dave church

 

PSYCHIATRIC EVALUATION (answers to the questions)

I wanna live long enough to do the dishes tonight.
Everyone says I sound like I’m talking from the grave.
Selfishness the center of all human behavior.
We’re only as honest as we can afford to be.
If god is so great,
he or she would have given us eyes
in the back of the head –
or at least one in the back and one in the front.
My dream is to join the carnival
and marry a trapeze artist.
I know i have a filthy mouth.
Barbaric verbalization is poetry in action.
Men come in two sizes – flaccid and erect.
I am a raging penis!
I want to make love to heaven and hell.
I want to penetrate my original mother.
She owes me an explanation!
I cannot confirm or deny my existence
except to say –
there is no meaning in pain
other than the fact
it hurts!
I am here to perfect the art of failure.
It’s not my fault I wasn’t born perfect.
I sometimes think my eyes are pathogenic.
I’m addicted to visine.
If only I could cry.
I drink because I’m terrified.
I’m an eggshell!
You can’t eat me.
My temper has been tempered into tempertainment.
All i want for my birthday is a mop and a sinkstop.
I don’t need the keys to the gates of heaven.
I can always jump the fence,
or blow a hole in the door.
Patience something you have to wait for.
I don’t have time.
When in doubt

count your money…

 


dave church

dave church was born in 1947 and lives in Providence Rhode Island where he drives a cab. He has published eight chapbooks of poetry and Hack Job is his first book of prose.

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