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Age: 36
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008 

Even more than the one about that guy from Nantucket:

Hate Poem

Julie Sheehan

I hate you truly. Truly I do.
Everything about me hates everything about you.
The flick of my wrist hates you.
The way I hold my pencil hates you.
The sound made by my tiniest bones were they trapped
     in the jaws of a moray eel hates you.
Each corpuscle singing in its capillary hates you.

Look out! Fore! I hate you.

The blue-green jewel of sock lint I'm digging
     from under by third toenail, left foot, hates you.
The history of this keychain hates you.
My sigh in the background as you explain relational databases
     hates you.
The goldfish of my genius hates you.
My aorta hates you. Also my ancestors.

A closed window is both a closed window and an obvious
     symbol of how I hate you.

My voice curt as a hairshirt: hate.
My hesitation when you invite me for a drive: hate.
My pleasant "good morning": hate.
You know how when I'm sleepy I nuzzle my head
     under your arm? Hate.
The whites of my target-eyes articulate hate. My wit
     practices it.
My breasts relaxing in their holster from morning
     to night hate you.
Layers of hate, a parfait.
Hours after our latest row, brandishing the sharp glee of hate,
I dissect you cell by cell, so that I might hate each one
     individually and at leisure.
My lungs, duplicitous twins, expand with the utter validity
     of my hate, which can never have enough of you,
Breathlessly, like two idealists in a broken submarine.

 

from PLEIADES, vol. 24:2
Central Missouri State Press

Brian

 
It's like what Tiny Tim used to say: "And God hates us all, each and every one!"
 
Posted by Brian on Wednesday, April 16, 2008 - 3:15 PM
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Ella

 
um, i think this is my favorite poem, too! FANTASTIC.
 
Posted by Ella on Thursday, April 17, 2008 - 5:05 AM
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Ella

 
damnit, fred! haters don't want to hear that kind of crap!
 
Posted by Ella on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 2:33 AM
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