Wednesday, April 26, 2017

semi-finals at J.B.’s on old 41

the poet questions the consciousness
of dancing bees who refuse to sting the smoker.

a strike! he falls to his knees and keens, be-
lieving the dots in his visions and dreams connect.

from this pose, he ejects a piece of gristle guilty
of lodging overnight in his back teeth.

how does one ascribe language to a chile pequino
etched with the image of a trained monkey in the talons

of a bald eagle morphing into the shadow of a black
bird that shits his own bathwater? one must roll.

sponsored by the oiled scalp of a true American.

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