My Back Pages (with apologies to Bob Dylan)

life rasps, the tin can
chasing the wedding car with-
out backup singers

Birthday

candles in a toi-
let roll, we blow our thanks to
the womb who shat us

Snowman, in My Father's Image

or so they say. Build
a prosthetic prostate from
an angry blue sleet

On Cleaning the Bird

we eviscerate
and squeeze, keep our beating hearts
hidden in our chests

CNN with One Night Stand

rubberband my soul
with a dickstrap. Feed me chi-
li, call it "love-gold"

Appetizer, Rising

a squirrel in a
green jacket is the next morn-
ing's spinach salad

Prop 8

carpet-muncher, shit-
box. Which water fountain can
I drink from today?

Wet-Pant Side Effect

flower girl, divine
your baskets from the world's first
antibiotic

Ego

lionize the lamb
with blood and mint jelly-- dreams
are intestinal

They Who Will Outlive Us

foam-dome earth, seagull
flies above, cockroach in beak,
nuclear white paint

Still-Life with Cornmeal

filthy doorknob, grease
of a dinner-life, open
table, horrid cloth

Homecoming

this rippable heart
strung over milkweed, tallgrass,
dad, this one-ply life.

Math: This morning it looked like

a minus sign, barge
of regret. Pythagorus
pooped a triangle

Buzzard

undo the cloudline,
buzzard, a pooperino
scavenged, or, avenged

Champagne

this morning alarm:
Traveling Wilburys croon
effervescent joy

Election: My Brown Precinct Reporting

breathe, seagull, breathe, sweet
in, apple out, will I shit
champagne or vodka?

Let's Drink Good Coffee Again (Go Obama!)

from this cup we draw
cherry, spit out the rancid
old, choose well, our world