Trying to clip the creek
to the bank with a clothes pin
Waterlogged system, rusty spring,
faulty planning
Logic squeezed out like mustard at
a corndog
Hypertension is not wisdom,
chew ing the leather straps
Trying to hold the sun
still with a bobby pin
Burned fingers. excellent
conductor of heat
Private fantasies are not public policy
Christian charity is a doily
over my death boner
Busy work is not the Great Wall of China
Vanity bamboo hut out back
behind the big house
Pretend is salve for whitey-
boy guilt
Furiously slapping at the moon
with a cane pole
Trying to prop up the heavens
with a fresh flat pencil
Some folks are allergic to rubber
I am trying to stitch this
one to all the rest of them
But the seams will split,
collide and cleave
Neopolitan ice cream is never truly integrated
until it s too late
Trying to stop the bleeding
with scotch tape
Platelets spoil adhesion,
fire up the cauterizing iron
It's a branding of ne
cessity not scarification
Bliss was a pimple that I tried to pop
It erupted up and out on my countenance
Ugly eruption, Vesuvius,
ugly eruption, Vesuvius
Ugly eruption, Vesuvius
Vesuvius at myself,
Vesuvius at myself