Human Time: Poem Eight, Self-Pity
Amanda Ackerman

1.
Okay, billy goat.

2.
Try again.

3.
Again, encore.

4.
You are standing at the bottom of a grassy hill looking up. The hill was not put there for your sake. You are slender and tall with cropped hair. You are not a mountain goat. How tragic. You have a pain in your heart because your heart is empty of someone to love. You can’t stop making faces at yourself when you’re dreaming.

5.
At the grocery store, you need to buy salt because you’ve run out of it.

6.
The petal of the rose is the flesh of the rose.

7.
Make it tragic and pleasurable. Again.

AMANDA ACKERMAN is co-publisher and co-editor of the press eohippus labs. She also writes collaboratively as part of the projects SAM OR SAMANTHA YAMS and U.N.F.O. (The Unauthorized Narrative Freedom Organization).  Her publications include three chapbooks: Sin is to Celebration (co-author, House Press), The Seasons Cemented (Hex Presse), and I Fell in Love with a Monster Truck (Insert Press Parrot #8). 

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