Or last elastic factotum, + his fearless flaws. With those weisenheimer eyes of clay, cries of fire, lies of ire. & other bloody Boers. Boring into the motherlode with bloodlust, glee, & comradely corruption. Lest we drub him with fireworks & snare drums, extensions & assignations. Puny & dangling, dabbling with the rabble, rat-a-tat-tapping our twinkle toes on Judy Garland's pill-popped pate. We who've lost ours in the proverbial melée weep nary a tear, natch. Whilst you lot run reeling, stretching to stash our mistakes before they snarl & snatch yours.
That Everyman's dog barks Everyhere, else pops Prozac with his puppy chow. After heavy rain ancient animosities blossom & bite. Another swell chance to hoard junked foodstuffs + the gift of gas. Top the food chain to find handcuffs—a sylvan hostage situation, after which it's one for all, all for one, + anyone's guilty guess. Tangled in this web of our own mayhem, choked by too much and not enough, looking to our slaves for affection and a workable excuse.
As if. Until. Skilled as you are with that whimsical drill, you shopworn Sagittarian. Warned as you were, warm as you are, wan & waning. Rest with me, now; listen & learn; tumble & turn. To dragonflies for help with speed & sex. & lobed oaks proffering mourning + the restitution of Mozart to Derrida. No more to sing the subject, which has expired for lack of the correct change. Which is & is not to suggest that God is out there after all, loitering with the other loafers, sniggering from His insuperable remove.
Susan Lewis's collection of prose poems, How to Be Another, will be available in May from Červenà Barva Press. Her chapbooks are The Following Message (White Knuckle Press, 2013), At Times Your Lines (Argotist e-books, 2012), Some Assembly Required (Dancing Girl Press, 2011), Commodity Fetishism, winner of the 2009 Červenà Barva Press Chapbook Award, and Animal Husbandry (Finishing Line Press, 2008). Her work has been published in countless journals and anthologies. She is Managing Editor of MadHat Press, MadHat Lit, and MadHat Annual, and occasional guest editor at Altered Scale and Right Hand Pointing. Her website is www.SusanLewis.net.
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