sam introduces himself to his readers
i’m sam
i have a woman with a green leg
and an ear cut off
i have a woman with a shaved head
and long goat-like tits
in the morning when she goes to the market
dogs pee on her leg
and roses bloom
i have a tender and lusty woman
she licks the chocolate from my fingers
and my fingers stiffen in an erection
i’m sam
i also have a hump
my mama gave it to me when she was a camel
as for anything else i have a happy-go-lucky nature
when it rains i feel like going to the movies
but my master puts me on the leash
i’m a wet puppy i bear it in silence
i make small yellow pretzels
and reflect on the good lord
minodora dreams of sam
mama told me:
minodora, stop thinking about sam
when you go to the market
think of bacon, think of cabbage
be a proper woman
what would have been, i asked her
if beethoven hadn’t always had a bird
singing in his head?
yeah but beethoven, mama said
picking up the dust rag
and starting to clean the genius’s ears
and that’s only because i must
write about you
the same way i must sneeze
or yawn
i dreamt of you last night
you had a baby with a cat’s head
he was cute as a button
you were screaming your head off
‘come see what a tumbling rock
has to go through to reach a beautiful stillness’
it’s a big deal
when you forget to cross yourself
before going to sleep
