Jordaan Mason

1990 Was a Long Year& We Are All Out of Hot Water
let the stove get hot, we need heatto harm all the house with our teethi can't make dinner properlyyou are a girl with a cock?i am a boy who can't talk?warm the analphabet soup to grind all the milk out of youwe share the kitchen table, and vomit the newspaper back and forthbut: can i talk to you?i'd like a word with youdivorce lawyers i shaved my head, she shaved her head: we are newstanding near the window, she pulls her pants down, a little, and says:'do you see where i used to be a boy?'i say, 'i've had it in my mouth: i swallowed the evidence downand the children we wanted around have stayed in my stomach to drown.'she panics and says, 'this is all i have in my hands.i want to forget who i am. i want to fuck and forget who i am.'and so we swallow faucets and spit hot water between our lips, like:what would we say instead?and we gather our hair like bark from backyards wherewe force the fire to spread with sawdust carved from our headswhere did you put my autobiography?where did you put all the wood for the winter?where did you thrust all the oil we kept up?and how do we get warm how do we stay warm? From Letras Mania