, your daughter runs her

hands through the top of it

brushing aside your sweat and stink

then in large, true clumps

like a Phoenician princess

Zeus on his white bull,

carries it off.

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[Corset]

...and that is why I buy suave shampoo, because on the bottle it has one of those ribbons we have all come to understand hand out ponytails to the most beautiful people in the world.

[h d e rushin]

I love and miss you.....dana

[Corset]

I had to go look at the bottle, it's actually Pantene :P
but just goes to show you how easy it is for me to lie if I believe it's the truth...miss you back :)

[Emily B]

Somewhere in the middle of all the good and bad is poetry. And that's where I find you.

My brother hanged himself last week. We laid him to rest on Thursday. But I saw his eyes in the face of his teenage son who is a stranger to me. Life is weird.

[h d e rushin]

I remember a meeting of friends (around holiday time I think) when the child of a friend was sitting near me and I referred to him as his dad..almost to the point that we laughed at things that happened way before he was even born. Souls are just reluctant people but parading amongst the living forgoing little or no control over possessions or locations. his father was my in high school, my best friend but he's been gone for over 20 years now.
As for suicide I can only embrace the recall of the living, offer to you my deepest sorrow and allow you the power of his memory. 'Life is a weird remorse". But these are troubled times. Love always...dana

[Emily B]

a hundred times, it could have been me. But somehow i survived

[Corset]

no it couldn't cause it should never be you, you still have to much poetry in you, too much poetry that still knows how beautiful this world can be.

[Emily B]

Thanks for that. I need to spend more time in the company of poets.