21 august

for my own protection
am i redirected
this senseless press
styles filed away under vogue or irrelevant
trash in the outhouse and outlaws in the kitchen
twitch and see: the word is good
wild enough for vegetables
the truck will take the cart horse out for dinner
no charm is foul
too much is also rough
stuff the shirt, hang the fruitpies

try me a riverbed and see how i sleep
deep in the pockets of a hundred rocks
talk is cheap when the reaper's not grim
sink swimmingly as the dinner party downloads

playing the fool and also the king
plead insanity
when calamity comes for dinner
thinner than an albatross and twice at least as tall

more than a glitch of coincidental engineering
fearing the steering will give out, we bring our doubts
steer bluffs to all the right listeners
twisting blurs the disregard
all the cards are stacked
we are the traps we set ourselves
we are the first person plural
mind full of disregard
too allaround to focus on
crows and feet and ceiling wax
smoothing out the overhead