Dan Brooks
4/16/99
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Anthonys Poem"Lights up. Lights down.
Im having one of those rainy days where you can feel arms on the back of your neck.
What? Thats the first line of my poem. "Im having one of those rainy days where you can feel arms on the back of your neck." The fuck, what does it mean? You know, its like when its. . .raining. You know when its raining and you get all cold, and you wish you had something you could put like right here [gesture to shoulder/neck area]? Its. . .damp and shit.
Because if I said, "Im having one of those rainy days where its damp" it would sound gay. Oh, for Christs sakes, shut up about your cousin already. We all know your cousins gay. Fuck off, its the way I talk. Look, does it piss you off? When I say "damp" is gay or the Knicks are gay, does it hurt you personally? [Cutting him off] Nah does it hurt you? All right then. When your fucking cousin comes to visit Ill say the Knicks are lame. Jesus. You know, youre one hypocritical motherfucker. Yeah, thats what Im sayin. Uh-huh, just cause you ride me about sayin things are gay. You say "gypped". Just yesterday you were sayin how you got gypped out of overtime at work. Cause it comes from "gypsy," thats why. My great-grandpa was a fuckin gypsy. Yeah, its true. You think Im making it up? They put him in the fuckin camps and everything. My mothers grandpa. Fuckin gypsy, all the way.
Cause thats the way I wanna start my poem. All right? Well, it means somethin to me. Its like okay, say you gotta walk home in the rain. I dont know, its in the fuckin shop. No, shes gotta work. Look, just say you feel like walkin home in the rain, because you want to understand what I mean when my poem says, "Im having one of those rainy days where you can feel arms on the back of your neck." Shit. Okay, so you walk home in the rain and whats the first thing you wanna do when you get back to your apartment. You wanna go see Sheila, right? No shes home. I know I said she was at work I was just trying to get you to agree with me that you were walking home in the rain. So you get home and Sheilas there, and shes sitting on the couch, and the first thing you want to do is sit down next to her and take her arm and put it on the back of your neck, right where the rains been dripping off your hair and down into your collar the whole way home. Thats what that line in my poem means.
Or like this. Say youre at home, the radiators on, the windows are open just a crack, its been pouring down rain all fuckin day. Sheila walks in the door. Shes drenched, except for her hair cause shes been wearing a hat. But the bottom of her hair, the little bit right here at the nape of her neck thats wet, cause the hat didnt cover it. So she sits down next to you and you put your hand on the back of her neck, and you take your thumb and you run it back and forth in the wet part of her hair. Bang, right there, youre in love with her, right? Thats what Im fuckin talking about.
Look, maybe it doesnt make sense to you because you got that. Sheila comes home at night, its been raining, her hairs wet, you put your hand in it, youre in love you have a beer what the fucks it mean to you? But this is my poem, you know? And I dont got that. I aint got no Sheila to come home wet.
Yo, shut the fuck up. Im telling you about my fuckin poem and you gotta go be crude. Jesus Christ. You know what Im gonna call this when Im done? Anthonys Poem. Cause it dont mean nothin to you or probably anybody else who reads it, but it means something to me. Here, look. [Takes out Sharpie, writes "Anthonys Poem" on paper." Anthonys Poem. It doesnt say Bobby DeMolios Poem That He Can Criticize The Lines On and Shit, does it? No. Its Anthonys Poem, end of discussion.
Beat.
Its a good fuckin line, Bobby. What do you know, anyway?
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"Anthony's Poem" debuted April 16, 1999.