s w i f t s  &  s l o w s: a quarterly of crisscrossings

Adverpoem
Nancy McGalliard & Clem

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adverpoem
(a poem that contains propaganda unknown to the author)

The shadow, the sunlight, a tunnel

   waterfall, rubber ball, feeling pissed

   off before being born

Tumbling, rumbling bumbling clown without

   facepaint

   never to be a saint, exaggerated rap

   god slip slip, dirt clod

In the womb, wondering had I written

   the same poem once or twice before

   without remembering, ostensibly no

Afraid to be laid, to rest, hairdo out

   to here, children on their own

   running over greatgrandmothers with

   their antibioparamagnetic mow lawners(sic)

Not to get lost on the way,

   the path.  Frozen like a photograph of

   ice melting