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Apr 1 09: Poetry Corner
My friend Elise makes jewelry. And writes stuff. Each piece of jewelry gets an interesting name. This one is called “Nine Things About Oracles.” It inspired one poem, and then another, and suddenly there are well over eighty-one poems and counting. My contribution is kind of dopey, but I had fun, anyway.
Nine Things the Oracles Told Our Interviewers
This seat is not as comfortable as it looks.
At the end of the day,
We cannot feel our buttocks.
Once I lost the stone we call the Eagle’s Tear.
It was missing for three days.
I used a jellybean instead, and
Nobody noticed.
The gods tell me the future
Because they know it will change nothing.
It takes twenty-two days
To wear out a deck of cards,
Usually.
In spring, seventeen.
I have an answer for your dog.
Tell her I said
Yes.
I miss my nephew.
If you leave right now, you will meet —
Oh. Too late. Never mind.
This happens all the time.
Sometimes I have a dream of my very own:
I cast the bones.
They say,
YOU ARE NOT WEARING PANTS.
Once I told the fortune
Of a man’s socks
By mistake.
He never knew the difference.