A sip from the straw in the oily puddle 
of my mother's breast for breakfast 
and then a roll in the warm bowl 
hands ruffling the hemisphere of rainbows 
until the colors release 
packs of cigarettes that make me dizzy 
in the white bubble-nest 
deep in the field 
with my friend 
where we pull the flab over our heads 
our white asses stuck to the leaves 
...our ears...our arms, all shut up 
except for the slit in the cock that squirts 
tiny cross sections of lemons suspended in milk 
like hot and soothing blisters 
a form of tranquilizer raised by inhaling 
 			
                                                             Vaginas, aged 15 
ca. 1970 
 
 
 
 
 
I am the Test, the strange man 
others are locked on a bus with for five days. 
I stare at one of their body parts at a time, 
changing emotional states for each part-- 
lips--melancholy, eyes--innocence... 
Oh my God I'm 14 years old! 
What am I doing in this body?? 
ca. 1970 
 
 
 
 
 
Biting the thought, sucking 
it back like spaghetti, entrails 
infinitesimal verbal lies 
the thought, the lines 
followed backwards and backwards 
to the doorway 
of a tiny cottage... 
God's in the forest cutting wood 
but the table in the immaculate room is set. 
Upon the shining plate there lies a little 
morsel of conception. 
but I've lost my appetite 
devoid of appetite 
I don't have any appetite any more. 
God comes back, "Not hungry, eh?" 
"No, sir." 
That gets a big laugh 
people start clapping and standing up 
giving me a hand. 
I'm very grateful. They're wonderful 
though I don't understand it. 
I'm clapping too and we start kissing. 
The kissing gets serious.
  
ca. 1970 
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