here I go
-f
--a
----l
----- l
- en
jambment,
bridging (nothing)
more than fragments.
apologize, I'm not very
good with metaphor;
she's too much like me
in composition,
played to death or at least
until the end of the period
.
Wrestling with ampersands,
I'll never live to the end of a stanza
(so long as I call myself a work of fiction)
And then I was lost in translation.
The punchline prizerfighter spitting cracked
teeth like it missed a glassjaw and hit a funnybone
so hues laughing at the white-flag now,
colour blind bastards lick at the navel
and pull themselves by the umbilical,
still-born babies escaping from the dawn
stretched into thin skinned verse,
a mighty elephant cut from the tusks
wisely remembers to utter malapropism
under her breadth should she be strung
witless by a crass clown, jocular
if not sardonic, that you may become
something other than a lengthy poem,
that started in brittle bits of pride,
broken
-d
-- o
--- w
----- n
into old charred bones of prose,
too dull to pick teeth clean
the locked poetry jaw
mumbling horrors of good ol' days
spent within the grave,
turning over to
denouement
for a kiss
of ivory.
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