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Like Expectant Nobelists

Posted by Publicinfoproject on 9/27/2010 5:02:00 AM |

Written by: Publicinfoproject


We gather again


Like we gathered last season


To wait return of wine bearer.


Drenched with sweat of expectation


We sweat in anticipation.


Our minds nibble at expectation of wine


Like minds of expectant Nobelists


Nibbling at expectation of laurel.


Season after season


Wine bearer from far land


Return for merriment


On mother’s nudity,


Made nude by our hands.


Wine bearer soon


Will saunter across father’s obi


Into mother’s unwilling crotch.


We,


Offspring of denuded motherhood


Will scramble to drink from wine gourd.


We swallowed messages of Moses,


Charades of chastity,


We swallowed holy hogwash.


We will swallow again


Liquor from far land,


We will sleep after.


We will wake


Clutching


Gourd of sour wine.