On 3/10/2011 7:48 AM, Barry Alpert wrote:
> DECHAINEES
>
> via Raymond Vouillamoz
>
>
> Shut up porn star. You’re not my mom.
> Grandma called me Genevieve.
> Hello Alzheimer.
>
> My fairies. We’d given up.
> They pretend not to see me.
> They want to smother me.
>
> Stop the sound.
> Now sound, stop the image.
> Beep. Now sound and image.
>
> We’re looking for a ghost.
> Happy birthday. Here, a gift.
> A little baby. Oh, you shouldn’t have.
>
> Your parents wanted you enough to risk
> that you’d be like me.
>
>
Good laughs but the speaker seems somehow weirdly real. And Doug has it
right about the punch line.
--Bob
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