a poem of banned words..

from the cdc website of banned words.

for Verna Kilroy who said that I was too ugly to take her to the prom. Well, I write poems now.

Bad poems since I am an angry inventor. I can't remember what I had for breakfast but I take it

all back. I'm old fashioned like that. I kept a brick on the front seat of my mothers car for years

just in case there was pain I couldn't withdraw from; just in case there was purpose

one could build from torture. I will visit you later:

Love is a perfumed FETUS. It can hear and breath in piss. . It will be soft and

assumed; open as leaves. It is dangerous as wood ENDANGERES  the giant forest. Eventually it will

return to VULNERABLE dreams. It will make a fist in the amniotic belly. Out of sheer madness

it will gather the TRANSGENDER in the blood speak nativity. With it's horizons still worth a quarter,

it will slither and coo until the ENTITLEMENT of want

food stamps, section 8, Medicaid, a warm cot, Emphimil wrangles with a noisy insistence. But it will grow

into a nice girl. Go to school. Learn to read. It will EVIDENCE BASED, grow a large booty. Lap dance

rich Arab men. Drag it's dappled-dung wings along the victimless pole dance. It will pocket blood from

the pimp, loot from the john, sympathy from the onlooker, compassion from the reverend,

forgiveness from the saints 

and good lovin for the rest of us.

Reviews

[emmajoy]

You convert truth and the unbeautiful into the absolute, you do, sir.. and on a day that needed no less a light than you gave. 'Words' are letters without the 'S' that could easily cut through the Fake, perhaps? Surely they give clues/facts that step Future forward instead of Past -yet are learned by experience. You use words that spell themselves into memories.. and how i love them.. Happy everything, somewhat belatedly. Me.

(Edited review - some of what i'd left was jumble)

[h d e rushin]

I finally made it back home after spending some needed time in a warmer climate than Detroit is today....lol. Thank you my friend for those kind remakrs.

[emmajoy]

Hope you feel much better for it, dana. Is nasty cold here in the UK too... anyone would think it was Winter!

[Coyote Poetry]

This is poetry my friend. Took the reader to real and realistic places. People want results today. Forgot people need opportunity. A outstanding poem.
Coyote

[h d e rushin]

thank you my friend for those kind remarks.....and Happy Holidays to you / dana

[Coyote Poetry]

Merry Christmas and have a safe and friend New year dear friend. You are welcome.

[Einstein Noodle]

i could not pass up the title...perfect hook for me! the intent throughout thrilled me in its brashness and in your face attitude ..(old hippies love a rebellion) what can i say..you hit all the points .. and tho i don't give them..i simply must put 100 in that little box for this one .. the personifications with the fetus are brilliant ..and i think of the brutality of love that is torn away and trampled as nothing into red plastic bags of "Medical Waste" ... man this should be printed ..i think groups can discuss it for hours ..
E.

[h d e rushin]

your insight is the stuff of legend my friend. thanks for those kind remarks this Christmas morning....and peace to you and yours for a poetic new year.....dana

[Einstein Noodle]

thank you Dana :) ..................

[jacob erin-cilberto]

you are the best of us, i believe, dana.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

good lovin' for the rest of us...

and some of us just write of what it was in the old days...all that real life, we put into words...but is the writing and are we worth anything more than a bucket of warm piss? ah, who knows...
i like how you make the mundane so poetic...
you always move me.

[h d e rushin]

dearest Jacob...thanks for those wonderful words my friend..and peace to you on this wonderful, yet snowy, Christmas morning....dana

[Corset]

You have become that needle I have come to crave, you are not allowed to die and become famous, you are hereby ordered to stay right where I can keep an evil eye on you, maybe two if the bad one doesn't shut on me during the task. promise me to live and write forever, I will hold you to it you know and haunt you in the afterlife like the shameless wanton stalker I've been accused of, and you will allow it, because you know the human of me

[Corset]

I have the right to command you because you said you would do whatever I say...have you forgotten this already? p[ffft see how you are? :)

[h d e rushin]

I shall guard these words my love, like a pearl. And I do remember saying that.......And it's true. When we write poetry, we are never far away from belief and we are closer to truth than we will ever be.....Peace to you my friend on this wonderful Christmas morning....dana

[Corset]

I am so relieved to see you well and here. Merry Christmas to you too darlin' may all your days be Very Merry and Bright XD

[BBP]

It will pocket blood from
the pimp, loot from the john, sympathy from the onlooker, compassion from the reverend,
forgiveness from the saints

and good lovin for the rest of us


I really dug this verse! And I can relate to poem in it's entirety, you have a nice way with harsh words.

[h d e rushin]

thank you BBP for those kind remarks...and Happy Holidays to you my friend....dana