Do You Want To Dip The Rat
Do you want to dip the rat
Completely in oil
Do you want to dip the rat
Before we eat it eat it
Do you want to dip the rat
Completely in oil
Before we eat it
Tender tender meat
Like pork shoulder
A hundred traps set
Eighty hanging in a row to be broiled
With you
I’d take it raw
Tiny pink feet
Glistening with oil
Legs and feet
Glistening with oil
Matted fur and face
Weighted down with oil
Everything in oil
But the teeth are shiny clean
No what I really want to know
Before you open that mouth again
Should we completely dip the rat in oil
Before we eat it eat it
Should we completely
Dip the rat in oil
Before we eat it
The Nurse Said
The nurse said
To swallow
The brown pills first
Then the blue
Then she said to take the blue
And throw them on the floor
And stamp stamp
Stamp hard
She said
Outside the thunder is very rough
What is the sun if not an ending
You and the other people
When you split from the man in the poem
Baby
Nothing sadder than that
Nothing sadder than that
Had ever happened to me
I cried and cried
But it was silent
Like spring tears
Like some sort of spring green
Civil law
Is tender
It’s tender like the skin
Like the skin
Come too soon
Like the pink skin with blood
But my blood grew
But my blood
Grew in you
You were so green
Now you are so blue
The nurse said
Eat the yellow ones
I eat the sun
And my face is not afraid
Do you hear me
I am not afraid
I’ve fought this long
You will not
Break
Me
You sweet, sweet one
Sweet and tender
Like pork shoulder
Sweet
Sweet and gone
Lips pursed in a ribbon
