poem about my mom finding my stash - lol

Discussion in 'The Artist's Corner' started by gripleg, Feb 25, 2010.

  1. Wrote this for my poetry class...under the influence. Hahaha.

    Please let me know what you think!




    Jar

    Widemouthed container. Glass which holds the jam
    together. Mayonnaise. Fruit. Canning. Canopic. Like
    the guilt you felt when your mother found your stash,
    your heart was in a vacuum. Sealed tight, screwed
    on the vice. Slow and steady. You are a shell
    without a tortoise. So seemingly unique and admired,
    your geometric patterns. A light, faded shade of green,
    important as a forgotten or cracked ornament. Rotten
    condiments. What to eat? What to eat? Desperate
    Pinocchio. Your lies are like the red of your whites,
    your tongue like the desert, and a blunted sword. Humbled
    as the withered old hands of your parents' mothers, tainted
    with a crippling guilt and the fumes of the good earth's grime,
    and never before so unfortunate as the mummy's hollow remains.

     

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