A Study of Wit + Gin + Stone (but the German Variety)
I think I will name my first child
cunt
and my second child
motherfucker
and my third child
piss
(and my dog
cock
and my cat
pussy)
so their teachers must say things
like what did Shakespeare mean
cunt
and who fought the Nazis
motherfucker
and what is your favourite color
piss
(and I must say come
cock
and stop scratching
pussy).
This isn’t an elegy to Ludwig
any more
than an autocorrected
fuck
rabbit tattoo on my wrist
or
an autobiography written for someone else by a
rose is
(actually so many of them).
It’s funny
how mad I got when you left
the lids
of jars unscrewed because now I notice how often I don’t say
I love you
any more, seven months after we broke
up,
how my tongue starts to rot when I don’t talk
to anyone
for four days straight, how now you call me
by my given name
and then I feel like we never even slept
in the same bed.
And now that I think about it, I will name my first
born
I love you because then when they meet someone new
the other
person will have to say: Nice to meet you,
I love you.