Two Poems from 'Employment'
Gina Tron
i make prices
i blend into aisles
i am a bottle of stool softener
Something about the auto workers strike –
Something abt how & why I was a cunt…
Men are tyrants with their time; but women are tyrants with the eternal.
you might smell donkey and driver if the dung laced breeze blows up your nose as my body quivers with new found knowledge of time
i make prices
i blend into aisles
i am a bottle of stool softener
Wafts of ancient loam and wet wood. He had viewed it all with sickening fascination, the swiftness with which something so solid could be torn asunder, cored completely.
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