Showing posts with label tongue in cheek. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tongue in cheek. Show all posts

Saturday, June 4, 2016

The Bastard






"Hey babe, what's in your eyes?
I saw them flashing like airplane lights.
...What's that laughing in your smile?
...If that's your love, just leave me blind..."
~Jagger-Richards, You Got The Silver



The Bastard





It wasn't enough
performing for the
shell-game professors
and small-time grocers
you called family.
O no.

It wasn't enough
to scrub your drawers,
peel your cow's-tongue,
wait graveyard tables
to feed the child.
O no,

you had to call me
'an authoress.'

A bastard could never
belong in your world
unless it was you.



 ~June 2016





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Image: Tables for Ladies, 1930, by Edward Hopper  Fair use via wikiart.org