Members of the Jansenist sect having convulsions and spasms as a result of religious fanaticism, B. Picart
sado-lyrical theory-scented self-troweling fleur de lis-adjacent
null-spurting sieve-lipped reverse-mimetic ear-jerked spool-kissing
post-amniotic meme-grubbing scuttle-tongued hydro-coiffed
pseudo-phobic anal-inventive smudge-friendly retro-Hegelian clitoral-remiss
poon-befuddled lisp-hording narco-omniscient aspic-induced
Ur-tumescent bonbon-fitted psycho-linguistic near-fetched d’etre-scented
(Enter the narrator with a diabolical pompadour. He speaks.)
“Keep the observer out of the description,
for as we know
what roses remain
have nothing left to do
with toothless frostweed’s bitter love.”
proven insufficient now absorbing lubricants
supine with synecdoche
random iotas culpable pie
“Would someone vulcanize my forte, ‘ere the magpies billow?”
(The narrator seems to be proposing a “false consciousness reach-around” in a two car garage)
“Withdraw upon your melancholy wings.
Ignore the distinctive crybaby haunting of
red ghosts drinking names
through incisions in memory.”
anecdotal lipstick gulping fall guy
verb-mitered damp impertinence
diagnosis retro-fitted elastic horn-rimmed nostalgia
or maiden voyage torso laminator steeped in god terms
fluent lozenge guzzler incubate ennui
homunculus flambe’ sheathed in falsehoods her nest feathered
astride carousel daydreams
thrice-bestirred goo clinic
bullfrog praxis thermidor infarction
fuse latent homecoming downwards
bullet point follicle cream interloper
dollar signs for eyes
kidney-limping ecclesiastical puff matrilineal
signifying urchin nodes
Sadie Hawkins freeze frame sobriety check
her
faux touch knee bends up
(faun may dread real arrows)
dazed myth brain-slaughter
seaside spa “spite-lickings”
(The narrator sings with lute accompaniment)
“O she’s a pheromoaner
a regret-bubble saboteur
a permeable self-box laminator
refusing pillow talk”
(He pauses, dreamy-eyed, awaits applause that never comes. Then he points a finger directly at the reader.)
“Though I be mantis-eyed and aberrant, these tithe-sniffers I’ll no longer abide!
Uncoddled flux redeemer, pivot now!
(Why does this broth taste disdainful?)
Don’t you know the rose has withered? Don’t you know
December frostweed
forms ice flowers
replacing summer blooms?”
the stuttering nights too late the sexual filibustering moon pouring talcum in the wine too
late the séance-audits and amnesiac nuptial swooning the regretful nacre in silver thimbles
the slipknot orthodoxy and commodified pangs too latetoo late the lacquered sincerity
and practiced “catch” in the voice the entropic similes crooned over car radios the fatalism
by candlelight the lilac whips the Keatsian sigh the hormonal eclipse and emotional neap
tide with its swash zone of dream rinds and lost car keys too latetoo latetoo late(The narrator wishes to distract you with rhetorical flagellation.)
(Isn’t that what you wanted? Isn’t that why you came?)
“Existential peepshow flunky with your Lenten stalagmite fantasies, cease your arrhythmia!
Quell your dipodal longings. Cast aside your lyrical pining.
Fetch me some squid-finesse!
Sniff intimate fractals.
These wanton lacunae on freckled mattresses were my idea . . .
as was
THE TAPIOCA VERDIGRIS!”
cramp-flavored candy-itching mire-infused rhizome-smitten strangler-ready
Naugahyde-friendly vibro-fellatial congenitally-rose-malingering micro-Platonic
inter-axial hanky-turvy kiss-proof faery-orbed counter-truculent
margarine-besmirched omni-distant porridge-begetting quasi-orgasmic
auto-phallic Uber mensch-besotted trans-gelatinous infra-Pentecostal
hyper-mammalian toadying-soft-palette-logjam-gobbing proto-spasm
(The narrator raises an eyebrow and offers the reader a spoon.)
