(before I write the checks)

(before I write the checks)

all too expositional
the moving
from place to
somewhere
arms floating
legs
slow motion
mind spinning
as spider
on fire
Bergman snapshot
Dali razor blade eye
blink
blink
blink
I am not Magritte
not a wanderer
less dreamer
more dream within
dream photograph
holding photograph
in a mirror
all too expositional
thoughts explode
ants in a line
volunteering for abattoir
popping
popping
pop and
the whistling
in the back of my
head in the back
of a coffee
shop in a coffin
the sound of beards
growing cold
sighing ink
scarring paper
with predictability
and that particular cadence
all too expositional
an earnest importance
fashion sense
self promotion
a pleasant cut
cut
cutting
of wrist ribbons
opening
closing night
killing spree cult
of person
persona
personality malfunction
tombstone milk carton
photographs of missing
lost and found
couch surf
street sleep
zombie apocalypse victim
in the morning
breakfast of the damned
all too expositional
billboard faces franchising
secret recipe souls
fried in that unclean oil
17 secret mores and
customs inspectors to
save future anthropology
step
two step
dub step
carbon footprints
too much booze
too many clues
secret rhymes for
dubious amusement
clowns on cyanide stages
smaller and smaller as they leave
orbit
obit
odd bit
leave it out
leave it out
excise the facts
carried out on
mashed potato crucifixes
scalpel red gravy
and everyone must get
stoned
“St. Steven with a rose
in and out of the garden he goes”
martyred
dead but grateful
un-lost souls
all too expositional
take a nap
close those guillotined eyes
sleep deprivation
deprived
depraved
destroyed
enjoy the irony
breathe the silence
say goodnight