Macular Hole

By Catherine Wagner Catherine Wagner

Please god love me and buy me

Read this hillock and ride me

Wraith typing all day for money.

God bought me today for two silver fish in a can

God bought me tomorrow for bland in a pan

and a card an email from Rebecca

Bought four hours of my control alt delete shut down

Bought a new day-section with a headstand

My commerce in shall

Sky like a grandstand

Transact

God performed me today for a half minute

lucky

in locker room hiding my boobs from the kids

and my hair is silky and my mane shot silk gold

Bought a book on economy

Georgie Bataille

Called about plane tickets

Georgie Bataille

I bought my debt today

Georgie Bataille hooray

Debt off my God today

God off my debt in a macular hole

I dream of an end like a fount to this night

Run thinner and thinner and then it’s all light

Macerated in signal

by my go

I bought my ghost I walk my ghost

Catherine Wagner, “Macular hole” from Macular Hole, published by Fence Books. Copyright © 2004 by Catherine Wagner. Reprinted by permission of Catherine Wagner.

Source: Macular Hole (Fence Books, 2004)

Biography

Catherine Wagner’s collections of poems include Nervous Device (2012), My New Job (2009), Macular Hole (2004), Miss America (2001); and a dozen chapbooks, including Imitating (Leafe Press, 2004). She has performed widely in the U.S., England and Ireland; her poems and essays appear or are forthcoming in Abraham Lincoln, Lana Turner, New American Writing, 1913, How2, Cambridge Literary Review, Soft Targets, Action, Yes, and other . . .