Another Garden Poem I open an book my old father just gave me to find another fucking garden poem, about coreopsis and lantana and black-eyed susans, and though these are all fine poetic names I am consumed by a desire to shove the flowers themselves up the poet's fundament, to see all of them turn into poison sumac as she caresses them -- this time the poet is a she -- to have the jonquil turn into an enormous Venus flytrap and sloppily devour her, this poet who has written the 40,000th poem this year about flowers, and her fucking ancestors, and little intimations of Jesus probably -- I can't read it to the end -- and if Wordsworth were here he'd drop a decorative concrete fucking garden angel on her skull, because she has forced me to become passive- aggressive, which I have never been before, and my father who gave me the book is outside sweating like a Brazilian ironworker trying to plant the butterfly bush I gave him for his birthday, which he shouldn't be doing because of his 70-year-old heart, but I am going to let him do it, I'm just so fucking pissed at everybody. |