DAN BROWN
In the Chapel in
My
Head
Having gone
an especially rough round
on the phone with her,
I repaired to the chapel in my head .
Onto whose pew
I'd no sooner settled
than the Lord boiled up by the altar and boomed
"I gave you a tongue.
Abuse it
and I'll pluck it out."
"Hasten the day," I said.
EDWARD KLEINSCHMIDT
Transmigration of Souls
I have no trouble taking showers after seeing
Psycho
again . The soap still lathers, I rinse off,
I'm towel dried . It's the other fear I have , from
A movie I can't remember the name of, one I
Came in on in the middle of, and then the storm
Knocked out the power. But fear is far from what's
R eal. If I fear that there's no cure for time , then
The problem is solved. I can spend my time changing
Sheets at the Hotel Ashbery, or become a new pillow
In the linen closet, with a lace pillowcase older than
The heads that will rest upon it. Become the song in
The sing-along. Become a stick grapes can crawl
Upon. Become that brown thrush that came up to me yesterday
