01.08.06
the perfidious sponge
unfaze the splines of this giddy scorch
deny the coruscation of indeterminate appeal -
lo! bark the lounges of enigma shin-wise and reveal
soft disparate knowledges as crunchy pluralistic spores!
we who are flattened hammers of incision
cut the nail from the music box,
arrange the maelstroms and behemoths in lines
as long as life sentences
with every stroke of our claw pins
(which we have inked in the blood
of bookworms).
denounce the retrofitted exacerbation as pride
unfounded in the dithyrambs of spastic lyres!
renounce the supra-ceded sui generis and abide
within the cozy confines of comfy eclectic wires!
marrow - marrow - morrow! ha!
we have no illusions: what is illustrious today
will tomorrow be as cotton candy in the rain.
energy drinks, cameras and canon fodder will
replace the delineation of rhymes with imagistic
confetti.
there is no shame in the shambles of our itinerant supply,
for heady splines can not but splint the symbols of the dawn
with nascent anomalies unnamed in hammered holes -
thus producing an origami vernacular pre-accustomed
to both bonsai and baobabs
in paper form,
well lit.
un-endow the walls of shadows and sighs
and let the wallflowers return to their ditties in the garden
(all thorn and sour mash,
compost and reticulated hours)
where they might perchance arrive at the unbidden bowl
wherein all things are given the punch of non-existence -
if only as a talisman in the indicative mode,
moonlike and arguably ineffable.
eccentric as these orbits be. like a turtle’s. a happenstance melange. unique.
we alone remake our unformed soliloquies as pop standards.
