Pygmy Although I Am Not a Spy, Or the Nose

Pygmy Although I Am Not a Spy, Or The Nose

 

Pygmy, the inevitable spy, Bing “Pygmy.”

Now all in the window light like

Eugene Atget from France, Paris, Google-Bing “Eugene Atget Greatest Photographer Like

Larry Bird Ballplayer” (I be white, tee-hee).”

I am in to vitamins, oil pulling and amino acids.

Something eventually like my mad psychiatrist with her pills has

To cure me my errant fantasies about

27-year-old girls, probably pregnant and married, I don’t know.  My psychologist said thank God they are

Not 11, but still more drugs for

Your dilapidated brain organ with its plastic utensils deranged like King

Lear on the heath.  Bing “Shakespeare, Homosexuality, Heath.”

No one, no girls, except the Barbara Bush 59s and 62s

Will sit next to me at the relevant café hooch, although I

Am most relevant: I wear a hot-like-the-girls-here tweed hat from London England on this August day

In I-am-no-longer-prejudiced Birmingham, Alabam.  I conclude, like Socrates—Why doesn’t he

Have a first name?—that

This is because of the little blemish on my W. C. Fields

Nose.  God-damned 59, 27 in dilapidated brain, and happy, holy God,

Loving all powerful,

Puts a pimple most pathological

On my no-wonder-I-am-in-therapy,

Slightly-bent-to-the-left, tragic nose.

About Tim Ruane

Tim Ruane is an artist and writer. He is a graduate of Georgetown University, where he studied English and art, and has worked as a chief copy editor in the editorial department of The Washington Post, where he has also worked as a freelance photographer. He has written hundreds of poems, two novels a number of short stories. His photographs have been published by The Washington Post, Simon & Schuster and The Good Men Project. He has shown his photographs at Potomac MD Public Library and is scheduled to be published in ShareArt LA, Circumfleks Magazine and Splinter Literary Journal. He will have an exhibition of his photographs in September at the offices of Prudential FedRealty in Washington D.C. Mr. Ruane lives and works in Garrett Park MD, just outside Washington D.C. USA.

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