The Do-Over. Kathleen Ossip

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СКАЧАТЬ you lately, then She will not die.

      Dear , rescue her

      or she won’t be rescued.

      Her breath a flint. Born to the lifespan of a wasp.

Lyric

      1.

      Squirrels are eating my porch it’s their world too

      I call the exterminator

      Every day brings filthy compromise

      //

      I call the vet the cat’s old enough to be neutered

      (Just because I’m bigger than he is

      Even though he didn’t ask me to take him home

      Rarely do the small and mute have things the way they want them)

      //

      Everyone’s tired of my patience my turmoil has carried me this far

      EVERY DAY BRINGS FILTHY COMPROMISE

      //

      When I look a cow or pig in the eyes, I see a person

      I don’t feel that way about salmon

      I have kept I have lost my religious faith I’m eating a salmon

      The salmon died in terror and agony I’m eating him with a vinegar sauce

      //

       You’ll like what you are told to like

      This we call the reality effect

      So many I could love and do not so many I could kill and do not

      And walk through the world wearing this white face

      (w/moisturizer serums & mascara)

      //

      I don’t know anything I observe so closely I haven’t lived

      I thought I knew death what did I know

      Sylvia and Anne thought they knew death they didn’t know anything

      (Didn’t know they were going to die anyway?)

      //

      Her body one long tube with an overgrowth in the middle

      My friend to be even one more day with you.

      //

      (Every day brings filthy compromise.)

      //

      I came from salt water in August I swim in salt water

      Cancer is my default horror

      Fear is not the way for me now I need something bigger?

       There’s a crowd of people and animals heading westward on the run

       There’s a pack of beasts and people heading westward on the run

       Powerless under the moon powerless under the sun

      2.

      Meaning is made—Wonder has no shade

      (Says a placard partway down the Grand Canyon)

      These dark days the clouds hide the sun.

      Gravity’s a bright snare

      (Say I, standing on the edge of the North Rim)

      To keep us locked here.

      3.

      At the mouth of the ravine (we are home now)

      the Weckquaesgeeks camped

      They fished swam collected oysters and clamshells planted corn and possibly tobacco

      We walk every day through a haunted house

      //

      Dear values absurd chaotic and tight,

      I never want to forget how this feels I will of course forget

      //

      Dear values absurd chaotic and tight,

      Appraisal makes me nervous aggression makes me mad is true

      The reality effect is true

      Her body one long tube with an overgrowth in the middle is true

      I can stare and stare and still not see it (truth) is true

      My life is true my death is true the ravine is true

      //

      I wouldn’t pay slave wages I wouldn’t sit down and have lunch with

      THEWOMANWHOCLEANS“MY”HOUSE

      without checking my texts

      Modesty kindness humility acceptance these too are genius

      the kinds we need now

      CALM DOWN YOU’RE NOT AS SMART AS YOU THINK YOU ARE

      //

      This one has no soul and that one has no soul Death is OK for some

      In the summer of economic collapse in the summer of widespread famine

      (can’t bear to look back have done that in last book)

      I execute I exfoliate I Gothicize

      //

      What caused the economic collapse me so feckless and dreamy

      I’ve been irresponsible I have no pension I will die in poverty

      I’m a poetess I’ll be killed and eaten I have no money

      I make a beeline for the essential I think I’m so great

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