Skyhook
for Todd Colby


Today I lost my mucus plug
which is funny since I'm actually
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and didn't expect
to get pregnant in the first
place. Here are some

facts you should probably
know about me before yous start sending
my soon-to-be-born son X-mas

presents. My real name is
Geraldine Ferraro and, coin-
cidentally, Geraldine
is the very woman who got me
pregnant. She is also the world's

first face transplant and grew
up in the same house where Robert
Lowell's poem “Skunk Hour” takes place
at the end when he is watching
the skunk put his nose into a
dish of sour cream. Edgar Allen

Poe wrote an excellent
short story on a case of
mistaken identity steeped in Fichtean Idealism
in which the ego creates and projects itself

onto the basketball court
which mirrors the political arena
where Ms. Ferraro spent most of her
formative years. But it's Schelling's

concept of "identity" which ill-
ustrates the interaction of the
individual with its counterpart, the
man and machine, deus ex machina,
fathers and sons.