Where’d My Uterus
Go?
with all those lingering falling down
factories, that sad used up city,
and of course Michael Moore
is there, patron of
like an angry maternal deity
persistently knocking
at the gate of the still-born nation, the Corporation,
his heroic face in the window, his sincere heart fat
with is own secret hoard
of uninterviewed, uncatechized
complicities.
Or how about, even weirder, that scary
Himalayan monster,
most lonely and difficult mountain, that’s where my daydreaming
and disobedient emptiness went. A place too remote, too airless
to warrant even a normally
lyrical name, just a number and a letter, points on a map
relative to other
points on a map.
Or maybe Mount Everest,
Popular, even trashy,
though that infamous upper wind forever sheers
a little off the top, a bit of delusional snow always lifting
like thoughts striking out for
or anyplace sane, meaning warm,
but probably in fact getting nowhere, dissolving at once in the dangerous heights,
yet launching forth anyway, always just stepping free
of the ground.
That’s enough, don't you think?
Because we resign. We give up. We only ask that life
be intense, even lethal, in its instant.