Kim Jensen

MATH LESSONS 2

indistinct chatter     a woman crosses the screen
       she could be a leaf      garbled and/or honeyed sound
no matter how she’s dressed     a projection
more or less          the only super-predator I ever knew was a white
    man    in this nation     there’s always a predator
in the next room over       so yes i was angry for a long time
for holding up       way more than half the sky
    my only request now        after all these years
is to stop being inaccurate with the math      i’ll donate my body to science
       but only if it’s right now      why wait until after I die
so they can figure out      that I have a body    it’s unhealthy
       to end on a bad note    things might shatter    or sound demented
coming from me     crawling on all fours in the picasso museum
          where there are at least eight versions of ‘weeping woman’
    and no one ever asked     why she was crying.

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