A Spring Fairy/tale Con/Jur/d, 4/3/2026 Spring is still/with us the imported asparagus has dropped in price, a whole people are being crucified we worry about the price of crude/since we are no not innocent, said over Australian lamb shanks mmm/we say/do you taste the rich grass? the diesel? the ownership of stolen land? when we were growing up we had a raggedy ann doll read the depression era books/diddn yu? builds up a great hunger all those soda/milk FOUNTAINS cookie trails into the darkwoods/ the camel/THE CAMEL! (O GOD – they said – hansel and gretel warned the kidz, about the cannibals, blackforest families lost a relative may-hap, in the depth of winter body stored up the chimney with the hams and the winter was long/the hams were short the damned/damned/ mice ate/ate/ we were so afraid/dying grandpa/ O GOD / no help from animation adept some got a taste for it /manna/manna everywhere if you know where to look/ O is that how billionaires are made mamma? we lost the raggedy ann doll and mouse named PELITE by WILLOW TREE when the spring rains came, bursting OUT of the storm sewers flooding THE CREEK that’s a false memory our mom’s xx whispers THE WOODS had a great OAK beneath it, we buried a treasure, of FOUND THINGS of LOVED THINGS, when our younger brother dug them up, the birds were singing, the poison ivy wrapped/crept among the climbing vines the deer still visit the 'new' houses 40+ years old now, THE TREE is someone's hedge row, instead of the WAYBACK behind fallow fields, children still laugh others die to keep the lights on/to hide secrets the monsters nextdoor in BUMBLEFUCK, never listen/ y? the y got a tasteforit, diddnthey?
Much love,
Con/Jur/d, 4/3/2026
Much love,
Con/Jur/d, 4/3/2026