http://anti-poetry.com An online journal of poetry Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:16:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://anti-poetry.com/belzaa1/ http://anti-poetry.com/belzaa1/#comments Fri, 22 Feb 2008 05:51:29 +0000 Steve http://anti-poetry.com/belzaa1/ The thing I like best
about Alberto VO5
Extra Body Shampoo
is not that it contains
nutrients, nor even
that it contains shine-
enhancing nutrients,
but the graceful way
it contains them—
which is the same way
you carry bitter regret,
my love, invisibly,
allowing it to work
its way naturally
through my hair.

]]> http://anti-poetry.com/belzaa1/feed/ 0 http://anti-poetry.com/belzaa2/ http://anti-poetry.com/belzaa2/#comments Fri, 22 Feb 2008 05:51:23 +0000 Steve http://anti-poetry.com/belzaa2/ You can pick your friends,
we used to say, and
you can pick your nose,
but you can’t pick your friend’s
nose. We said it often and
understood what it meant:
man lives within constraints,
be they moral or natural;
our little lives were limited
by rules or laws, boundaries
we knew were there and
dared not cross. Nowadays,
my son tells me, you
can pick your friend’s nose,
you just can’t eat the booger.
So there are still constraints,
but things have changed,
and I’d say for the worse.
My father says in his day
you couldn’t even pick your
nose. For him things have
been changing for a long time.

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