Friday, 16 February 2024

Kind of Unkind Fat Controller

 

Kind of Unkind Fat Controller

 

One of those days when bass blames violin,

he’s eyeballing keys; she’s shaming drums,

snarls ‘hit A Minor now’ in wolf tones and sting,

then in through the door - it comes, it comes

and you’re looking the other at a belly rolling

converted but here’s a hijab’s slipped, strayed

hair from folds - she’s licking her lips, strolling

from out her blazing burning fires. They play

songs of if she did anything expedient today

lament lost principles canned and conveyed,

an abaya hides recent pounds piled on hips,

hocking up a hyena’s laugh in shades of sick,

gauze thrown barbecues to displace critics,

here’s rands for any inventive songs from it

in skimpy piles of seed. First get a lump sugar,

sugar, send out your surveys, capturing souls

from the shanty towns where they mistook her

for something sporting tactics in mouse clicks,

hey, Minnie? Fuck your Thursday coffee gratis

a price too great to pay, yet here we practice

on one of those days filled by tricky shifted

signatures hoofed in six eight. I know, I know

it comes only from graft, from fingers twisted,

from time spent learning quick rhythms flow,

for improper dancing in unsuitable clothes,

beneath a kind of unkind fat controller’s nose.


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