I Wed a Toy Bride

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I Wed a Toy Bride

1 Evening

From the soft skin of the toy bride there arises now and then a milky

fragrance. It looks like she plans to have a baby before long. Snuffing out the

candle, I draw close to her ear and as if scolding her whisper,

"You smell, dear, just like a newborn babe..."

In the dark the toy bride gets angry and answers,

"Took a walk to the dairy farm and back."

Could it be the toy bride is back from memorizing all the many colors of

the daytime scenery? Burns in my chest like my little address book. Because

in this way I can only sniff nutrients in through the nose, I'm getting more

and more emaciated.

2 Evening

Whenever I give the toy bride a sewing needle the toy bride stabs wildly

at anything around. The calendar. A book of poems. The clock. Also the

place that is so worthwhile for my body my accumulated experience to

enter and sit around in.

This constitutes evidence of thorns growing in the toy bride's heart. That

is, like a rose...

Blood oozes from my thin armor. To treat the wound I eat a fresh

mandarin orange in the dark. Sporting nothing on her body but a ring,

opening the darkness like a curtain, the toy bride comes searching for me. I

am quickly found out. When the ring touches my skin I mistake it for a

sewing needle and recoil in pain.

The toy bride lights a candle and searches for the mandarin orange.

I pretend to not hurt and not know what's going on.

From Crow's-eye View:

POEM NO. I

13ChildrenRushdownaStreet.

(AdeadendalleyisSuitable.)

The1stChildsaysit's frightening.

The2ndChildsaysit's frightening.

The3rdChildsaysit's frightening.

The4thChildsaysit's frightening.

The5thChildsaysit's frightening.

The6thChildsaysit's frightening.

The7thChildsaysit's frightening.

The8thChildsaysit's frightening.

The9thChildsaysit's frightening.

The10thChildsaysit's frightening.

The11thChildsaysit's frightening.

The12thChildsaysit's frightening.

The13thChildsaysit's frightening.

13Childrenwerejustgatheredtogetherlikethataseitherfrightening

orfrightenedChildren.

(TheabsenceofanyotherConditionwashighlypreferable.)

IfAmongstthem1ChildisafrighteningChildit'sfine.

IfAmongstthem2ChildrenarefrighteningChildrenit'sfine.

IfAmongstthem2ChildrenarefrightenedChildrenit'sfine.

IfAmongstthem1ChildisafrightenedChildit'sfine.

(AthroughstreetisSuitable.)

Evenif13ChildrendonotRushdowntheStreetit'sfine.

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