An Inconvenient Tooth

These wide open doors at seventeen with windchill
Up on a platform
Crisp sounds of horns and gas engines below
Praises to Frozen Allah!
Three cheers for Iced Jesus Man!
Hear, Hear! for Chilly Buddah!

A diagnosis comes in for more stretching, more heat and more ice.
Save yourself! Bury yourself in snow and drink hot chocolate and stay away from akimbo.

Here, a thermos of coffee...
And, just over there --
a limoncello

Your solid brick chutney
can't stop the vibration
of a full hot charge
five hundred thousand volts of explosive godlengths
Your puny dark-meat bones no match
for a zap from Osiris
You have no words for that
You have no right
to have words
for that

Before little league
Perhaps Karate
and Ballet
and stop using the word CIGARETTE
cylinder of tobacco
is so much more appropriate
and stop making muscles like a fucking goon
You have no facility
No facilities
You have no authority
You've jury rigged an existence
and my life is complicated
My lid is closed
My forest burned
All charred cinders to the beach
washed up
along shore
not even logged
or watery or
able to become dry today
this week
this year
Barren
like so many squirrels
having eaten plastic garbage bags
that have internally become squirrel contraceptive devices
like IUD's or squirrel diaphragms

I don't even care enough
to go back and edit
Better words
exist out there
outside of here
beyond this bubbled skin
skinstacy skintasm skinalism

Not even caring enough
to go back for you
drowned on the beach
not really drowned or logged or watery
but still
there
on the beach
alone
and needing some assistance
with Words
and their placement
I'm paraphrasing but
you said
"GADZOONTITE"
and also "Muskles"
and also "Meat"
as in 'things that are good for you'
as in
things you know
and all that other stuff
like massacre
rain dance
and Babaloo
--
3.6.12

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