Michael Magee


An Epistle To Mr. Sullivan

I find some accents very difficult
to decipher. My girlfriend will usually want a "conversation"
while I'm trying to read Heidegger—then worships
the devil, calls downtown and has my utilities,
cable and telephone services disconnected. I'm sensitive
to her parent's loss, naturally, but come on,
I'm trying to read Heidegger here. Often, though,
they do have compelling and lively discussions whimpering
out to the shed, chastened and distraught.

I don't need constant noise and chatter going on
when I'm trying to read Heidegger! That's why I put
the cats and the goldfish and the roosters and Mother
a crystal flask of cold, cold water. It's okaymy mom
loves to play and will chase down anything
I throw for her. She licks my face when I'm trying
to read Heidegger. They do it sitting right here
beside of me in the living room while I'm trying to work.

I'm trying to read Heidegger! There is some jerk
getting catch by police! Och sen håller det på så
utan att Peter vet att det är honom! KAOZ!
NEVER AGAIN!!! NEVER AGAIN!! ARGH!. . . Annnnd
CUT!! We end with a cliffhanger, because of
Mel Gibson's father's well known
and wildly inaccurate views on the holocaust.



Dictator Boyfriend
                                                      For Sharon Mesmer

Football has taken over my boyfriend's life.
As such He is the Saddam of this college
who managed to slaughter his way to power.

All of my boyfriend/lovers had medium-to-large
white teeth (not that it matters because dictators
can pardon themselves) and want my brothers

to be shipped off to die, thank-you very much.
Moreover, he thinks it is just and right
that he is a dictator. At two in the morning

when my boyfriend came home I hadn't
even started writing yet. My boyfriend is a dictator
who gassed his own people. He has gas

after we have sex. Why is this ? For about
the last two and a half weeks, my boyfriend
has gas ALL the time. We've really had no diet

change but our stress levels are really high?
My boyfriend makes me put a potato in his crotch
and then screams "Look, I'm a dictator!"lame

jokes constantly (he loves puns and has a typical
5 year old's humor! but a lot of things he does
that are annoying are not intentionally so .He just

loves puns and telling stories and HATES politics.
I daren't tell the singer in our band that. He sings
like my Nazi dad and his scary friends. There must be

a pattern here: I'm fat, I'm neurotic, I'm overworked,
I'm obsessive-compulsive, I don't understand
technology, my boyfriend's a dictator. I don't know

what to do if I am pregnant because I'm against
abortion, but my boyfriend's a fascist dictator
and we just broke up, and I don't want him to have

audiences with humble Kurdish peasants, an entire nation
singing praises to  his "rape rooms", pulling out
the tongues of his opponents or to use his own people

as subjects for his syndicated sexual advice column,
"Savage Love." Sure, they're nifty weapons for a dictator
to have, and money could be made from this. But why

invite an American friend named Ron to the party?
Ron is about 57 years old. The question remains , where
does a girl draw the line between saying, "Gee , I

guess the honeymoon's over!" and "Gee , my boyfriend's
a fascist dictator!"? My boyfriend is from Texas
and when I asked him about the place he just said, "You

DO know why it's really cheap living there. . . Right?"
He tells me that it's a very dangerous place in some areas.
I don't doubt that for a minute, but if I'm carrying a gun

with a 17-round KRD mag and have a full spare on me
maybe I would win. Who is Mike Ovitz? And what is the history
of Drive-In Underwear? Perhaps the custom started there.
 
 
 

A David Trinidad Publication for MiPOesias Magazine 2007