cursing the obscurity

"Cursing the Obscurity," August 23, 2022 (#235)

title from Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life by Steve Almond (2010)

Tar Baby by Toni Morrison (1981)

The Tar Baby by Jerome Charyn (1973)

Nice Big American Baby by Judy Budnitz (2004)

Cursing the Obscurity

Why can’t everybody settle down, relax, have a nice simple

girl from nowhere with sugar cones instead of boobs,

her slipping down, whirling around and vanishing in the pipes?

With warm white china with a single band of gold around,

all I came up with was a raggy blue cover with bleeding type

sewing a swaddling cloth, sewing a shroud. I think they go to

the hands of any man. Whatever it took—knife blades or

dipsomania, and my six weeks of being a dyke, all of which

are stacked to the rafters, but no one will buy them--

maybe it’ll taste bad, but it’s only for one night. We can

invent, distribute, proctor, read, grade, and destroy

it by constant handling, by the exposure to air.

From here.

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