Monthly Archives: June 2010

Pillowcases

15th
Jun. × ’10
By Amy Simone Piller

You are chocolate with mint
after hours
alit on my pillow
magically decadent
gifted moments
saved for days
what would have been digested
savored
sanctified.
This is not a fancy hotel
beneath the bridge suspension cables
still crusted with snow
city still sleeping
unshaken by day’s start
you rest
I throw away the wrapper
the place we rest together.

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Pusillanimity

15th
Jun. × ’10
By Amy Simone Piller

The moment you awake
and allow yourself to believe
I should sleep five more minutes
nothing worthwhile will happen in these
The moment you decide to not
tell that stranger how beautiful her family is
on the subway how they embrace
child on hip prepared for the day
The moment you make fun of yourself
for an accolade deep down you think you deserve
but [...]

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Sock

15th
Jun. × ’10
By Amy Simone Piller

I am smelling your sock
come out of the drier
I know its smell
this state and not
the way you press your toes
to my breasts sometimes
still makes me uncomfortable
there is something not correct
about this
you scoff
tickle fart
this does not belong in a poem
but we do.

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Problem Poem

15th
Jun. × ’10
By Amy Simone Piller

PROBLEM POEM (Revise You Start to Get Mad)
To change you I would need to become you
to become you would be impossible
to change you therefore is out of the cards
Why did I want to change you from the first?
I am the only way I know how to succeed
change does not happen systematically
Beyond me there lies only [...]

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