Poem of the Day
Study of Children
By Asha Futterman
did you know
that you all work for me?
I asked them as a joke
did you know
that you all work for me?
I asked them as a joke
You flop down into the personal
Like a triumph of years standing on end
Here the noiseless mind
Is like a quiet wind
I’m not going to cry all the time
nor shall I laugh all the time,
I don’t prefer one “strain” to another.
After the first glass of vodka
you can accept just about anything
of life even your own mysteriousness
The night paints inhaling smoke and semen.
The frail face pulses like a parachute,
corridors of shakes melting from the boot
A whispering far away
heard by the poet in a bower
of flesh his limbs stir
I’m getting tired of not wearing underwear
and then again I like it
strolling along
We join the animals
not when we fuck
or shit
I am stuck in traffic in a taxicab
which is typical
and not just of modern life
Picasso made me tough and quick, and the world;
just as in a minute plane trees are knocked down
outside my window by a crew of creators.