Those who have a standard way of going

The Grave of the Great Alley of Clarity Cats is an anthology of poetry written by Mike Giardina, originally prepared as a thesis in creative writing, at the University of California, Davis. Please enjoy these experiments in abstract, postmodern poetry.
 

Those who have found a standard way of going

You are a hapy valley fever–
you–a free flow anyhow,
an interchangeable part
in the game of release
or anything that smells that way.

Things are faulted in your midst,
are terminated in the
chemical castration of critique,
of comedy, of the world out there
and even yesterday’s.

Yet, you should know
that I am not what he did.
I will not be killed by your husband
or any of his mysterious city-fears.

 
This poem originally appeared in The Grave of the Great Alley of Clarity Cats, an anthology of poetry written by Mike Giardina. The complete the anthology is available below:

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