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WHEN IN ROME
conceive the world
reverted
to proverbial Flood
board an airplane
low on fuel
grow flippers and
a parachute
May I take your order?
stakes rise in proportion
to the few
challenging the beast
of original consciousness
woken to indestructible
parables of warfare.
solution simple as
one less corpse
to feed
a Happy Meal.
rise in dread of steel walls
eye socket monocle
protein in a
pinch.
boots struck on wet concrete
forcing bitter roots
to burrow deeper
Attention cavalry:
instructions include
how to hold the
halter like an ice
cream cone.
BARBIE DOLL ROBOT WORLD
youth spent supplicated on stone blue mattress
granny smith luncheon, bologna cheese
lone sun beyond fluorescent ceiling
to arrive at point A, proof of existence
knowing nothing left as well as in store
decaf coffee
the short time defining our lot
to determine or undermine Potential
set bonfire beneath heaven
screaming siren of discordant unrest
and heave ho, walk the plank
the moon, albino chalk of unfinished meteors
just try to grow food there
and rain is squeezed from rock
THE FALL
brain pan cracked, bacteria swarming, stakeout exultant, hunched behind
wheel of hulking Detroit behemoth, cigarette ash tipped Styrofoam, furtive sip,
lengthy drag, hooded unblinking mendicant eyes, acrid smirk of disdain no
remedy for
plenty of time to shape the world out of time, radio tuned low, unsettling news,
staging affiliate for fighter pilots, breast pocket of the President’s, well-planted
baggie of pure white shit
magazine chamber of urban assault, file cabinet at the porno shop, passport
embedded with bent microchip, turbine jet, hydroelectric pew, albumen of the
golden egg, cigar-box explosives, backyard tree house, satellite nanotech
minutiae of quarks
feasting on flesh of chosen and chaste, sentient receptacles bereft of alien
departure, charcoal remains, a being so scarce, as to defy inchoate predilection,
torture cell embalmed in cinder block, junkyard chaos of inner-city sprawl
emergency birth in confine of rickshaw, earthquake race riot restless armies
tsunami, ordering yet another round for the house, eyeing the door of the bar,
ill at ease, scorpion nestled toe of jump boot, nervous glance cast over stone
shoulder
tailed by assassins, the stalker reversed, coyote tooth prairie and torched barrio,
chaparral obscuring whispered blind spot, blurred communiqué, cobbled alleyway,
palms meet henna, glint of steel sparking, spilt entrails composed on raptor’s wing
stalking the almighty fell off a cloud, from the mouth of a cave we watched for
a sign, from mountain peak for some fine lightning, not unlike certain days of
paradise, rain hitting the roof like jazz
NEO-CLASSICAL
read a poem by a poet
I once loved a poet
poem about sky and sun
woman hoisted upon thrones
testament to love the theme
a load of bawdy bliss before
cloud formulating overhead
threat to follow every move
daily duels of roses red
rather this dilapidated hotel
biding time this day-old
butter-pat cadged from bistro
hollow walls roach-scuttling
darkness harmonious surely in love
that time back when I my
self was a bug
IDIOT’S GUIDE TO SURREALISM
Massacre in the library,
not a bone overdue for months
strange notions as to universally inclement weather
Atomic-powered nightmares need not apply
sleep in reverse of the time-clock,
stop-watch set on Impervious
Ravaged, she desists spooning curlicue
In repose from sculpting of sangfroid
Rex tyrannosaurus angles in, through
clouds of balloons towards Ferris wheel
EASTERLY
on the lookout for an angle,
a long con defying
dependency on the stem of the rose.
thorn puncture leaks essence,
yonder wind empties hull of existence,
knife-glints of surprise
while the spooked beast
hits the fence running.
geographically terminated, on the lam and
bus ride reaching the end of the line.
sayonara capital.
conceive the world
reverted
to proverbial Flood
board an airplane
low on fuel
grow flippers and
a parachute
May I take your order?
stakes rise in proportion
to the few
challenging the beast
of original consciousness
woken to indestructible
parables of warfare.
solution simple as
one less corpse
to feed
a Happy Meal.
rise in dread of steel walls
eye socket monocle
protein in a
pinch.
boots struck on wet concrete
forcing bitter roots
to burrow deeper
Attention cavalry:
instructions include
how to hold the
halter like an ice
cream cone.
BARBIE DOLL ROBOT WORLD
youth spent supplicated on stone blue mattress
granny smith luncheon, bologna cheese
lone sun beyond fluorescent ceiling
to arrive at point A, proof of existence
knowing nothing left as well as in store
decaf coffee
the short time defining our lot
to determine or undermine Potential
set bonfire beneath heaven
screaming siren of discordant unrest
and heave ho, walk the plank
the moon, albino chalk of unfinished meteors
just try to grow food there
and rain is squeezed from rock
THE FALL
brain pan cracked, bacteria swarming, stakeout exultant, hunched behind
wheel of hulking Detroit behemoth, cigarette ash tipped Styrofoam, furtive sip,
lengthy drag, hooded unblinking mendicant eyes, acrid smirk of disdain no
remedy for
plenty of time to shape the world out of time, radio tuned low, unsettling news,
staging affiliate for fighter pilots, breast pocket of the President’s, well-planted
baggie of pure white shit
magazine chamber of urban assault, file cabinet at the porno shop, passport
embedded with bent microchip, turbine jet, hydroelectric pew, albumen of the
golden egg, cigar-box explosives, backyard tree house, satellite nanotech
minutiae of quarks
feasting on flesh of chosen and chaste, sentient receptacles bereft of alien
departure, charcoal remains, a being so scarce, as to defy inchoate predilection,
torture cell embalmed in cinder block, junkyard chaos of inner-city sprawl
emergency birth in confine of rickshaw, earthquake race riot restless armies
tsunami, ordering yet another round for the house, eyeing the door of the bar,
ill at ease, scorpion nestled toe of jump boot, nervous glance cast over stone
shoulder
tailed by assassins, the stalker reversed, coyote tooth prairie and torched barrio,
chaparral obscuring whispered blind spot, blurred communiqué, cobbled alleyway,
palms meet henna, glint of steel sparking, spilt entrails composed on raptor’s wing
stalking the almighty fell off a cloud, from the mouth of a cave we watched for
a sign, from mountain peak for some fine lightning, not unlike certain days of
paradise, rain hitting the roof like jazz
NEO-CLASSICAL
read a poem by a poet
I once loved a poet
poem about sky and sun
woman hoisted upon thrones
testament to love the theme
a load of bawdy bliss before
cloud formulating overhead
threat to follow every move
daily duels of roses red
rather this dilapidated hotel
biding time this day-old
butter-pat cadged from bistro
hollow walls roach-scuttling
darkness harmonious surely in love
that time back when I my
self was a bug
IDIOT’S GUIDE TO SURREALISM
Massacre in the library,
not a bone overdue for months
strange notions as to universally inclement weather
Atomic-powered nightmares need not apply
sleep in reverse of the time-clock,
stop-watch set on Impervious
Ravaged, she desists spooning curlicue
In repose from sculpting of sangfroid
Rex tyrannosaurus angles in, through
clouds of balloons towards Ferris wheel
EASTERLY
on the lookout for an angle,
a long con defying
dependency on the stem of the rose.
thorn puncture leaks essence,
yonder wind empties hull of existence,
knife-glints of surprise
while the spooked beast
hits the fence running.
geographically terminated, on the lam and
bus ride reaching the end of the line.
sayonara capital.