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Mother Says... My Therapist Says... Hal Sirowitz says his next book, prose, will be Hal Says. We wonder if it might be Minter Says, or, to parallelize the title, My Wife Says.
We congratulate the Happy Couple on their NuptiNuptials (2002), and happily offer Hal’s celebratory poem for your Literary Pleasure, dear Readers.
Bob Holman
WHY GOD CREATED EVE
In the Bible God created
a companion for Adam --
Eve -- to keep Adam from being
lonely, Father said. If it was
such a great idea how come
He didn’t create one for Himself?
That was what went through my mind
while your mother was yelling at me
for not putting the pickles back
into the refrigerator. But they were
already sour. Letting them stay
at room temperature could not have
made them taste worse. Later,
when she served the cake, & there
wasn’t enough for everyone & she
didn’t give herself any I was ready
to forgive her until she started
to eat mine. It made me think
God may have created Eve
for the same reason the TV
needed to be invented -- He
wanted to make sure He always
had something entertaining to watch.
©2002, Hal Sirowitz
Poet Laureate of Queens
For Minter Krotzer, who’s my Eve
Hal is indeed the official Poet Laureate of Queens, New York. For more of his work online, follow these links:
Grist Online Magazine.
“Crumbs” appeared in The United States of Poetry.
Hal’s answer to the question “What Is American About American Poetry?” is among the poets’ Q&A’s collected by the Poetry Society of America in 1999.
“Black Eye” is in the RealPoetik archives.
His brief essay My Stalker appeared in Free Williamsburg.
His first collection, Mother Said (Random House, Inc.), was published in 1996. My Therapist Said (also Random House), came out in 1998. Hal is currently with Soft Skull Press, who published his most recent book, Father Said in May 2004.
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