January 21, 2004

Skid (state of the union)

what they rearrange
in grease-stick pollack marks
litigious fervor
basso profundo
accent of lariats
instant professional commentary
integrates
the weave unbroken
my suburban chatelaine
safe in a constitutional reich
maturing unblemished
in a corner

we want instructions
to replace such
love
as lives are made of
four whims collapse into two
to list retrograde
juggernaut the contract
—the canny smoke like hairlips
pretty on demand
in the salsa of tableaux
receding in a history
curated with the same icy tools

to evoke
beards warrant identification
though metal be blind
salty demeanor
strays are enumerated
until the percentage towers
then lists
deemed a false eyelash
to demand such
love as exists in cubic form
when the code of hatred respires
on a piece a paper

Posted by Brian Stefans at January 21, 2004 09:52 AM | TrackBack
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