I want to write a $10 poem
I want to smoke all of the cigarettes
I want to sit on this blanket
I got this blanket when I was born
and on it you can sometimes make out the names of old strange women
strange women I don't know,
who made patches for it,
and one embroidered balllooons
and one did bears
and one did a bible verse
and one, one did a map of idaho
and all that's left of that is a dot in navyblue thread where boise is
and a couple of scraggling rivers.
So I think that's sort of beautiful.
but I want to write a $10 poem, for nickey
because she said every time you spend five dollars, you should have to make a poem
and then she said, I don't even write poems
so I can't do this with you
start this project, where everytime we spend five dollars we have to write a poem, and we have to
she said, what about when we pay rent? and this is after I said, no
no
every time we spend ten dollars
we'll write a poem
so she said, everytime we pay rent we'll have to write twenty poems
* * * *
so we thought about it for a few seconds
till she said, I don't write poetry.
(but she said it with a flurry of ellipses)
Well neither do I but I can write
a $10 poem
I think
is what I said
