AntiPoem 36
“Silent Mercies”
(Poet’s Instruction: Softly play in the background Mario Lanza singing
“Your Tiny Hand Is Frozen” from Puccini’s La Boheme, while reading this AntiPoem)
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Look over there.
See the stunned grandmother knitting,
Not speaking a word neither, nor listening,
Pretending she’s okay when she isn’t.
Notice the moribund listing grandfather,
Deep in his leather chair, stroked-stricken, pissing,
In deep shock over...
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