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Playing ping-pong on the Wii, it’s hard not to channel the McEnroe/Borg HBO documentary

Playing ping-pong on the Wii, it’s hard not to channel the McEnroe/Borg HBO documentary Lyrics

and when cooking with olive oil I feel this pretty strong
European-decadence feeling I’m not sure where I learned
it is a boring life, but each text from an ex feels like the Uprising

spiders spindle out the ancient past
lovers fall into a liquid dream

even in a dull life, bits cling to a better idea
my neck hurts and I wonder about the pain
it’s an Egyptian pain! I decide at once
pleased as if I just personalized a web-pet

in our hot, moldy hall we are prisoners
but my hair dries right and I am royalty

yesterday we were invited out
and became naturally young and worldly
laughing made us stretchy
when it thundered we felt cozy and provincial

today, inside like a bug and silent for hours
I feel like a genius with social problems
we put on Woody Allen and there is a new oldness to the room

my hair frizzes, and I think
oh, that’s so typical of me
but I don’t understand what I’m saying
I’m tired and there is an Old Testament quality to it
because sleep is religious
I’ve known this and forgotten
and remembering is female
there are the women of the past (brushing the hairs of a wild fire)
and the women of the future (coolly zapping a dlonze)
and these women are all represented as a graphic of lines
in the terrific logo on a shampoo bottle

but there are times this slow life has no thoughts
the associations shrivel
the towels look truly pathetic
my neck hurts
and in no interesting way

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Rachel B. Glaser is a writer/artist living in Western Massachusetts. She is the author of the story collection Pee on Water and the more recent poetry book MOODS. Buy it here!

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