POEM
Seibles, Timothy S.
POEM Timothy S. Seiblex What You Really Want: To seem normal. To believe normal. To feel full of normalness. And not to worry secretly that someone might read your Tin-okay face like a...
...To spend living like a kind of forever...
...To walk among Americans...
...And pluck it off...
...Feel like throwing up...
...And applaud the year's new cars from Chevrolet...
...To believe that something holy...
...To see a church and not...
...Seibles is the author of three books of pot-try: "Body Moves" (Corona Press...
...thtrdy Cmrdy" (Cleveland State Cimrrsity Pnar\ Center Press, 1992), and "Kerosene'' (Ampersand Press, 1995...
...Pin the tail on the money...
...Instead of having...
...About not dying...
...To not mind being a member...
...But not realizing it...
...Each part of your face...
...And race...
...To not be dying of something...
...Handshake of all...
...We 're friends...
...A chum among chums...
...Without arms like nails...
...Yeah-heah-heah...
...PHWt...
...Is in there...
...Fearless—a puppy wagging up to everybody...
...And move among the brothers...
...Of a country utterly shaped by money hunger—a money chase a money party...
...Unnoticed and not noticing your unnoticedness...
...And point to the door...
...And not to worry secretly that someone might read your Tin-okay face like a toupee...
...Mmmmmmm...
...Questioning the other...
...And manliness...
...To feel a singular history propping you up...
...Just like one of the gang...
...We 're friends...
...Being insanely relaxed...
...Cool wit' the cool wit' the cool...
...Without eyes of steel...
...Not thinking...
...He is a member of the creative-writing faculty ai Old Dominion Cnnrrsity...
...To have your cup filled to the brim...
...With delicious normality...
...TimothyS...
...And not dying...
...The quest for the firmest...
...To tra-la-la through the wide rivers of whites...
Vol. 60 • October 1996 • No. 10
