19.07.25
Vollum ventriloquisms
& the aesthetic emetic you say
in the bath houses in the steamrooms
you dictate less frequently face-to-face,
but what is the politics of phobia today?
Tug Haven the starflowered objects
of competitive identification
the cities, the emotional high beta three waves
the portfolios, the flyover faces
authoritarian personalities,
& male fantasies
you emerge in propria persona
as the guide to formal parterres
completely aflame herbaceous borders
& flowering shrubs in a girdle of starres
& MRI’s die
their nuclear fuel
like whisperless strips calcined
falling outside jurisdiction
of municipal bins
now closed forever
without seeing
yaxleys hidden
in broken sleeps
in the headlamps
that burn you into a blindspot
this is how we speak now
like the shallow firth
of anthrax air treeless today
& in the first five minutes
of your death
do all the violent deeds glow
like under liquid
or is it not worth thinking
or reading about?
