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Progressive, The, Sept, 2000 by Martha Zweig
after Robert Burns
Harm not a hair on your head of the god that bit you. And as for that we'll see about that, fear no such threatful muttering under the weather, either. Put no one to shame. Speak to the frantic worms that deface your brother, calm them. This is a voice speaking. Your prettiest plan knows better in its bones & so resists carrying-out, like hefty trash. Reconsider me, please. Before long lengthens in passing past all understanding, take this opportunity: blue beard, red riding hood, green-and-yellow basket: spare me the gray area. Police? Me? But I'm the glitch from the stitch in time, proverbial sidekick, savior of nine for our mutual amusement, dabbler the wan arts flap to for crusts. Oil-of-warrior spreads on the troublesome buoyant breasts; attar throbs warmly at the pulse-points a woman imitates who briefly thought she'd sing one for you.
Martha Zweig is the author of "Vinegar Bone" (Wesleyan University, 1999). She is the recipient of a 1999 Writer's Award from the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation.
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