Here are two new poems:
What you don’t know won’t hurt you
What you don’t know won’t hurt you
I said as I cleaned my dirty glass
Then you will see what will happen
Said the old woman, shaking her head.
I said as I cleaned my dirty glass
It’s time to get my vision checked.
Said the old woman, shaking her head,
It’s only been five years, after all.
It’s time to get my vision checked
Watch the blurry doctor shake his head
It’s only been five years, after all.
Plenty of time for an eye to go blind.
Watch the other doctor shake her head,
The woman-trouble doctor with bad news:
Plenty of time for a tumor to grow wild
Beyond its house and spread out to the yard.
The woman-trouble doctor with bad news:
It’s only been ten years since your last test:
Beyond its house it’s spread out to the yard.
Then you will see what will happen.
It’s only been ten years since your last test
Said the woman-trouble doctor, shaking her head.
Five years blur and ten years blood ignored.
What you don’t know won’t hurt you.
A Sudden Fear gripped me
Big black wore a roman collar
loud haranguing voice gripped my plackey heart
griped about my mistakes
groped in my head for control, contrition,
grouped its army of righteousness around me…
My clotted heart murmers an incantation:
Fear far fair fewer fever
sudden sodden
Would that a bucket of water would melt you…
Would that saying your secret name
Like Rumpelstiltskin
would force you to flee
from my memory
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