Friday, January 19, 2024

Ishmael Houston-Jones Workshop, January 2023

1. 

I DIDN'T REALIZE UNTIL NOW YOU WERE HERE
I THOUGHT YOU WERE GOING TO BE LATE
I DIDN'T THINK YOU WOULD BE HERE

FORTY WOMEN WISH FOR BEAUTIFUL FEET AND FEARLESSLY YOU WISH FOR A SKYSCRAPER

AT MOVEMENT RESEARCH IN NEW YORK WE WALK LIKE QUEENS
LATE FOR SCHOOL

2. 

You didn't think you would be on time
To this summer meditation retreat
At basketball practice from the Sam's Club
Next door neighbor thinks he's the best gardener
And COVID survivor––you––don't know ever

My mom was late to pick me up from school
I loved everything I saw of myself or whatever seemed out of reach like a perfect old woman body

In a European country I lost your virginity
At the meditation retreat in Vermont I found out how to get un-addicted

3. 

In our perfect world we live tree-wise and funnily nothing ever happens
In a perfect world nothing ever happens and we do it together
In this perfect world we get in fights
We break up and leave and fall in love like cosmopolitan idiots
In this perfect world the old man plays his favorite songs
In our perfect world no one likes to eat their favorite vegetables
We all love Bjork
We are all Bjork

4. 

The old man wants us all to be having more sex under trees in Vermont
In a perfect world there is all this.


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