Sentinel
Poetry (Online) #36 – November 2005 Online Magazine Monthly…since
December 2002. ISSN 1479-425X
Ben Ladouceur
The Ballad of John and Yoko
(channeling art
goddess super-
star poet asia minor
as she looks
for her hand in the snow)
long hair, sandy black
my pinches of eyes side-by-side in the
years made of gold
and they’re over
as it turns out
I have not been able to show forgiveness
to the murderer
as if acception is something gained
or a change a girl like me is capable
of,
perhaps a skill grown like skin
shed
in a strawberry field
with a holy hymn
and one joint shared
between two
perfect lovers.
I will raise children like beets from the ground
produce a sound that’s a song
from a voice that is new
reborn under spotlit stigmas,
roots of trees looking down on me
tonight is a stolen honeymoon
I will be eaten alive
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