Poem for Two Voices
︎︎︎ Coleman Dues
︎ JUNE 13, 2022
I am
doubleheaded
you be Gram and I’ll be Emmylou
always hearsing and rehearsing like
always I persuade you
I’ve been having strange dreams which compel me to sleep more
you have shoe tassels and modest castles
have pretentious unpretentions I am
a strange motherfucker except in the dark beer of remembering
well your flashlight fell down a bottomless well
the kind of beer I’d have a beer with
and well you mistook it for truth these scenes
are all floating on chains
you dislike sweet things and it makes you sooo interesting
the voodoo lily and the hands and the
hands but the blind floating hands
you compulsively imagine being bludgeoned by a stranger
the subinterval at my head
I snipped it away like a haircut the sound of thinking
is too loud there is
an alternate universe
where we are married
you be Gram and I’ll be Emmylou
always hearsing and rehearsing like
always I persuade you
I’ve been having strange dreams which compel me to sleep more
you have shoe tassels and modest castles
have pretentious unpretentions I am
a strange motherfucker except in the dark beer of remembering
well your flashlight fell down a bottomless well
the kind of beer I’d have a beer with
and well you mistook it for truth these scenes
are all floating on chains
you dislike sweet things and it makes you sooo interesting
the voodoo lily and the hands and the
hands but the blind floating hands
you compulsively imagine being bludgeoned by a stranger
the subinterval at my head
I snipped it away like a haircut the sound of thinking
is too loud there is
an alternate universe
where we are married