Villagers

#1

Gossip, slaughter
sheep and pigs,
worry about how much
money your neighbor
made last week,
selling flowers
to a woman,
who'll never equal
your mother.

You ring around
if your in laws don't fight
then everything is rosy.
You tell your wife
to go and make coffee -
there's more to life
than 32 teeth.

There's more to life
than 32 teeth.


# 2

Pomegranates and mulberry trees -
the same shit I said last week -
I don't give a fig
about apricot jam.

The Persians fuck our girls,
mainly in March.
Fuck the Persians.
Stone the girls.

When they're ripe
and the time is right,
if besmirched,
then their skin is good.
If they're clean,
they look sickly.
They are, our wives to be.