{"id":28812,"date":"2010-09-16T19:40:10","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T19:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/?p=28812"},"modified":"2010-09-16T19:43:38","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T19:43:38","slug":"five-poems-steven-dube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/five-poems-steven-dube\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Steven Dube.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The City Of Lesbians And Mothers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Winter is gone<br \/>\nPedro has been OK&#8217;d to throw<br \/>\nThe runners start to run<br \/>\nIn the city of mothers<br \/>\nIn the city of lesbians<\/p>\n<p>The French Girl sells custard<br \/>\nThe boy holds his liver<br \/>\nA shy girl is unseasonably hot<br \/>\nIn the city of mothers<br \/>\nIn the city of lesbians<\/p>\n<p>Humbert Humbert reads Lolita in the park<br \/>\nEveryone is open to everything<br \/>\nYoung girls turn around in their iPods<br \/>\nMario in the shadows lands a power up<\/p>\n<p>The celebrities come and go as they like<br \/>\nIn the city of breast feeding and dykes<\/p>\n<p>Shakespeare&#8217;s in the alley wasting time<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s as close as he comes to immortality<br \/>\nWasting his and wasting mine<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a long line at the ATM<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a shortage on cookies and plums<\/p>\n<p>In the city of mothers<br \/>\nIn the city of lesbians<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s impossible not to stare<\/p>\n<p>The light is pale<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s half a pig for sale<br \/>\nIn the city of lesbians and mothers<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brown Bunny<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Riding round the track<br \/>\nRiding round the track<br \/>\nRiding round the track<br \/>\nRiding round the track<br \/>\nRiding round the track<\/p>\n<p>Getting gas<br \/>\nStopping at the store<br \/>\nBored clerk<br \/>\nDo you want to go to California<\/p>\n<p>Please<br \/>\nPlease<br \/>\nPlease<br \/>\nNote<br \/>\nAunt Anita, Uncle Albert, I&#8217;m going to California<br \/>\nKiss<br \/>\nDrive to your house<br \/>\nRide away<\/p>\n<p>Driving down the highway<br \/>\nDriving down the highway<br \/>\nDriving down the highway<br \/>\nDriving down the highway<br \/>\nDriving down the highway<\/p>\n<p>Stop at your mom&#8217;s<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s your dad<br \/>\nI&#8217;m living in L.A. with Daisy<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s her brown bunny<br \/>\nStop at the rest stop<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a wounded woman<br \/>\nBuy a Coke<br \/>\nKiss<br \/>\nDrive away<br \/>\nStop at the rabbit store<br \/>\nHow long do they live<br \/>\nDrive away<br \/>\nStop at the salt lake<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s like the raceway<\/p>\n<p>Riding on the raceway<br \/>\nRiding on the raceway<\/p>\n<p>Driving down the highway<br \/>\nDriving down the highway<br \/>\nDriving down the highway<br \/>\nDriving down the highway<br \/>\nDriving in the city<br \/>\nGetting bike tuned<\/p>\n<p>Do you want a date<br \/>\nDo you want a date<br \/>\nDo you want a date<br \/>\nReturn to the third one<br \/>\nI want to buy you lunch<br \/>\nI need to make money<br \/>\nBuy you lunch<br \/>\nGive you my money<br \/>\nDrive away<\/p>\n<p>Driving to Daisy&#8217;s house<br \/>\nOur house<br \/>\nNo one&#8217;s home<br \/>\nOur house<br \/>\nNo one&#8217;s house<br \/>\nLeave note<br \/>\nGo to hotel<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s Daisy<br \/>\nDaisy in the bathroom<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s Daisy<br \/>\nDaisy in the bathroom<br \/>\nTake off your shirt<br \/>\nOoh<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s head<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re a whore<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re an addict<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re not dead<br \/>\nI let them rape you<br \/>\nOur baby died<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re an addict<br \/>\nYou are dead<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Elliott Smith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t mind stealing from Elliott Smith<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t think I won&#8217;t kiss your motherfucking lips<br \/>\nMuscles deflate and fly around the room<br \/>\nOpen containers of food in your mouth<br \/>\nRazor blades \u2013 thrown out<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t think I haven&#8217;t noticed that things are looking<br \/>\ndown for you<br \/>\nAll the backyard games you created as a kid<br \/>\nWon&#8217;t be proof enough that you exist<br \/>\nI&#8217;m feeling sick<\/p>\n<p>If I can&#8217;t be myself<br \/>\nThen I don&#8217;t want to talk<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t think we can&#8217;t be friends<br \/>\nPhilosophers apologize<br \/>\nThen do it again<br \/>\nThe latest news is scary<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t think I won&#8217;t lie to you in the end <\/p>\n<p>Use your tongue as a razor<br \/>\nAnd be my savior of clean<br \/>\nMurder is allowed<br \/>\nTo achieve things<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sad Poem<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My life is this<br \/>\nand this is not much<br \/>\njust a couple of jokes<br \/>\nand a 40<br \/>\nwalking<br \/>\nAstor Place<\/p>\n<p>I am so lonely<br \/>\nand so afraid<br \/>\nand this is not a joke<\/p>\n<p>This is not a joke<br \/>\nThis is not real<br \/>\nThis is just something<br \/>\nthat I do<\/p>\n<p>So sing a song<br \/>\nSing along to one<br \/>\non the radio<br \/>\nA sad one<br \/>\nOne about this<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Minor Ailment<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The trees are having sex \/ I need to breathe, I&#8217;d wish they&#8217;d take a rest \/ Sorry, if I ignored your text \/ I&#8217;m under multiple weathers \/ I&#8217;d like nothing more than to get together \/ Have some fun \/ Eat something delicious like xanthan gum \/ But I don&#8217;t feel well enough for that \/ This is the minor ailment rap \/ Major ailments can kill you \/ But minor ones are still bad \/ In other words, I am really sick \/ I am really with \/ The worst of me \/ That comes not infrequently \/ And then deletes the history \/ I don&#8217;t know what to do with my time \/ I go on Amazon.com for a book to buy \/ The book is called Vaginas \/ I click to look inside \/ In other words I&#8217;m sad, sir \/ Though, maybe minor ailments are the answer \/ Cf. the NY Post \u201cAchoo Away Cancer&#8221; \/ Which suggests sneezing can ward off death \/ Or at least one of its ways \/ One of its best<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/steven_dube.jpg\" alt=\"steven_dube\" width=\"599\" height=\"399\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28827\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/steven_dube.jpg 599w, https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/steven_dube-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>ABOUT THE AUTHOR<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Steven Dube<\/strong> is a teacher and writer who lives in Queens. He blogs about music at <a href=\"http:\/\/stevenonmusic.blogspot.com\/\">stevenonmusic.blogspot.com<\/a>, where he often performs literary analysis of popular lyrics.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/steven_dube1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"steven_dube1\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-28828\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"right\" \/>Humbert Humbert reads Lolita in the park<br \/>\nEveryone is open to everything<br \/>\nYoung girls turn around in their iPods<br \/>\nMario in the shadows lands a power up<\/p>\n<p>The celebrities come and go as they like<br \/>\nIn the city of breast feeding and dykes<\/p>\n<p>Shakespeare&#8217;s in the alley wasting time<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s as close as he comes to immortality<br \/>\nWasting his and wasting mine<\/p>\n<p>By <strong>Steven Dube<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}