The Bookclub
Gretchen Seichrist- lyrics
Gretchen Seichrist – music From Music From Little Big Pink- Patches and Gretchen
Mothers arrive/ exchange greetings of relief
for their crafted free time
in a cozy cottage they settle by the picture window
and big foot walks by undetected
though he’s been bountied for as long as I remember
still with their middle-aged eyes on the hip
the women talk of parenting the organic way
and stylishly open the cover of Louise Erdrich’s
Love Medicine
Love Medicine
and somewhere Erlene’s laughing on the South Dakota Plain
getting gas money and a ride to Martin
with a spitting earache
and I’m a seahorse whose clothes won’t curl
when Sylvia Plath is pulled from the chair to be strapped down
or peeling the grapes of her lovers
but that’s another world
that’s another world
and the women of the bookclub
reminisce on their drinking days and gossip with just enough concern in their voices to disguise
their intent to slay
in this gorgeous process of elimination
the truly dirty from the ones who can choose to be that way
and across the highway
somebody’s giving her something she can feel
and doing it hard enough to knock her back
into the dream time of the
aboriginal world
the aboriginal world
and the bitches and the ho’s
clear the back country
without turning a single page
they know how to make a man tremble and shake the old fashioned way
make a man with their bare hands from red dirt clay
the car seats are properly adjusted when the women of the bookclub leave
forgetting or never having know
the drop-dead desire to be pinned down by
Muhammad Ali
the champion of the world
I did read a book once
and it said
the higher your education
the less sex you get……jack
