Sonnet
To perform for you, ask me why, shall I sleep?
You make love so beautifully I don’t know what to do
You come and put your university hand
You’ve thrown yourself off the roof by now
A white dog chases a man around the park
Your school hand your rich hand your suburban hand
Cares if I come I am a woman & we women must both
Have babies & there’s my mirror & there’s my baby
I want one intent on your form like a room
Prepare food and eat it if the race would survive
The crystal lay like a comparison with wealth to you
I checked and you don’t have your car keys
Can I believe her? So
Returned from the dead.
—Bernadette Mayer
Catullus #48
I’d kiss your eyes three hundred thousand times
If you would let me, Juventius, kiss them
All the time, your darling eyes, eyes of honey
And even if the formal field of kissing
Had more kisses than there’s corn in August’s fields
I still wouldn’t have had enough of you.
—translated by Bernadette Mayer
Say Goodbye to Legacy
you cant say
i think it’s just
the best thing
he gets in
i ever liked
the gap
this is where
i woke up happy
they wanna go
walking down the street
that kind of language
i found
not reasonable
as if everybody
gets in
so many fights
dolls like this
great burgers
the cocoon
girl shopping
to everyone
my lost sense
your boyfriend
takes care of
so many fights
they’re not very
now say goodbye
I must’ve dreamed
I saw a dead guy
you learn from your girlfriend
your lost sense
has had so many girlfriends
their own money
cuddly to legacy
that i was happy
in a crowd of people
like take off your clothes
before you
their own money
so many fights
better than nothing
get into bed.
–Bernadette Mayer
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