Deadly Ivy     |   home bowel   |   haiku   |   (shaving in extremis)   |   Sonnet(a complaint)   |   Topf&Söhne   |   Symphony#41   |   Sweetheart-   |   Plea for Mercy   |   6.7   |   6.8   |   5.30(W.C.W.)   |   Rationale of Verse   |   Short Poems   |   (spontaneoulsy written)   |   6.6 (Elizabeth) (shaving in extremis) I In the bathroom there s an accident; It s a cool kaishakunin white That lathers up the face. I m a calming daki-kubi That cuts without a trace — II you re tripping with the razor. When it rainsrains (go away) it pourspours pours III A merry Mary(quite contrary), A woman made of class, Well the doctors come onin And they drag her off to class. See the dancing girls? IV Falling down All fall down(as) The men in white jackets Come onin an drag The body off at dawn. V She saw hesaw see saw. Inverseconverse Obverseconverse Reverse of reverse Diverse and converse VI You stick your head into it, Breathe in the sweet aroma Of Sylvia Plath s last breath (Breathing counter-clockwise), VII Of reverse and perverse VIII Destruction(conjunction) Swinging from the birches Singing dirty dirges Sinking in the bathtub I’m drowning in the — IX Sally go round the roses till her pretty white feet bleed Wears her hair like it s mother lobster pulls her tail into her stomach And they wander faithfully towards a destination of unfulfilled X and masterless despair. Sally go down the corridor Stick a needle in her arm A razor to my throat XI (shave shave shave) slipsy slipsy slip unfulfilled bang bang gravel gavel buzbuzzbeelzebuzz (this as they fly above the sink)