Poems

[the chair]

there was only one chair for the couple
in the chair sat the ovulated wife
and sat the menstruated wife
the man in the chair sat erect there was
only this convention between the couple
that the chair would be the regulating ritual
of dirtiness kind of object of contamination
of the woman things in the man things
then they lay down in the only one bed for one
pregnancy never happened and the wife died sat
in the chair the husband married again but
the new wife brought another chair and
pregnancy never happened thought
the first husband
we didn’t use the same chair
the husband died in the first chair
and the second wife ended up with the house
with the only bed and she got rid of the first
chair
a fisherman bought the chair for three
thin sardines and sat in the chair
facing the world and exactly from the world knew himself
surrounded by the first aura 
a chair where the first
and the contamination
the fisherman was generating another chair
the third
a
daughter of that first convention