when i should be tucking

my youngest into her jammies

with a goodnight lullaby

i am out on the yard

without shoes

only with a pen

in a bathing suit.

once i wrote an

entire notebook on myself

which took nearly a week

to wash off.

[the words that refused to wash off,

i sent in

for publication.]

2004-07-22, 8:37 p.m.
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