{"id":1142,"date":"2011-06-30T03:38:54","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T03:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/?page_id=1142"},"modified":"2011-06-30T12:45:34","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T12:45:34","slug":"tim-donnelly-611","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/archives\/tim-donnelly-611\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Donnelly, 7\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Year It Rained All Year<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nI read <em>King Lear <\/em>to the<br \/>\nprofoundly disabled. It took<br \/>\na week. That&#8217;s how they<br \/>\nknew I was mad.<\/p>\n<p>Commercial radio featured<br \/>\nsad junkies and angry junkies.<br \/>\nSponsored by auto insurance<br \/>\nand the diamond business.<\/p>\n<p>The boy downstairs was 21.<br \/>\nHe asked me repeatedly not to<br \/>\nstare at him and sigh.<br \/>\nThough he liked me close by.<\/p>\n<p>My boss was a moulting spider.<br \/>\nI dated a speed freak who was perfect<br \/>\nin every other way.<br \/>\nThe hallway smelled of pee.<\/p>\n<p>The answer to any grievance was &#8220;El Nino&#8221;.<br \/>\nThe baby squalls and her tears<br \/>\nwash the air crystalline.<br \/>\nSight and smell are sharpened.<\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Rocken Little Pop Song<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>poem as fable,\u00a0 poem as dream<br \/>\npoem as aspirin\u00a0 poem as prayer<br \/>\npoem as heroin\u00a0 poem as window cleaner<br \/>\npoem as spell\u00a0\u00a0poem as pacifier<br \/>\npoem as seashells she sells by the seashore<br \/>\npoem as spunk spit &amp; scent glands<br \/>\npoem as lullaby\u00a0 poem as spare change<\/p>\n<p>poem as snapshot<br \/>\npostcard to earth<br \/>\npoem as toejam<br \/>\nyeah man<\/p>\n<p>poem as primary text<br \/>\npoem as a metaphor for watching TV<br \/>\npoem as a sound in the pipes when you&#8217;re home<br \/>\nalone at night<\/p>\n<p>poem as stone<br \/>\nlullaby dream prayer<br \/>\npoem as battle cry<br \/>\nremember what you forgot<br \/>\npoem as now<br \/>\nno now<br \/>\nno now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Year It Rained All Year I read King Lear to the profoundly disabled. 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