Of Property
all of my belongings in the box of my room
enumerated are books and pages the stench of evening body
the halo hair on my daughter’s sketch of us glass of flat diet pepsi
clips of words prescriptions photos checkbook and krazy glue
ipad home of my crosswords lamp and husband hooks briante
kloaka and herrera headphones input broadsides tibetan flags
bad to the bone legs suttree hyphenated affliction ruthie text
american girl catalog detritus of literary life the material kind
lines and strategies from said husband’s books bled into this
din of dr. seuss and smell of a swamp cooler stacks
called islands laundry in all its states my dysphoria krystal text
today I peeked into someone else’s life of real wood floors
of islands through their avatars we all fixate on a palace
decent soundsystems the laptop is my portal tunnel vision
scissors fancy pen someone else’s moleskine I’m lonely jade plant
ikea nightstand wallet from rosa notebook from lily necklace from yael
son’s miró-like drawing the son my double and my fresh joy
four pillows intermittent acquiring and liking strappy sandal in a zappo
box an ambien purchase that time somebody scuffed my face
I objected with a betty boop mask incense powerade zero
From Cruel Futures. Copyright © 2018 by Carmen Giménez Smith. Used with the permission of City Lights Books.