Speedway

By Cedar Sigo b. 1978 Cedar Sigo

for John Wieners

I cut out the “Heart with Snowflake”

Myself but it is not mine, Forget

This bloody coat bloody shirt, I

Think it is the writing that makes

Me sick, The scores and scores of

Incidental music, this nosebleed all

Spring all wet, I’m positively angry

with the Impertinence of it! I’m

Sewing up the kinks in this film, I’m

Trying to! I’m trying to burn a light

Between, There’s a light and I cable

my voice on it but it rips when I trace

Anything! WORKS ON PAPER, THE SHIP

OF DEATH “Oh build it!” Sings the

Heart, “My coat would be so bloodied

I could wiggle out of my coat!”

Cedar Sigo, "Speedway" from Stranger in Town, City Lights Spotlight No. 4. Copyright © 2010 by Cedar Sigo. Reprinted by permission of City Lights Books.

Source: Stranger in Town (City Lights Books, 2010)

Biography

San Francisco poet Cedar Sigo was born February 2, 1978. He was raised on The Suquamish reservation near Seattle Washington and home schooled from the eighth grade onward. In 1995 he was awarded a scholarship to study writing and poetics at The Naropa Institute in Boulder Colorado where he studied with Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, Lisa Jarnot, Alice Notley, and Joanne Kyger, among other poets. He has lived in San Francisco . . .

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