FOREIGN BODY
by Aimee Lynne-Hirschowitz
breathing hard
back and forth, back and forth, back and, an, a,
and, an, a..
forth
GO
to go
FORTH
go back
and FORE
to and fro
fore
IN
foreIN
FORE IN
?
FORE-IN-bod-y
…you
are a …
for
a-n-d sweetly,
ever so swee…t-l-y
….in
in
body…
? i open and close my eyes to try to get back to…sweeeet–ly
and you are so far away
in a foreign land
a foreign bed
with foreign linens
soiled by someone else
another girl
and you probably never knew
how i could have loved you…
so I stop touching myself
and think instead about how it came to be that
Americans hate you all so much
and then I think I understand
its because we all could really love you
and anything anyone could really, really love
here in America
is looked on with suspicion
i used to think it was the remnants of puritanism
but now I think I’ll never ever understand and don’t give a shit WHY
just know that anything i like here in the States seems “wrong” to my neighbors
I don’t CARE if he paid her
I don’t CARE if they’re gay
I don’t CARE if she fucked the president
or sucked him off when no one was looking so she could feel like she owned the world’s biggest secret
…i wish she’d gotten to keep it…
because now i’ve gotta listen to cowboy george
as he mispronounces the simple word “war”
enunciates it like his dry, angry lips will save my life
when really, they’re ruining it
and my lips
will never be wet
again
tonight
so i go to sleep
and dream of a beautiful
foreign body.
May 5th, 2008 at 11:07 am
“anything anyone could really, really love
here in America
is looked on with suspicion”
So profound. So lovely. :)
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