I was asked to write about a girl I’d never had at all-
It was an easy enough task.
I haven’t written about anything else since I can remember.
I’ve imagined her as the source behind all of Whitman’s Eidolins
And every young boy’s first faustian plea-
I’ve imagined her as the reason I sold my soul to a wooden box and torch songs-
and forty thousand thimbles full of tequila.
I addressed her earlier today when I should’ve been relating my own moral codex-
To Mitchell’s ‘The Other Bird.’
I had, instead, stumbled across the Blue Tail Fly and thought of how could I slip that into-
A simple (humbly shouted) mantra about getting her to step outside with me.
What a beautiful day to try,
To destroy the things that have left you ary-
You’re just as marvelous as you are shy
We’ll brush away that blue-tail fly,
It’s alright-alright-alright.
How could I address her without the least bit of Americana?
Though, I highly doubt trading spit with me constitutes marvelous dissent.
It might- but only in the context that she’d be as weary of those estival fumes-
Those threadbare summers.
The divulsion from stick wars to stick wars that end with-
a coral flush and real bruises.
That business of cruelty as William Carlos Williams describes it.
It’d be easy to talk about her throughout every-day.
I could tell you that she’d have the incantations to make nature act,
She would have never seen a tornado outside of a television,
but she’d say they emit a wonderful cobalt blue when they’re intruding on peace and plain.
She might even chalk them up to table-legs prone to constant spiraling and amorphous shape-
And up there we’d be- exchanging comments on the land beneath
She’d drink her coffee without any sugar
But, I’d offer it every time
While I focused on keeping my nerves from making the table shake-
Avoiding upsetting anything,
that might get to make it to her lips.
I’d tell her I’ve seen those blocks
Emitted those midnight-shrieks
Pulled from those basement-band symposiums
Tailored those half-alpha pinko tongues
If it made her comfortable with my lack of attention,
My eyes and mind having been reserved for that night-
When she runs in with a copy of The Love Song of J.Alfred Pufrock
Yelling- ‘Hey, isn’t this the only poem you give a fuck about?’
And I slap it out of her hands.