3 Poems

By M.A. Internicola

 

 

 

GOOSE

BLACKOUT

WARREN HAYES

 

 

GOOSE

 

ain't a little bit off
she's a lotta bit off

in her pink h & m jacket

and steve madden shoes

 

she hardly drinks on weekdays

follows weight watchers

people

her mother

her friends at work

 

goose falls asleep at 9:30 every night

her walls are white

the same color as forever

 

i sit on the couch and try not

to fuck up the cushions

i smoke all day while she's on the job

i ash in the bowls she uses for soup

 

now 25, she wants to meet a boy who

doesn't mind being tied down,

an anchor in her glass of water

she tells me she can't take it anymore

when i call her fat ass

that only happen once

she won't wear a wig

she won't do shots at the bar anymore

she doesn't like my clothes anymore either

 

side by side in her bed, she says she can smell

my breath through my nostrils

you smell like cigarettes she tells me

i don't want you smoking in here,

there's pubic hair everywhere,

quit snotting in the shower,

using my razor,

buy some tp,

you don't like anybody,

get a job,

pay some rent,

i want you to make plans,

i love you,

call me if you're gonna be out all night,

i want babies,

michael doesn't want to marry me,

throw your sneakers out,

get new ones,

guys hit on me all the time when i'm out,

i want diamond earrings,

you're not funny anymore,

why aren't you writing,

quit yelling,

my stomach hurts,

my mother is so smart,

mark and sandra are coming in,

get a place of your own,

don't eat my food,

no newspapers on the blankets,

you're a cliché,

you never make any sense,

i hate my clothes,

all the girls at work have nice everything,

it's not even,

your not good in bed anymore,

i feel bad for my dad,

for olivia,

i feel like an old married couple,

my closet is too small,

don't rent porno under my name anymore,

your like your father,

i want ice cream,

why can't ever do what i want to do,

my people magazine didn't come,

i want a coffee and toasted bagel with butter,

my show's on,

lisa wants to know if you can watch sean on friday,

you don't talk,

turn down the t.v.,

i forgot to take my pill,

i'm fat,

no eating past ten,

i miss my grandpa,

come to the jersey shore and see my parents with me,

you never come through,

what do you want to eat,

you're a racist,

i want a cat

 

do you think about me all the time she asks

 

huh, i answer looking at the ugly cabinet on the wall,

the pictures of us happy in paris,

in vegas,

in italy,

in key west together

 

what she says

 

i wonder why i love you at all i tell her

you cut me a million ways

 

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BLACKOUT

 

the best girls always loved me till' i changed

my scene. they push lazy out the door with my

piss and vinegar and want to see me in my worst

state to kick me when i'm down. they don't

know nothing bout' saving me. the heat is on.

the power is on everywhere cept' chelsea and my

block: blacks, pr's, gays, and whatever you

call people like me. the hipsters are bullshit.

the lower east side is trust fund heaven. junior

says at least the chicks uptown know their deal.

so keep your brooklyn t-shirts and gas station hats,

those cute little beat up shoes you got for three bucks.

it took you an hour to pick out your shitty outfit just

to say you didn't care what you looked like anyway.

your boyfriend and you are the biggest fucking posers

in the world. 9:03 the lights came on and your boyfriend

and you are still the biggest fucking posers in the world.

 

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WARREN HAYES

i want to write
like warren hayes
plays his guitar.

it's enough to
make the three
used rubbers on
the floor have feelings,
enough to make those
twenty butts in the
ashtray get up and dance.

 

 

 

 

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A novelist, M.A. Internicola is the author of three previous novels, KISS ME
BABY, SUNFLOWERS!, CHAZ, and ALL OUR SKIES ARE BLUE. The poems included here are from two separate poetry books, MALISM and THE DARKEST PLACE IS UNDER A STREETLIGHT, both completed early 2004. His poems, prose and fiction have appeared or are forthcoming in Subterranean Quarterly, Slow Trains, Open Wide Magazine, Edifice Wrecked, The 2nd Hand, Caffeine Magazine, The God Particle, among others.  He lives in New York City.

 

 

 

 

 

 


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