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I
doused my poems – the ones that squeak and rust –
with
a powderpuff of sky OK next line
please By the
time I was ten I dined on pellets
of
cosmos in the pouring rain If
you
don’t mind the expression: Move over
Rover
then
quite possibly this: words often appear before
consciousness
attired in a series of holes
That
is why the Academy of ____________ (yes
fill
in the blank) came over to my house
and
punched me in the nose (or count the missing periods)
As
in tools of grammar or rocks Ouch!
I
was on my way out with the outs (or in) to begin with
Centripetal
or Centrifugal – Connotative or Denotative
Guess
which hand I suppose I wanted a paragraph
of
further explanation – one that tied things up
with
a nice little bow Tidied is more likely
Things?
For the record, I love them Squirrels
in
the treetops
the passing eyes of a
stranger
The
goulash of objects in the prime of their
radiant colors
2
A
man walked down a street of lemon pastries
What
happened to my Nehru suit
the
guru of atomic clocks inquired of the genie
in
the bell jar of telecommunications or let’s ride
the
dark horse into a blaze of adjectives
My
lips soured unto yours as the saying goes
Quite
rightly extend the play the hobo of
myth-
making
barked at the empty theater
That’s
when we found the Book of
Semi-Consciousness
in
the viral mailbox Loose strings
were
everywhere vibrating with
the
passion of ancestors and unbalanced equations
for
geniuses of swank and diddly-squat…bow bow bow
Man the torpedoes seemed like an
appropriate phrase
to
insist upon after a brunch of vigorous vegetables
“It’s
time for my scenario,” you said.
3
“And
the Pulitzer for Narcolepsy goes to
The
man in the grey flannel underwear.
No
kidding…Just kidding. Welcome to
The
Netherworld of Sleep. And boy, do we
Have
the right mattress for your aching
Head.
Just look at this baby; it comes with
One
hundred and fifty settings for getting
The
most out of long and short bouts of
Sleep.
You like it hard and she likes it soft;
You
like it soft and she likes it hard.
O
the gradations between hard and
Soft
are fun to discover! Now turn
Your
attention to the HD TV consoles
Built
into footboards, headboards and
Side
railings. Plus, each pillow in this
Baby
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For
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Convenient
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Of
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friends,
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Never
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From
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Ponder
or solve the conundrums of
Dreams
and associated flak from the
Unconscious,
you’ll be able to text your
Friends…better
yet keep up with mundane
Office
tasks and current global crises.
Look,
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Down
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Communication
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Even
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And
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If
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Free
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Of now I lay me down to
sleep.
Tell me
How
can you beat a deal like this?”
4
I
burrowed deep into a night of traffic and lipstick
It
was raining
An
old man was snoring
Sound
familiar
Check
out the contusion on my forehead
You
called it an egg
Yes,
the “you” of whomever in the linguistic landscape
There
weren’t adequate resources to investigate the cause of the injury
Somnambulism
Vertigo
Inebriation
Hallucination
It
was dark as I remember
As
if the lights in the apartment went out in a storm
You
kissed my cheek
I
had aged in the hue of your lips
In
the street cars continued to honk at each other
I
thought of the price of eggs
Canada
geese in flight across a starless sky
The
egg glowed like a miner’s light
I
kept digging
Made
by way to bed by morning
Wouldn’t
get up
On
Saturday
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