XXIX
Une Charogne
Knock hard on your view the objectsymptomatic of farmers or livestock
This morning in a boatthe quarry.
The water tower after the sentry’s watch ended, his fly undoneand quail eggs falling forward
On the blazing wheat fieldsor some blue
Throws your hands in the air, commissarwhere duck-bills
Roughly brilliant and swankyshooting
Open the egg timer handily but the pen brokeall of this a moment ago, gone
His venetian blindswhile perjury
The son of the heir sued the tailorI suppose. If pennies come through the roof
A man with a letter C, a sharkold hand at it
And surrendered to the hundredand the marlins fall on the deck
All of thoseisn’t worth a powder.
Eating on the ceiling or looking, singingcalling my shale garden
A man with a letter C, or nota fluid ounce of
The doughy punter was soLovely. She’s the gardener
You and your croutons youmostly gone.
The red wine idiot drunk bugsquietly sleeping or burnishing
Or where sortinghandrails
Soap on the wharves, who’s bootyand towels drying on the roof-tops
The long frostyamong flutists. Among pianists
All of this, cellists came downmade all the difference in November
Or was it a christmas crullerstrung too tightly
One of them was saying that the bodytoo roughly while marlins fell
Lived in secretshe polishes my shoes.
The world drawsShe polishes my shoes and zeroes
A man with a letter C last easterI keep
Or the headache a bird lives withlovers of ham hocks locking bumpers
A cute butt and toeswhile no bread leaves
The forms shave themselves away like an ice blockShe’s asiatic or agrarian
One buckle left overlosing the battles
On the forgotten toilet paper,or the pimentos crushed her house
Only bank notesnothing but gladiolas
At the back of the roach motel.stolen, only Ballantine ale, the saviour
Our registerscalliope. Mr. Shugarth,
He paints elephants the momenta mongrel dragging away the tent
The morselopinionated or owls
—And why can’t you turn on the sink or the tubthe mailbox blown down the street
To this hoand cinnamon
Starlit mayoralitygrazing where she kissed her husband
Your money,or good morning
Yes you tell yourself you’re the teller seriouslykettles and kettledrums or a sidewinder
Apricots layon the football field
When you were called by pigsIs this boring you? There’s more
Moishe answered your letters by 5 o’clockduck feathers
So what the o my beautiful dittyand swallows with tin cans
Who are you trying to manhandleposting up
What I’d throw down into the mayhem laughingwhile the train filled with marlins
Of my amounts, loves, foxesand so-and-so who is still talking.