oxygen deprived

Polka dots & mung beans, &
millions of dead fish floating
& coating kilometers of river.
Essentially they're all ingre-
dients, the type of thing you
keep in your kitchen cupboards

along with other ingredients.
Ready to be thrown into a
mixing bowl & turned quickly
into a topical &/or nostalgic
treat should your relatives
unexpectedly come around.


Gourmand eyes

Wearing a
seasonally
significant
hachimachi
headband

the kami-
kaze poet 
prepares to 
eat himself
to death.

He fails. &
the wind
is not
divine.


He spent the morning 

deciding what color Model T to ask for. Assembly lines were de facto machines of war—the Arsenal of Venice, Springfield Rifle. He wanted to disrupt the process.

 
The $1 million white picket fence

Subtlety or stupidity? I'm never
sure which when it comes to the
Defense Force. So I debate myself 

about what the Army's up to in
raising a gigantic sign which reads:
A STRONG FENCE CAN MATE 

MULTIPLE TIMES IN  A SINGLE
SEASON & STILL SERVE AS
GRACELAND'S GUEST BOOK.


Le Civilisateur
(after the paintings by Magritte)

Three paintings of a dog, all
different dogs but the same
one painted. All different names
but painted under the same
name. Somewhere I read that 

this Loulou was black, but painted 
white for the occasion. Narrow 
nostrils, but supposedly had a 
big heart. So loved by its child-
less owners that it traveled with

them everywhere, even to the 
States, its right of passage paid
for by a promise to allow the fuse-
lage of one of the airline’s planes
to later carry a Magritte motif.

All things pass, including the in-
fluence of a civilizer. The livery 
of the plane redone to reflect new 
alliances. & of the other themed air-
craft, Tintin will be the next to go.