Jessie Janeshek

You Can Sing Any Two Songs Together
 
          if You Slow Them Down Long Enough



I like a fat turnaround                       visual piety
 
           an Indian blanket             sore nipples
 
but it makes me nervous                     to pinpoint the moment
 
                       your right to unite us expired.  


Someday I'll climb                    from this cave of cheese fries
 
           hand over my nether parts                   be more than sludge
 
a nice metal donkey                 a mint-green-haired zombie  


a girl in a dogsuit.          I'll check for wires
 
           while my sky's falling               see a baby rabbit
 
skinned in the backyard             my cunt burning blue
 
           like a cartoon eye                     the déjà vu of being  


the sick sailor cat dressed        in the blind attic
 
           fact or figurine.                 You'll want more minerals
 
an itch in your crotch             ceremony's fragility
 
           wearing a clown wig    a Cabbage Patch mask.  


You'll dance as I squat                      on El Camino Real
 
           roll Guadalupe       a fresh cigarette
 
the royal row row row            of the bland silver mine  


and I will smell catshit                       among the young cacti
 
                          and grandpa will still be alive
 
                                  and I'll keep asking why
 
                          are you still so obsessed with me?



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