a different acrostic entry for LIZZY'S FUN/SILLYCHALLENGE,
as I find most things both fun and silly
Black fleeting fragments of happiness
Fuck is a really bad word if you´re a mormon
Underneath the wooden stairs I used to say bad words
No you can´t say fuck
No you can´t say feck either!
You´re such a retard my sister sighed
Telling a lie was also really bad if you were five
Hell was nothing, you could end up in much worse places
I knew there could be nothing worse than nothing
No way would I be caught telling a lie, even when my brother tricked me into believing I was invisible and I tested it by walking around naked
Going around naked in our house was of course totally unacceptable
So I never told them that I was in fact truly invisible
Terry Mc Dermott used to be my hero
He had a fantastic mustache and played for Liverpool
And I used to kiss his hairy lips above my bed every time I felt bad
Terry was my everything, even after I discovered that it hadn´t actually been Terry but this other dude on that poster
My mother used to worry about me a lot
After church she liked to update everyone on my last misbehaviour
Kayla, my older sister, was close to perfect
Even after she got herself pregnant with a missionary who´s name was Elvis
Young missionaries used to love to come to our house for dinner on Sundays
On some Sundays we could be close to twenty people by the dinner table
Uncle Edward was the main reason for our popularity I think, he used to end every food-blessing with a loud fart
Certain jerks and assholes will always appear in ones childhood
Reappearing at school reunions disfigured after plastic surgeries
Yearning for anyone's approval so that they can formally stop being known as the jerk and the asshole
On such an occasion I ran into a guy who used to be known as Tommy
Under the knife of some skilled surgeon he had transformed into Tammy
Tammy was a brilliant name change I told him, and I just knew that this person may never have believed in nothingness
Later in life I came to discover that my own fear of nothingness had vanished
On occasions I still say fuck without the e
Underneath almost every believed truth lies a little lie
Don´t misunderstand now and think that everything told above are lies, they´re not, and being invisible as I am I wrote this piece completely naked in my backyard.
Poetry by Emelén
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Written on 2009-06-24 at 20:10
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