Robbins, Barbara

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AmaranthusVolume 1972 | Issue 1 Article 712-18-2013To LansingBarbara RobbinsGrand Valley State UniversityFollow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/amaranthusThis Article is brought to you for free and open access by ScholarWorks@GVSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Amaranthus by an authorizedadministrator of ScholarWorks@GVSU. For more information, please contact scholarworks@gvsu.edu.Recommended CitationRobbins, Barbara (1972) "To Lansing," Amaranthus: Vol. 1972: Iss. 1, Article 71.Available at: http://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/amaranthus/vol1972/iss1/711 A SONG FOR BARACUDA BERETTA black pain and silence your sweet cold smooth body in my hand so small I hold you sing for me baracuda beretta I've opened you and seen your cruel swift oiled parts I've slid and checked you in and out the sinister smoothness of your dark clever world from inside my mouth hurl my throat splattered sudden blur onto the wall and floor sweet darkness singing silence black make a picture tangle splash and darkness flowing dark red flow dark I wonder that so easily you'd kill for me. I only have once to ask of you. task, a sudden move effortless. 90 I BARBARA ROBBINS I'd slump down into the dark river clawing away all this light. Pushing it out forever with the ever widening harrows, dark and growing against this life. TO LANSING The sky's blue mane flashing overhead. Rushing bushy green trees speed and the rush the sucking rush. -91­

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