GEOFFREY G. O’BRIEN (5/10)
Geoffrey G
lobotomized me
—O’Brien is making the rounds—
it’s just like a C
or a jamboree
—the pizza, the pizza, the pounds—
His Pegassus grimaces
now leave the premises
—particle, particle, noun—
His medical nemesis
purges the phlegm in his
modern responses to sound
Oh, his modern responses to sound!
Oh wow he’s not fucking around!
On Friday and Monday
he tore up the runway
complete with tiara and gown!
On Friday and Wednesday
he phoned up his sensei,
a man of respect and renown!
On Thursday and Saturday
met with the Latter Day
Saints who had nowhere to be,—
though they knock on the door,
he has turned forty-four:
O-B-G-Y-N • G-G-O-B!
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I left it
on when I
left the house
for the pleasure
of coming back
ten hours later
to the greatness
of Teddy Wilson
"After You've Gone"
on the piano
in the corner
of the bedroom
as I enter
in the dark
from New and Selected Poems by David Lehman
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