Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Improv: Gwendolyn Brooks "The Rites for Cousin Vit"

Carried her happiness in hysterics.
Kicked the casket to the alley, on the verge
of holding her. That stuff of pregnancy and
contrition with the boltwork guitars--it's too
much. Surmise a slop of bad wine and hiss
like an egg in sunshine.
Go back to the bars she knew and must emerge.
The squeaking love-room's
repose talks of snake-hips and is,
and is, and is.

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