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On the Toilet |
in my hands National Geographic
decreeing that Neanderthal practiced cannibalism,
based on marks on femurs-
or perhaps, the article twists,
our ancestors enjoyed a few ribeyes
before pushing N.'s dregs
off Iberia.
in the corner, amaryllis
(says tape on pea-green pot)
leers like a gaggle
of embarrassed victrolas,
flirty fuchsia
not too sauced to blush
at spread knees and dropped denim,
my impudent nonchalance.
next page, Utah,
boastful of Mormon and petroglyph.
it turns out, the author bleeds,
that the white man
knows very little about what
he extinguished-
as i flush.
copyright 2009
Chris
Crittenden |
