Anne Sexton - 1974

[rowens]

'60s housewife, ex model,
so self-importantly modest
                     you sound,
Miss admittedly Scorpio,
whose self was a belonging 
like a Lady's Purse, 19-
60s, -- too intimate to 
                     consider
owned.

Ditch is a rhyme a New
                     England
girl grows clearly into.
Carpentering a casket for
                           lust
as though to enjoy would be
to delight a safely lit
elevator, shared with one or any
stockholder's wife
                     character.

Touch is a prison of cells,
like me.
And miss the point.
Mr. Natural fancied the soles
in his shoes more
                 than a soul-
fish hung -- but the tendencies 
of this human condition.

Et cetera is my Dream.
Freud called it hysteria;
I wanta die, today.
I didn't know you could be another.



        







I was going to piss on the flowers, then I
remembered flowers, like numbers, and was happy,
a little while

[rowens]

this is the best of billy

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This is, if he has one, his major poem.


He didn't like Bukowski, Plath or Sexton.


And then he did.


And this Sexton poem is what proves his skill.

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heslopian taught billy Bukowski and Sexton.

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Speakin of Some one runnin for Prez

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I bumped my own poem. But billy's poem got pumped in the process.


I'm looking for loopholes.

[busker]

The turns of phrase in the poem are wildly unexpected
Unanticipable

Achieves the effect. Nice poem

BUT

there’s always a BUT

It needs to make literal sense too. This one doesn’t.
Nothing beats that Ronny asshole poem

[rowens]

Me?
Anne?
billy?


I spent the last 6 hours with my neighbor.

My cousin's wife is a 23 year old teacher who had sex with her 17 year old student.


I said that I myself would like to have sex with cousin's wife.

My neighbor threatened to kill me for six hours.

Yet here I am.




Anne Sexton sings her verse

[busker]

Me?
Anne?
billy?


I spent the last 6 hours with my neighbor.

My cousin's wife is a 23 year old teacher who had sex with her 17 year old student.


I said that I myself would like to have sex with cousin's wife.

My neighbor threatened to kill me for six hours.

Yet here I am.




Anne Sexton sings her verse

If the neighbour your cousin?

[rowens]

No. He and me have this angry friendship. Every time we drink together, I push his buttons. Every time he comes up with a new topic that I'm not allowed to talk about. Interracial relationships, Adultery, and now Women having affairs with teenagers. I'm one of those people who think that a 17 year old boy is old enough to have an affair with an older women, yet find the reverse situation problematic. What's problematic about it is that if I say it's good, I'm a pervert, if I say it's wrong it's misogynist and a double standard. It didn't help that the radio kept playing songs like Don't Stand So Close to Me and Rocking the Cradle of Love, and that he is a very religious person and also condemns my ability to predict what song is coming on next.

As for my cousin's wife, she is one of those so-called Borderlline Personality types. Time for some Madonna and more Anne Sexton.