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Cyndi Lauper

from Nothing New in the West by J. Mamana

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One night while cursing Japheth,
I noticed that I loved
my lover more than she did me,
then I fell out of bed.

We slept on Egyptian sheets
that burned and chafed the skin.
I couldn’t wrench them from our bed
’til we were sleeping again.

And when I knew that she would bail
I sang along with the nightingale.

I woke instead with a book
containing every word
excluded from the dictionary.
Hilarity ensued.

It read in six languages
and quoted me at length—
it talked in polysemous bleats,
e.g. angst was a shriek.

And when I wrote bad to its author
he mailed me a buck with a note that read:

“Well, Cyndi Lauper was wrong—
or at least misguided.
You’d rather write in my arms for the night.”

And today I ask as any other:
Who do you dignify?

No more than I said yesterday.

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from Nothing New in the West, released January 4, 2019

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