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SHARON MESMER
When
I Hear The World “Fluxus” I Reach For My
Anti-Semitism
When I hear the word "fluxus" I reach for my anti-Semitism
When I hear the word “anti-Semitism” I
reach for my carnal buffalo blanket
When I hear the word “carnal buffalo
blanket” I reach for my debauching riverman's
pony, restless and
full of bad English
When I hear the word “debauching riverman’s pony” I reach for my heavy seductress
hissing the word Iraq
When I hear the word “heavy seductress
hissing the word Iraq” I reach for my tortured
Silliman screaming
"oh its just another dumbass adjusting her mechanical Tony Robbins
bear boob with lank
greasy hair”
When I hear the word “tortured Silliman”
I reach for Andy Dick
When I hear the word “Andy Dick” I reach
for Grandma’s asshole in fishnets
When I heard the word “Grandma’s asshole
in fishnet” I reach for my fecal tongs
When I hear the word “fecal tongs” I
reach for my hot nurse fucked by a horny alien
When I hear the word “hot nurse fucked by
a horny alien” I reach for Rachael Ray in
Huggies inside a
Crockpot
When I hear the word “Rachael Ray in Huggies inside a Crockpot” I reach for the most
recent issue of PMLA
When I hear the word “most recent issue
of PMLA” I reach for my first embalming
When I hear the word “first embalming” I
reach for binaries of presence/absence
not peculiar to my
personal reality, in other words the miraculous world we can perceive
through my vagina
When I hear the word “my vagina” I reach
for a reconstruction of Jesus with his index
finger poised over
the button of a discharged weapon
When I hear the word “Jesus with his
index finger poised over the button of a discharged
weapon” I reach for
the 7-fold division of reality made up of perverse dorks who thought
they were getting
away with something
When I hear the word “perverse dorks who
thought they were getting away with
something” I reach for
Stephen Cope's job letter as a template for my job letter
When I hear the word “job letter” I reach
for a dainty, long-haired, shawl-wearing woman
When I hear the word “dainty,
long-haired, shawl-wearing woman” I reach for my dog-
eared copy of “If I
Had An Anus”
When I hear the word “dog-eared copy of ‘If I Had An Anus’”
I reach for my terrorist
When I hear the word “terrorist” I reach
for my meme
When I hear the word “meme” I reach for
my terrorist
[Originally
published in NHS 2008, http://www.poetspath.com/napalm/nhs08/Sharon_Mesmer.htm.]