The aeroplane is shaped like a bird
Or a giant mechanical penis
My father escorts my mother
From girlhood to unhappiness
?
A dragonfly has iridescent wings
Shorn, it?s a lowly pismire
Plucked of arms and legs
A throbbing red pepperpod
?
Baby, she?s a girl
Pinkly propped as a doll
Baby, she?s a pearl
An ulcer in the oyster of God
?
Cry little baby clam cry
The steam has opened your eyes
Your secret darkly hidden
The razor is sharpening the knife
?
Abandoned taro-leaf boat
Its lonely black sail broken
The corpses are fat and bejeweled
The hull is thoroughly rotten
?
The worm has entered the ear
And out the nose of my father
Cleaned the pelvis of my mother
And ringed around her fingerbone
?
One child beats a bedpan
One beats a fishhook out of wire
One beats his half sister on the head
Oh, teach us to fish and love
?
Don?t say her boudoir is too narrow
She could sleep but in one cold bed
Don?t say you own many horses
We escaped on her skinny mare?s back
?
Man is good said Meng-Tzu
We must cultivate their natures
Man is evil said Hsun-Tzu
There?s a worm in the human heart
?
He gleaned a beaded purse from Hong Kong
He procured an oval fan from Taiwan
She married him for a green card
He abandoned her for a blonde
?
My grandmother is calling her goslings
My mother is summoning her hens
The sun has vanished into the ocean
The moon has drowned in the fen
?
Discs of jade for her eyelids
A lozenge of pearl for her throat
Lapis and kudzu in her nostrils
They will rob her again and again
Source: http://feeds.poetryfoundation.org/~r/PoetryFoundation/PoemOfTheDayText/~3/GXTohzdp0Ns/244500
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