Sunday, August 29, 2021

Brutus Van Gogh

 


I am jealous of the lives of ordinary people

of their rolling achievements

if only there were a way to paint them

turn the light upon some of  these

common gardenias and 

 hold them still in the placid gold


One of the boys 

sitting next to me in the VA

had a tattoo of 

Barney the dinosaur on 

his ropey forearm

I want to know

I want to know why and 

what the fuck it means


My own scratchings are 

ugly dull and mostly free

never get a tattoo a judge 

is going to see

that's  what Dad said to me


There's a redhead down the hall

who looks as tough as a little truck

  but has little rainbows

and unicorns on her pelt

  The little pictures should make 

thinking people keep their distance


I went walking the other day

and a woman gasped a little

when she rounded the corner on me

I had a shirt on, but she 

probably saw what's 

under all this

bullshit



 


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