As/Is

5.21.2006

Help

Hello there. I'm Christine Hamm, a newbie. Thank you Andrew for asking me to join this wonderful group blog. My first venture is a bit rough, but here it is.

Help Wanted

We'd all kill for a little light.
Someone on the second floor stashed
their vitamin D in OUR refrigerator.
Who else sees the skull in the sky
above the hotdog cart on east 14th Street?

We crowd around the one office window,
quarrelling over who will lick it clean this time.
What I need is the Complete Idiot's guide
to the Eyes in the Back of My Head.
Do you think you can remember this for tomorrow?
The tension in the women's potty is as thick
as the cat-choking mist of hairspray.
You could cut it with a plastic fork
like all the old farewell cakes.

I lost the post-it telling me where I am.
As for the previous assistants, sometimes I visit
their graves, sometimes their graves visit me.
It's hard to see the screen with all these ghosts;
when's the exterminator coming?
It said bad file/corrupted, but I hadn't even
touched it yet. I wouldnt eat that,
if I were you.
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Comments, por favor?

What do you think about the line and stanza breaks?

posted by Christine E. Hamm, Poet Professor Painter on Sunday, May 21, 2006

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Hi, Christine. Nice to have you here. Some very welcome lines ("I lost the post-it telling me where I am").

# posted by  Sheila Murphy on 6:02 PM

 

hello christine...

welcome!

i like this poem quite a bit...lovely read...

i look forward to seeing more of you and everyone else around here...

--andrew

# posted by  Anonymous on 7:30 PM

 

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