Such a Nation


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such a nation made him
hang his head in shame
articulating red-tongued
bubble gum story book
descriptions of a simple time
of a simple people
of the canned goods
that made a child smile

his destitution was only
augmented by his institution
his unjust scarlet sea foam fever
running along the walls and back �
an adobe for his wealth
and healthy pakistani cargo jets

his narrition cooked him while
looking for a chance to smirk
white shine for his afternoon monk:
a hooded topple-building soma sam
only willing to comfort his
choice of speech thought
and his point of view failures

l�empire c�est la paix
and:
their language meaning shock
a true voltage appreciation
a real skill to laugh and be laugh
and sing laugh like a lullaby
to the ones we loved so much
he wished he could say more
but the elegy is to begin
and he is ready to commence
a time when no one seems to care
and all play school and doctor tag
(Red rover Red rover el santo come over)
chartreuse marrow bringings
for boys with disease and a
broken soul paid part time
first come first serve last beat
tapped to his Sunday morning routine
it�s suburbia honey my thin golden honey
my former clone guilted
her twelve golden coins
her transsexual shelter mouse
buried beneath all the miles
and seconds and oxygen masks
and a body so cold that its skin turned to stone

his intent was to marry a girl
he could bring home to dinner
and write to in letters
with jet black ink painted
so cursively scribbled
a once fair example of fair skin
and fair hair and complexion not ashen
and dirtied and matted down pat
with ugly thoughts hopes and dreams
of an innocence sparkling
orbiting us like a halo
a yellow a ballad so rich
it could bite ever slowly
and float our excesses
of life gone awry
to his old smelly winter coat
beaten and court

such a hailstorm froze him
our energy jilted our candy
collected a full moon a cookie
a callous example of ignorance power
of aftertaste numbing
of Mister Macbeth at first class
rising tripping stumbling
piercing his tongue with his
sharp shiny teeth

gazing away to a future stopped dead
read times in the Times
since long gone the hours
where painted a picture
so black and white
so naked and blankfaced
he covered his ears
and opened his eyes


II

dream pillows fluffed carefully
sadly but carefully for a
head rotting down
for a baggage told only
to his sacred body to
his illicit concept of time
the flower clock ticking away
and a teapot with floating rodents
and bellbottomed maggots
unduly gazing at
young baby girls like some
object or aluminum xylophone
or perhaps simply
a wish once befallen
gored sandy explosive
and now there are hiding
in these femme institutions
the teachings of dream
of a bed without slavery
false sense of honor
and mutual hatred enough

to fall down to the ground
like a home of numbers
or cardboard or
soft pale talc

and he thought maybe
so much more could be said
sewn fastened his lips frozen
dry his tongue scarred his mind

halted and barren land
at the end of the fortieth night
he might revelate whence our
intrusion came clear like
Satan so very well sharpened up
(and the night so blotted out
a fantasy isle in the tropics
or tantalized majesty crushish
velvet wrapped round the ankles)
bears no resemblance to
our cousins trapped deep
making infants sob
and mamas weep

at high time he ever could
gaze solemnly at a sparkle glass
a crystal ball spinning
never meant for aging
for my father�s mortuary
a tea time entrancing

Mad Hatter has fallen
and replaced with his deceased�
yes your kingdom has died
your majesty busy
with boys in grimy armor
a tick tock again
back before a safety
back before the bubble
of foresight and hindsight
shade deemed bursted
by town callers short and slim
losing their voices
their sing song Tales
to his newspaper clippings
of eclipted citizens
all shadow�d so black

the brightest of flames
could just possibly be
a premeditated attack                                                 
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