Annie Christain
The Consequences of Rocking Weebles on a Table after Placing String in a Fishbowl
The strings I fed to the goldfish
protruded half-way out
the fish's other end,unbeknownst to Grandma's box of fish food
I took without asking.Is Anat, mother of gods,
the most perverse
when she treats us like eagles?I rocked Weebles on the table
to make the strings dance
where what you almost say about us
feels like me.No one said,
but the contents of the box of fish food
proved fish do eat maggots.Should Mother Mary also answer to
Holographic Apparition Projection,
depending on how we say it?
The point was for the strings to dance alone,
but the fish had to be noticed
like when I tried to call the Weeble funny.After I opened the box,
Mom screamed and rushed to hose off the maggots,
where fish could have eaten me
by mistake.Why do we assume anything
about Isis' cow head?
When you opened the door for me,
I felt the thrill of string
offsetting my intestines,
completely different from when Mom told everyone
I named the Weeble with the blue overalls Benny.With Mom leaning over me in the bathtub,
my brother flushed the dead goldfish.How many different ways can we deny the bright rooster
in Buddha's mother's womb?The fish jumped out of the fishbowl
on a still day
when however you hear what I say
is what I mean.I cried for the plastic bag
when my brother won the goldfish.Do the tangled marionettes
cut in the wrong placeskeep going at it
for more than the sake of cosmogony?
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