Noethe, Sheryl

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CutBank Volume 1 Issue 33 CutBank 33 Article 15 Spring 1990 Who Frankenstein Is to Me & Why I Have the Big Head Dream Sheryl Noethe Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/cutbank  Part of the Creative Writing Commons Let us know how access to this document benefits you. Recommended Citation Noethe, Sheryl (1990) "Who Frankenstein Is to Me & Why I Have the Big Head Dream," CutBank: Vol. 1 : Iss. 33 , Article 15. Available at: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/cutbank/vol1/iss33/15 This Poetry is brought to you for free and open access by ScholarWorks at University of Montana. It has been accepted for inclusion in CutBank by an authorized editor of ScholarWorks at University of Montana. For more information, please contact scholarworks@mso.umt.edu. Who FrankensteinI Have the Big HeaFrankenstein is coming up the stairs to get me Dripping mud arms held straight out Thumping His way up the stairs like the corpse he is And I run bed to bedThen I dream the room is too small for my head.I dream from a little bed. I rise from it like big bread First my hands, too big for the room, then my head Swells up. Fills the bed. Spills over. Tips the bed.I dreamt things were too big and too small for years.My head. His hands. See?This is who Frankenstein is to me It’s Uncle coming up to bedI remember that much. Then comes the dream of the big headThat gets too big to stay in the roomThe hands get too big to stay in my bed, SeeThis is who Frankenstein is to meI have heard his thunderous step for yearsJust when he gets into the bed with his criminal’s handsI have the dream that my head is too bigI remember it like somebody’d put Mickey Mouse gloves on a man Big cartoon hands, giant round thumbs, the wrong hands.Bug-out eyes. A toy in his pants, or a small pet.When they ran out of humans they used animal parts A rat’s heart, a lizard’s lips. Think of him as a dead man Using borrowed power tools.Sheryl Noe the37

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