Birthday Girl With Possum by Brendan Constantine

Author:Brendan Constantine
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Poetry / American / General
ISBN: 978-1-935904-36-6
Publisher: Write Bloody Publishing

A Thousand Chandeliers O.B.O.

A grape fell out of my mouth

looking up at your Empire

State Building costume

What windows were your eyes

behind, your mouth I could barely

hear you over the tourists

waving from your observation deck

Nobody recognized my Tower

of Babylon hoop dress, but

people said it was pretty One girl –

the Bank of China in Hong Kong –

said at least I didn’t cram it down

everyone’s throat like the World

Trade Center husband & wife

I don’t think they could see thru

their masks; they just stood there,

not talking, not touching

their champagne You gotta’ feel

bad when people blow it like that,

how’s anyone supposed to know

when it’s safe to laugh at God

again Is it true you went home

with the Duomo di Milano

He was hittin’ the Jäger pretty early

I hope you drove I got a cab before

the real partying started It’s still

hard for me to watch that kind

of drinking Takes me back

to when I went for ages without

bathing or remembering who I loved,

when I slept where I fell

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