ANNE WALDMAN
COMMON LAW
Common law you are always on your waking by communal bedside's toes. Secular power keeps you on your secular toes unblessed by holy power a patriarch's hold. A woman & a woman keep the same sex faith. Others do. What's the power in common law on common ground you step upon on tiptoe. A man & a man do. Common faith. Conjugal rights for a woman & a woman will do. It is the tipped hallowed affair bold in day or was once a way to break away & went along in time became a bed a stage a blame a frame a claim a state of mind a crush some years some grounds for suit a random urge an undeniable passion never stopped went on was chimed in met the family became a family chimed in on family extended the metaphor family raised a religious family was raised beyond doubt beyond family couldn't get the sanction by day raised up a sleeve travelled through need came alive unraveled unrivaled that need came apart came to law was accepted by law downed then rounded out by law needed law need rights need common ground to fence in the communal things don't fence the trickster inside the common law inside the secular metaphor common ground in. We had it in common. But were never common. We were never random. We were in a genital conjugal situation seven years seven tides seven hurricanes seven wars seven reasons why seven simultaneities seven bold maids a milking on your guard. Common law is a right not rite. It is for every danger. Common law begs to differ. Common law sings for its supper. Common law is fine. Common law is not quite marriage. On your guard. Common law is fine.
OBEDIENCE & THE ROSE I do yes I do I promise to love & placate Mister/Mrs in times of trial and propitiate the gods of language if they exist & sometimes I would doubt this of marriage obey yes I do I promise to trust the stairs we daily climb to trust the floor we'll walk on putting heavier objects than ourselves upon & yes I do promise to be beautiful to be the arranger of the domus hold a mirror up to nature in all I arrange & to love and obey the walls the ceiling the bed the shelves & take care of Mister/Mrs in sickness the shock of & wearying & destabilization of & there will always be sickness & will not force any rooms any nouns to weep any things to weep I will be the epitome of domesticity in the arrangements & maintenance of material stuff & I will not weep I will walk I will walk with you & I will I will stumble with you about the things the nouns of the house. |