Pax Tropicana

for Kenny Goldsmith



One could simply "break it
down" she said. The
      thumb-print on my nose
is not a product
of my work in newspapers.

      Therapy groin of
the misaligned they've
summered in the Hamptons,
      slept on the sides of
mountains, chained
by their own attentions
                                                         to the necks of the
crags thespians!
                                              Narrow-
      minded?   
                              (That's
when your Argentinean
cohort implied I was
      merely pretending.)
                                                       the level
dropped down a bit, ice...
cone.
               Freakishness
of the proms. Blankets of
      warm air over the
                                                 barbecue
area    the organi [...a "z"...] ers chirped,
      It's a satisfying venue.

      Imagination pulses
in the avenues. Redux.
Stormin' Norman on
      a Christmas card. General
Perot is an ex-lax.
                                           They've
cannibali [...a "z"...] ed somewhat since
      then.

Or orientalist
paradigms are worth their
      weight in sulk.   
As in, brrrrrrrrrrrrr.



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And oh! your clues. Your
sexy nexus.   Clause
claws,
      street-sweepers sing
one-by-one and
                                        together on the
avenue. It's plainly
      autumn and Shelley.
Whirl!

                  A mind set
within a cranium deposits
its dirty bank notes
solipsistic script
anthologi [...a "z"...] able
                                           denouements they grow
exhausted maintaining
the catalogue of
                                        several devolved
pantomimes. (Of
several devolved pennants.)   The
      dancing
of children
                               blue
building faces ricocheting
the light from
twilit
             sky first marketed
electric cars [...a "z"...] oom
past lichened feet
      of God [...a "z"...] illa,
                                     and speech
disembodied lips
flapping in the gasses
      and fog of our destroyed
modern city
                               trans-
national communication
                                                            suppurates.



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Lush
perjury
      barks its sole
salad commission. End
dry. Parallax.
                                 Pulse
rocks.
      Rigid defamation's
honor ragout limp
                                           edifice.
      Impediments.
Lathered runts. Recon
shaved
      pates.

Mexico oh license
starves regular guys
stirruped hones! Rip out of
throat chrysalis canary.
                                                          And country
      peat beats
ovular rookery.
                                       Ipanema.
Aberration.
      Amps chatter
it up "strongly," deciding
chores.



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Smoke's a line
      of a rendering
aphrodisiac.   Small
streets shimmer, they
say
      providentially
as myths whiff
                                    again, out.

      Ordinary dancing,
plain hand
holding,
                     spat on the
pavement and
wished it dry.
      Arms making arches
that circumbscribe
tribally
                  topics of repression,

      the galled gawk wavers
between sleep and
engagement,
      nonplussed //

drained.
      Grainy image
leaves no target
on the macula
      but peripherally
determines
                            (parenthetically)
the league of
      ills that take

precedence over activity
in the pencilled
                                     quadrants,
logos-meaning
being loop drills
in endless redundance.

      Boy, utters
the green wind:
take, again, this
      hand and stop
ricochetting stupidly.

      Remain intact
like the little fax
slipped in
the pillowslip
      born in or by
stentorian fissioning,
                                                    that that mark
on the skyline is
      foreign, diacritic //

      othering.   A
manufactured ball
bounces blandly
      counter-gravitational
with few needs.



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In contractual
sentences,
                         splatter
      gas and
centuries, "got my
      Kiss records
out,"

      banjo plastique, and
diamond
                        proses
leveling the
RAM past, gum-
                                       gutted
      and dove-
breathed,

prancing
through parks, meadows of
      ecriture,
                            lust lost last in
hillibilly
      mugs and
comforts,

                           Fugs'
tomes
radially dimming
      harlequins
that only greet.



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Unless the nut?
      Your clannish, collective
demonstrations of
      skyways, directives (opium
tethered drama)
       the storks, the geese
                                                               derive Q patterns.



Archly,
      Archie,
Veronica,
       flabbergasted maypole

(Japanese men and women in business outfits performing calisthenics)

      ants with violins
(O'Hara), and
      Tom Cruise
                                  aching after
Raymond
      ("Rain Man"),
                                           unless they consider
the Leisure Times plasticine,
      Gormenghastic com-
plexities
                     diverting, shunning, inviting, out
of the screened front
      porch.
                        Brooklyn Bridge.



                        The stride of
pink Stradivarius,
      punky hairdos
making fans of us
      
       developers (passive), consumers (active), thinking (thrumming) this

thought:
      ably
is no
      one,
                  nobody (Nobodaddy).



Parkinson's by the BQE, White
      Castles ("murder burgers") demisentientally
waxing prolific, in utopian
      solutions of the radical "volume" question,

quest, solution, quest, solution
       standard dyslexic Western paradigm, bothers

me. Ably
      amorphous.