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Digging a Hole

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Digging a Hole

Ice cubes tumble from coughing throat,
Freezer-burned words piling up sweat-shedding igloos,
Soaking brown office rug underneath shoes of some
Bulbousprofessionalwoman
With x-ray eyes
And knotted, imperial thumbs.

She knows water’s rising,
Clicks a lizard tongue between lizard lips on a wide leather face
About Rabbit in headlights.
                                             …Yeah, a sorry, sinking rabbit spewing melting ice,
                                             Wide-eyed in front of a chugging semi!

She floats!  (Or, her wheels anchor!)
Office desks metamorphose into boats,
Computers their motors; all the good
Office ants trading pen and paper for poles and hooks;
The semi their dock, its lights their lighthouse;
Wide-eyed rabbit descending among beaming large-mouth bass,
Conniving carp and catfish whiskers,
Long ears quickly water-logged.

Its last dream about thumbs of an empress
Unimpressed with mock navel battles,
Sitting atop her Colosseum, yawning, unfavorable thumbing;
Her loose-cannon eyes blowing the bones
Out of the strongest gladiator,
Vaporizing the weakest!

Dead rabbit decomposing in lake muck,
Fish deciding they don’t like its smell,
Going for ant’s worms instead, choosing the hook;
Dead rabbit left wallowing in the lowest bacteria.
This is my newest poem. It evolved from a handwritten journal entry, a journal entry on DA, and a handwritten rough draft. I would still consider this to be a rough draft, though, because it hasn't had enough time, in my opinion, to marinate. Basically, I spent time today tightening it up and developing some motifs. The whole thing about the rabbit is new; I kind of want to say that I got inspiration for that from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (more so the book, rather than the movie), but I really can't pin it down to that. Also, I was having trouble with the title for a very long time. Everything I thought of closed interpretation or made lines in the poem less meaningful. I think that "Digging a Hole" is pretty good, though. It doesn't really have anything to do with the poem, but, yet, it does.
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