Poetry Video Reading: LIFE AFTER BOB, by Roy Smith
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Voice Over by Val Cole
Life after Bob, by Roy Smith
I wish I had a bosom
I would not put my fishing lures there
Rather, money from a friend for dope or rent
folded like an origami chicken so it would poke and itch
not slide to my belly button
A stash for Belle Lettres, you know, notes from foreign
lovers signed in lipstick kisses
I would need cleavage like suspension bridges
holding things dry from places I’ve not yet been
I would name her, this place of nothing from nothing
more
Pilar, like Hemingway’s boat, a place of refuge
decorated in Christmas stockings, she would have
a temper, like seas trying to rid themselves of salt
and crustaceans
I would let Bob sleep here and cats purring like Bowie
when he was Ziggy stardust
This dress, Victorian, I find myself lanced in and its whalebone
corset cinched above and below hate and men
A bosom to be proud of on parade day
draped in rainbows coffins
We would drink coffee together on some tropical deck
Almost big enough for a kitten or a baby rabbit
to curl into
Something to always pet and pet and pet
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