PABLUM Sophia Kraemer-Dahlin

We´ve got some babies.

They´ve got an eensy weensy widdle:
an eensy,
weenzy fat lil teensy widdle.

And a mother, an all-forgiving,
gathering mother, who spunnum up from the lawn
and plunktum onto the counter.
She’s got a starstruck spouse.
Mine, bedridden since birth.

I have a bedridden spouse.
I feedum rice soup to die for.
How to be a good mother, a brave daughter,
an everflowing spouse,
has rather escaped us.
I cook at every possible occasion.

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My lover is so young, I have to pay her an allowance.
She wears too much pink.  Her hair is very fine.
She tongues raisins to dry against my skin.
How to be a good John?  "Did you wither those grapes
yourself, with your blistering mouth?"

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In my opinion it is pointless to be a victim
or a refugee and not collapse, gustily, into the arms of strangers and depend,
utterly, on the clemency of new neighbours.
For these reasons when I left everything I distanced myself
pennilessly.  –.The stupid thing about clemency is

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Did I leave it alone or did I take with me
my witsy,
my eensy beansy boinzi,
my fat woopsy
shnoopsy.  My wet waddler.

I ran away from house and spouse, kidnapping my toddler.

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Oh who´ll forgive us now!
None.  Even my mother believes in not
kidnapping a fat wopsy.

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It´s naptime in the parks
and truck stops of this country.