Marsden Hartley’s Flowers from a Lonely Child - for Mary of the Volcanoes (1935-1936)

Strawberry Shortcake

Beautiful girls, symbol of world

Hunger on berry street on a warm day spring came

low blown

for god created a hole

concerning a red cock to come out 

a fat girls dream

Balthazar serves us 

bananas and communion wafers 

in place of the pudding

so fuck that

we go to miami 

palm beach 

this Wednesday 

if i stand i am propositioning  

and the tree is hot on this yacht 

ok pop o pop pop pop pop p pop pop pop p 

last night i saw a pigeon pissing 

it did not stop

So I looked straight 

into the homelessmans eyes and sang

Why cant you be good for something ?

time to scrap e

shit you 

dumb bitch

of course i cry when you hold another baby

yet as your political advisor

folded up on lap 

knees kellyanne style

like the most powerful woman 

in america I whisper 

see babe i have good fortunes 

inside me and dont feel a thing 

when cracked out Confucius says 

if i were just a little skinnier

      if i were just a little taller

i could be a model

  if i were just a little skinnier

              if i were just alittle taller

i could be model

       if i were just a little skinnier

if i were just a little taller

  i could be mold

Hieu Nguyen is a poet and student on medical leave. His work is forthcoming in The End Magazine and has appeared in Spectra, The Drunken Canal, the American Anthropological Association and elsewhere.