« Je ne vous en veux pas » …

I’m not mad at you’, ‘je ne vous en veux pas’, sont les derniers mots de la femme de 37 ans Renée Nicole GOOD, vivante, au volant de son véhicule, avec son chien embarqué à l’arrière… le 7 janvier 2025, avant que de n’être atteinte mortellement, à bout portant  …

« i want back my rocking chairs,

solipsist sunsets,

& coastal jungle sounds that are tercets from cicadas and pentameter from the hairy legs of cockroaches.

i’ve donated bibles to thrift stores

(mashed them in plastic trash bags with an acidic himalayan salt lamp—

the post-baptism bibles, the ones plucked from street corners from the meaty hands of zealots, the dumbed-down, easy-to-read, parasitic kind):

remember more the slick rubber smell of high gloss biology textbook pictures; they burned the hairs inside my nostrils,

& salt & ink that rubbed off on my palms.

under clippings of the moon at two forty five AM I study&repeat

               ribosome

               endoplasmic—

               lactic acid

               stamen

at the IHOP on the corner of powers and stetson hills—

i repeated & scribbled until it picked its way & stagnated somewhere i can’t point to anymore, maybe my gut—

maybe there in-between my pancreas & large intestine is the piddly brook of my soul.

it’s the ruler by which i reduce all things now; hard-edged & splintering from knowledge that used to sit, a cloth against fevered forehead.

can i let them both be? this fickle faith and this college science that heckles from the back of the classroom

               now i can’t believe—

               that the bible and qur’an and bhagavad gita are sliding long hairs behind my ear like mom used to & exhaling from their mouths “make room for wonder”

all my understanding dribbles down the chin onto the chest & is summarized as:

life is merely

to ovum and sperm

and where those two meet

and how often and how well

and what dies there.« 

«Apprendre à disséquer des fœtus de porc», par Renee Nicole Good

P͟o͟u͟r͟ ͟a͟l͟l͟e͟r͟ ͟y͟ ͟v͟o͟i͟r͟ ͟p͟l͟u͟s͟ ͟l͟o͟i͟n͟ :

❆ “On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs” : 2020 Academy of American Poets Nicole Renée GOOD, Prize winner at Old Dominion University.

❆ La mort de Renée GOOD ICI .
Qui était Renée GOOD (vidéo 03mn05).
Ce que montrent les images de la mort de Renée Nicole GOOD (vidéo 01mn31).

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