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from Self-Portrait of the Poet Suicided by the MFA Degree

a hummingbird hiking up its skirt

 

 

...Civil War VHS

a blank canvas of snow, morphine & concrete

scrapbook nostalgia

acrobat bone chaos & absurd conceits

w/ narrative contexts:

wind-swept blood clot fire plug embellishment

old-timer jugband tunes

& FM Braille shipwrecked against personal experience—

an incredibly beautiful exorcism;

a refurbished boatshed

where Theodore masturbates to “The Story of O”

w/ some scissors & glue

as well as a little help from Elsie, probably...

a priori whispering

kamikaze butterfly anatomy operating theatre collage

a textbook perspective

educated w/ box wine & owd-feshioned spelling bees

archetypally, in principal

our clothes on the floor in a b&w summer vacation

photographed by Reed B. Bontecou, MD

w/ a star-spangled banshee

enslaved to ceramic doll frottage—

the dreamy eroticism w/in the petite stabs at seventh heaven

celestially horrific

avec birdcage elevator orgasm imprimatur

paralytic, nevertheless

blatant Caravaggio ex cathedra mise-en-scène...

uncouth exit hyperbole

there isn’t enough melodrama

out of left-field

to outright Norman Rockwell sexual resonance—

empirical, jejune

imagine cherubim or dove plastic surgery

handsomely ferocious loveseat transcendence

yet macabre in the meantime...

 

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