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    Monday, December 21st, 2009
    cheryllayne
    5:58a
    Would one reverse a course toward the place she was originally going or toward the place she'll be going instead?
    Sunday, December 20th, 2009
    cheryllayne
    10:54p
    I need to rein in my errors. Intentionality is where it's at.
    Sunday, December 13th, 2009
    cheryllayne
    10:55p
    aaaaagggggh
    I can't stop EATING.

    Today I had, in this order:
    Cereal
    Ice Cream
    Candy
    Ice Cream
    Chips
    Ice Cream
    Wontons
    Ice Cream
    Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
    cheryllayne
    4:44a
    im Küche
    to be sick, to be dark,
    the sickness and darkness need no summoning,

    somewhere on the expansive scales of justice
    lay the kafka of poets,
    were she a poet,
    dreaming up images of mutilation and bodily expurgation.

    but a heavy, ovarian kafka,
    tipping the scale
    with a million fat,
    unfit to be honored with hand and tongue removal.

    morbid martha,
    living alone,
    afraid to order pizza and be raped by the delivery guy.

    roll the bitty butterball into a deflating bath;
    we will all gather our most reliable kitchen knives
    and cut away her extra flesh pound by pound
    then force her to tie a frilly apron around her exposed innards
    and properly preserve her excess
    in mason jars, with suction.

    a perfect cake is a balance of structure and fat -
    the structure provided by eggs and the fat consisting of sugar and butter or lard -
    and kathy kafka makes the best blood cakes
    with honey and a cream cheese icing that never dries or cracks.
    her unworthy hands turn flour concoctions first into a coarse sand
    and then into a fine sand
    with their built-in ability to estimate ratios
    while hiding from bad memories
    behind the electric mixer.

    shameless cookie-eater
    with scorned wrists
    has dull knives
    and little vision,

    ever fantasizing about
    hand amputation.
    cheryllayne
    3:55a
    Always the next door.
    four four four four four four four four
    cavernous hall and holiest water,
    and the harp player

    pew for a park bench
    the sound of brick sliding across brick,
    discomfort of nail splinter,
    eyelash removal,
    the less light of winter.

    sharpest of harp strings
    slid between fingers
    pressed face
    a dust floor,
    the knelt knees
    the second taste of the same vodka,
    spinning stained glass
    hymnal headrest
    chunky wet hair
    the cross walk across you,
    with the acolyte, seriouser and seriouser.

    twinkle of liquid notes
    the confessor lifts your puke-smeared face
    explaining the brokenness of
    things other than hearts,

    you contrast your present condition
    with warming up and scraping the car on a bitter morning
    when gloves fail the fingers
    and the sputtering engine is suggestive of the car's eventual death.

    that's all the more cessation,
    cases of aftermarket Freud, those bottles clanging in
    sharper turns and stops.

    The drunk and cleansing?
    forgery!
    any laughable stab at passing
    a character off as an author
    flopped as miserably as The First Third,

    is that the priest's mother?
    waving from the choir loft,
    or old Ireland,
    or the Amtrak station,

    but love doesn't so much depart
    on seafaring vessels anymore,
    the vomit crusts,
    and you can always compare yourself to someone like Robert Pinsky
    should you become disappointed in yourself.

    in the aftermath of some uncountable amount of swigging
    (and amounts aren't counted)
    all the people from the neighborhood are
    lined up in the aisle
    and genuflect with hands on the
    stone floor before them
    until two by two the confessor cuts off their hands,
    throwing all the lopped partial carcasses
    into a giant vat under the feet of
    plastic Christ,
    for an axe soup.

    the hundred issuing spouts
    slide across a blood-slippery floor
    in the direction of the eucharist
    to receive the body
    into their mouths,
    a ceremony for which their tongues must be cut out,
    and you can see the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe
    emerging from the bloodbath
    that seeps into the pages of the hymnal
    that was under your head.

    you see a door to the west,
    and the pathway to the south is blocked.
    by the pew there is a lantern.
    the confessor seems to have a note in his pocket.
    you are carrying a canteen, a rope, and a rune.
    the next level of the labyrinth is not visible from where you sit.

    the red-running soccer moms,
    eyes crinkled in appreciation,
    watch the priest snap photos
    of their nude little girls.
    this is a priest who solves tricky math problems in his dreams.

    faces in the axe soup, sipping
    the septuagesima feast,
    souls released.
    you cleanse yourself at their unperturbed feet,
    crust for crust.
    you wonder at your chances of eventually being sainted,
    using your hands to wring the blood and chunks from your hair
    and volunteering yourself to be the official stirrer of the
    boiling vat of hands.
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