allegedly charming

fall,

                a cruel sigh

your patience is rude

                                                                                leave

                                less toes

a                                                                                              love-cry, painted

                for your

                wintress

                                damsel

                                                collar

                                                                                                                                                                                    bones

                                                      pale

                                                                                                bone

                 white.

                                                                                                      she

                                                                                                              says

you are clearly

dying good

bye

self-seal I will seal myself in a cell

see all sell my soul to selves who

will sell me their soul for only the

cell is sealed by selves and self

and I sell what I see sail to see sail

to all sail into the

ether.

she

left

your

                                                    mug

 

                                              [the one with Abraham

                                              Lincoln’s profile,

 

            hairy chin poised]

 

                                                    Bashful Berrilicious

                                                                           branded

                                                                                        your

                                                         mirror moon cheek—  

                       

and not Coral Daydream.

 

  Her coloring

 

                         lacked.

 

your     words  are      

 

                                                bubble

                                                            wrap

 

 

                        full and

 

                                                                   swollen

                                    with

 pipe

          dreams

                                    of

                                     goatees

 and

                        2.5 spawn to wear

 

 your nose,

                                    checkered

                                                bone and                                            

                                                          lemon yellow

                                                 oven mitts.

(to

 serve your protein)

 

 

                                    But you were never

                                                                         pro-teen

 you were only

                         limp

 

ponder against me the prim

 

                                     in         primitive

 

 

eye ray die ate

irae diet

[I] ra deity

I raid—it

 

I          

                              

                          radiate  

 

biology.

 

we,

tempted not known

 

mossy    [who]    patience

brassy    [what]   pander

lousy      [when]  paint

clumsy   [where] pain

tipsy       [why]    pa

 

whiskey, cymbals would muster

symbols in the rust of our trailers

ruse, trail her 

whist whist whist 

 

Besotted, he bends

            To kiss my eyelids clean

 

Cerulean was his song

            Mine was violets in the spring

 

Arabesque, meander

            Recall the hamlet

 

Sounding in the rough,

            Jocund, my gambit

 

If only, the flag

            His pride it maims

             

 But Saint was deaf:

            Eucalyptus remains

 

 

 

 

 

I disperse.

my mumblings

are tremblings

that shiver

in fancy

that stretch

arms netting

arms magnets

Caution the

beverage you

are about to

consume is

very

hot. (it’s neat

how it’s all about

Me.

How they

make me a

fifteen-second god

while I stand

alone at

the counter

feeling special

as the cup

cautions

and I burn

my tongue

anyways.)

Isn’t that

what being

famous

is all

about?

what defines

the definition

those words

in each

that mean

things the

kind of

things

that are

ambiguous

and

uncertain

 

 

give me a

Certain Thing

and I will cry

as it will

rest, a snow

flake in the

palm of my

hand turning

my fingertips

first red

then blue

before the silence. 

There could be fire

engines in the dark

roaring with neons

empty breath from

painting the town

the fire in their eyes

can’t compare to ours

 

And there was never air

I beg you for yours

because your breath

bleeds with lemon and

cups of sugar

and cigarettes with

their tips still burning

 

We are burning

and stronger than

America on the Fourth

of July but you

pulled the alarm

and now we have

an emergency

 

OUR SIRENS WHISPER

BAWDY LIES

CHEST HANGING OUT

WON’T WE LIVE

WON’T WE DIE

SUICIDAL DECENCY

WE ARE NOT DECENT

                       

OUR CLOTHES ARE

ON FIRE AS

WE RUN THROUGH

THE HEAVEN MINDED

STREETS GUILTY WITH STARS

AND MIDNIGHT THAT

REFUSES MAGIC.