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Anodyne
Yusef Komunyakaa
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I love how it swells
into a temple where it is
held prisoner, where the god
of blame resides. I love
slopes & peaks, the secret
paths that make me selfish.
I love my crooked feet
shaped by vanity & work
shoes made to outlast
belief. The hardness
coupling milk it can't
fashion. I love the lips,
salt & honeycomb on the tongue.
The hair holding off rain
& snow. The white moons
on my fingernails. I love
how everything begs
blood into song & prayer
inside an egg. A ghost
hums through my bones
like Pan's midnight flute
shaping internal laws
beside a troubled river.
I love this body
made to weather the storm
in the brain, raised
out of the deep smell
of fish & water hyacinth,
out of rapture & the first
regret. I love my big hands.
I love it clear down to the soft
quick motor of each breath,
the liver's ten kinds of desire
& the kidney's lust for sugar.
This skin, this sac of dung
& joy, this spleen floating
like a compass needle inside
nighttime, always divining
West Africa's dusty horizon.
I love the birthmark
posed like a fighting cock
on my right shoulder blade.
I love this body, this
solo & ragtime jubilee
behind the left nipple,
because I know I was born
to wear out at least
one hundred angels.
Copyright
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I'd like to meet:
Trouble's biological father.
Music:
Tool, Etown Concrete, Lagwagon, Yellowcard, NOFX, Boredom, Millencolin, Dramarama (for one reason and one reason only), Helmet, Bad Religion, Slighty Stoopid, System of a Down, Chroma, the Shins, Modest Mouse, Ben Harper, Elliot Smith, Jack Johnson, The Used, Thrice, Nina Simone,Avail, My Chemical Romance, Alice in Chains, Coheed and Cambria, MoFro, MxPx, Flogging Molly, The Dan Band, Fugazi, Nine Inch Nails, AFI
Movies:
Where the Buffalo Roam, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Scent of a Woman, Romeo and Juliet (the new one), The Notebook, Friday Night Lights, Any Given Sunday, The Shining, It, The Big Kahuna, American Beauty, NBK, Old School, Clerks, Bad Santa, As Good as It Gets, Igby Goes Down, Donnie Darko, Requiem of a Dream, Jesus's Son, Wayne's World, Baseketball, Anchorman, WAITING (my life story, seriously, isnt' the bartender sexy?), Wedding Crashers, 40 Year Old Virgin), the list goes on and on in my head, more will be revealed when the brain bubbles surface...
Television:
Sportscenter, Laguna Beach (go ahead, laugh it up, but it's my guilty sin), Comedy Central Presents, Mind of Mancia, Family Guy, Everybody Loves Raymond, Daily Show, Chappelle's Show
Books:
The Season of Passage. Animal Farm. Hell's Angels. The Rum Diary. Drinking, Smoking, and Screwing: Great Writers on Good Times. Drinking: A Love Story. Original Bliss. Naked. The Crooked Mirror.
You Are 84% Evil
You're the most evil person you know.
The devil is even a little scared of you!
How Evil Are You?
Heroes:
Bill W. (crack a smile for those who get it)..
