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Eddie's poem "bad memories of poverty and wet dreams"
is contained in his second full-length collection of poetry, Carrying a
Knife in to the Gunfight. Carrying follows his 2006 release
Manifest Density. He has released both under his own company,
Full Contact Publishing. Eddie lives in
.
Eddie Kilowatt
in the museum
at the anatomical display
a little boy
told me
girls were much better at
remembering things
because they had
memory glands, but
their memories weren't as good
when they were little girls
because they didn't get their
memory glands until
they were about
twelve years old.
their memory glands had to wait
until they went through
poverty, he said.
boys go through poverty too,
but boys don't
get to grow better memories,
all boys ever get are
wet dreams and
those are when
you wake up in the middle of the night
and you think you wet the bed, but
you're wrong.