Jane Joritz-Nakagawa

 

Memorandum

(i)
            slush fun/d. i'm in love with my illness. can i tell
you about it? please let me
tell you about it. wait! why
    are u covering your ears? i want
ear covers too! please over me. i
    want to be your cover girl. i covet her. i am
a covering for distant planets.

(ii)
i writed. i waited for u. u weren't there why
RU busy? UR always busy
    when i have a problem. i want to know! will you
be still. will you be still busy if my
            problems vanish? will you be you. who is
"you"? will u appear? what will u appear
as? am i part of yr appearance? is your appearance
important. i'm apparent now. more than
        mine? what is mine? be careful
of mine(s).

  lets do lunch. lets do debbie. debbie did dallas.

(iii)
the scene has discolored. i awaken. naked
   talent. the dead are often rescued. tired
   obituary. killing jamboree. ghost
apprentice. goodnight stuff.

i want to suck the giant
tit that is mount fuji. and a
mint julep.

giant pail of
regret. moist
men. secret black list.

i see sky everywhere.

kitty occult.

Never infect sound.
But artificial fork.
It's erasing already.

(iv)
just restless people roaming
   the earth. we aren't just. we are the earth. we aren't
just people. littered with people. people with litter. so so
very. the very one people so. little people.

(v) You think to yourself:
And next you:

(vi) How could we
be attracted to other people? I did
feel a little left out. He's really
feeling stuck in his
   job. They have a long
history of competitiveness. I've
been attracted to other
   women. What
an embarrassment.
Okay, but.

(vii)
What a creep of a brother. I
didn't pay attention to anything.
   That day. It was disgraceful.
average: 3.0

(viii)
in the goals of Americans. Movement
has teeth. tryout a shot. less
than the future

 

Copyright © 2008, Jane Joritz-Kakagawa.

Jane Joritz-Nakagawa lives in Japan. Her books are Skin Museum (2006), Aquiline (2007), and EXHIBIT C (2008). Poems have also appeared in New American Writing, Otoliths, Tinfish, and many other journals.