Uncle Sato

his beard is a rib-
bon, bon-bon, an overcoat,
a roll of dead fleas

2248

we have devalued
our waste, our fossils, our spines
cast in earthly stone

Passport

inconvenience is
this brain taco and paper-
less hole in the ground

For Nina

wipe with a mink, and
say a prayer for yourself, for
you are suede jacket

This Whip is a Miracle

flexible ginger-
bread man, you are warm and wel-
come, talk me awake

Age Twelve and Lonely

outhouse vacuum-fish
clean the edges of my tank,
be my companion

Hello Blue Monday (with apologies to Kurt Vonnegut)

lipid love in a
water glass, butterfish mid-
night, roll-on ocean

Redeye

a plane landed in
my underpants yesterday,
floating, as if, trout

Electrical Storm in the Ghetto

brown-out is too ea-
sy-- maple scarves of shez, is
more like it, rich-ass...

Middle School

she hit me with an
orange ruler, out the win-
dow, Spring and bird shit

The Difference

clockwise, you succumb
to noon, its elm tree finger-
nails; counter, you poop

Wipe That Mistress Clean

a mugful of as-
teroids: this is what my fa-
ther promises her...

Arugula Salad

flakes, like corn, like snow
cascade in rust-colored fall-
ings; puddles are warned

Papa's Armageddon Dream: Fishing

my father evac-
uates the boat and his bow-
els. Trout take over.

On Not Making the Cheerleading Squad

popularity
is the lipstick on the ass-
hole of the dead dove

Discarded Lines

florid, horrid, spi-
ral-bound, the page is a flow-
er, flowing downward

Reverse Seasonal Flush

in a dream of March,
the leaves shoot back up into
their big sycamores

"Wind"

the backyard is a
sixty-degree carrot, peeled
catalyst to wind

Limpopo

winter lion, loo-
paper tongue, clean the trash the
country left behind

Instructions, Soul Train

follow the picture
frame to bitch-station, un-nail
the backing, find me