If you were my mommy
I would have punched you in the face
before the age of eight
No parent should sound like that
while talking about someone
who came from their womb
Not to strangers
not to friends
not to cops
And not out loud
on goddamned speakerphone
at fucking Starbucks
Copyright © 2015 William S. Friday
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Published by Bill Friday
Beard wearer. Bicycle rider. Forklift enthusiast.
Audiobook narrator. Publisher.
A poet by necessity.
My next book arrives near the end of... well, that’s a great big I DON’T KNOW right now.
I've written two full-length books of poetry, A Death on Skunk Street and Between Love and Orgasms, both published by Hostile 17 Print, a division of Silver Star Laboratory.
I live near the Pacific Ocean in Long Beach, California.
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Damn, Bill. How many times have I thought this exact thing. Thank you for putting this into words so beautifully!
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Thanks, Anthony. Today was a day for writing things exactly as they are. Seems almost dishonest to call this one “poetry”.
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Maaaaan…if we learned anything from Bukowski, it’s that poetry is in the feel of it, not in the form. Sometimes saying it, even if it’s just a sentence, or an idea, or an incomplete thought, it’s poetry.
You’ve given me a beginning, a middle and an end. In that you’ve told me a story. And you’ve given me something that’s real, that I can latch onto, and that has grounding in both reality (what had happened was…) and in in fantasy (I would totally kick your ass); you give us poetry–raw, passionate and beautiful.
Where’re you published at? I want a a hard copy already. *poke poke poke*
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By the end of the year, it’ll be in your hands.
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Yaaaaaay!
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Wow. There are a lot of people who should not be parents. Sorry you had to witness such inhumanity. 😦
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Thanks, Dani. I think what I witnessed WAS humanity… just not the part we would wish to see. It’s just that the parts we would wish to see are so much quieter about how they go about life. Makes you want to look even closer to find it.
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