Cabaret

Now that lips are glue
Tit for tat
And the egg timer is chipping away
The meat between real and imagined
The chalky line anew
Off center, unbalanced, askew

Any one helping
Compared to the this and that
Of a Vegas buffet
What's fresh and what's scavenged
All ducks in a row, foxes stealthing
Converged, domestic, yelping

Owing it to some orangutan
Neither here nor there
Flexed and ready
Some thumb, some tail
Erotic, symbolic, grotesque rambutan
Cut off at the pass, caravan

Outsmarting whom? Death? Creator? Destroyer?
Breaking down components of 'stare'
Fixated glare, heavy, philosophical, heady
All mixed up in that chalk dust pail
Enough material leads for a lawyer
Calculated, seedy, voyeur
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8.4.09