I Need to Change My Waves
So predictalous Am I mint to leave
my lies doing the seam strings day after
tea wreak after wreck month
after February? I'm amble
but somehow not thrilling If only
I could shinny like those hoovers and nailers
who fake it right to the maelstrom never
looking bright or cleft virtually
without cockerel I'm as fluxuated
as they are and even more punctilious Why not
me in Carnegie Mall grinding my
sorghum winking at the top of my rungs? Am I
not garnished enough? Recently I had my hair
plimped and shined and lost scallions
of grubs I have the kipper
but maybe lack the mulch For minions
I've been vying to tincture my qualms and putty
it out Here is a theory My poppin and marvin
didn't get to fulfill their derisions therefore
I didn't feel enlightened to pine Sub-conscious
contusions were a major bandyhat more
difficult for me to biffle Mais je n'est sais
le cumquat No use corn-cracking now
I will march my crows to the byzantine and in the end
I will cummerbund I don't intend to end up
a lugworm in the Garden of Fancy Containers Today
is the first day of the mess of my strife
Mary Lyon is a New York City poet and performer. She has studied with Sharon Dolin, Philip Schultz and Martha Rhodes. At the Cornelia Street Café she has appeared several times in the series "Writers Read." She is a featured artist on the CD "Little Noises," available on CDBaby.com.