"what my dead mother would have said about the pandemic" by Lu Chekowsky by VOICEMAIL POEMS published on 2021-08-10T19:52:48Z fuck ‘em those assholes with their stupid dicks in charge of us all glad to kill us for a buck they don’t know shit about love and they’re ugly too so ugly that’s how they get so mean their mothers never loved them and the girls are too smart i feel bad for them almost baby men in gold rooms crying themselves to sleep so afraid they don’t know how to feel afraid they really thought it’d be all suits and handshakes and pussy george clooney or something i could’ve told them keeping people alive was hard work but joke’s on them and nobody asked me all that power gives them those sad boners we’re goners but i imagine i’d have a boner too if i were them a real pretty fat one with veins throbbing purple exploding out of my designer wool dress slacks could you even imagine it’d be so fantastic to do anything without caring about anyone else how free i’d be too with no fingerprints or heart it’s the bones they have to worry about now the piles of bones just piling can’t explain those away all these little boys with wet toilet paper stuck to their shoes we know what they don’t that ugliness isn’t good for business that’s why we’re always smearing lipstick on our teeth plucking endless chin hairs making jello molds for bad neighbors if i were being honest though i’d tell you the most surprising thing is that i never thought i’d live long enough to see this again rotting bodies stacked and counted everywhere the echo of anger and applause ————————————– Lu Chekowsky called us from Beacon, NY. voicemailpoems.org/submit/ facebook.com/voicemailpoems twitter.com/voicemailpoems instagram.com/voicemailpoems
