YARROW YES WOODS
from Death and
I.
what i came to do i said Unbidden to talk about a hand
on my knee
the man says You're too pretty
to cry on the bus
i drink a pint
then i open another
the thing about pints
No no no one looks good
in cardboard
he says
I'm hard as diamonds
Another writes me I'm just a good guy looking for a good woman
Let me fly you down [to N Carolina] to see how it feels?
i tell him i need first class and twelve grand a day
he says Let me
think about it
Nothing lasts he says forever
Aw baby even
diamonds erode in the ocean
bringing them to the surface
might split them upskirt? spilt them too but this woman is all water
no't really but if you
Round up The Strokes
sing WHAT SIDE ARE YOU ON [BOYS]
Trying to Get Home Safe easy [alleyway] picking
the table we brought home had bedbugs we all agreed to
Spre'd crushed up fossils
Diatoms aquatic cuties
with sharp bodies
WHO PRODUCE 20% OF THE OXYGEN ON EARTH [when living] You used to
Get it in your fishnets from a boombox on the far side
of the train
Next to me on his laptop a guy scrolls through nudes and semi-nudes
turns it so the guy next to him can see: Green Dress/Long Shirt
Scrolling
all i see is actions
i don't know what to do
with the rest
II.
Whose laundry is this !
-allday train ride
really an Hour's
You travel more than anyone
James says or Nina says
Say What? No one says that anymore
Except as a joke as a joke most conversations
becoming serious &deadly
the labels are working at the border
Some can't leave
Their Sex doesn't match The Records
Some can't stay on crowd-funding sites
the largest donation totals go to
military vets & missionaries
To patrol the line / the fence / chain-LINKED / water-sore
Death & i pull the covers over us for another night
Death beats the history from my face
when i ask Them to
measuring openings
strophe mouth water
& food & pepper spray for weeks for months i'm told to prep
for if for when they come for us
i've gotten so good at having a moment
now
i have days full of them
FORINSTANCE
i was to be trained yesterday
but my trainer left
After thirty minutes
so i trained myself
or pretended to
Look busy for nine hours
making espresso drinks and cleaning carabineers or carafes or
what the
fuck do they call them
the big plastic cubish box thigggns with lids
i opened the book of tasks
SURPRISE
you weren't in it Couldn't Check
You Off
from June 18
until the ice cube
won't fit past the lip i bleed
into the water the sound
try to Cover It Up
this
Whole BOdy or at least
like my neck [circle one: bruises or stubble] at work or grief
for father Death everywhere all the time
today though is harder because?
i left Them and i'm reading Bernadette Mayer
write about Ted Berrigan doing things
while he was alive, but so far only in a dream
Where i am
yarrow yes woods is a maid and copywriter in Chicago. They also front Harrowing. Her recents are available soon or now at Dream Pop, E•Ratio, The Wanderer, A) GLIMPSE) OF), SCAB, and DIAGRAM.