lacy schutz
what's a sweetheart
       


To Which a Scoundrel Clings

   
    Fail
      and try again
  I couldn’t
    admit I’d been wrong
    Even when the floods came
      Signed Lacy Schutz Who
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        smog rubs its
      groin against the
        grimy window I
      brought the broken bowl I
        fail and try again Turn
      up your lovelight All
        my shames All all
      through the night
        Miraculously my jars
      of oil remain full
        The moon keeps
      no resentment I built
        my town on that
      barren plain We all
        came out covered
      in women’s blood This
        confession has been
      coerced from me I
        just can’t know others I
      called the milk
        thistle mistletoe I
      will bust up the
        mountains If I wake
      you keening in
        my sleep Turn up
      the radio I make
        my decisions
      between _____ and
        where I want
      to be I am
        always passing
      from light into
        darkness It is reported
      your city has been
        unusually cold
      and dark
        this season
       
       
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      previously published in 
Mid-American Review
v. xxvi, no. 2, Fall 2005
      © Lacy Schutz, 2004