soldiers rode with sendeh
to hills above the city
“sendeh leave with your auto and turban and medicine
we know it’s you and won’t be tricked”
sendeh smiled as he began to drive away
“soldiers i have already tricked you
with your own medicine.
now wrap your beautiful turbans,
mine is fitted for the highway”
boojum frank ghost sir richard laymon rap
percentages
seasons acts overcoming
whole separate
anytime anywhere on the road lottery
pay the man
pay as you go cash
build and play duress
gracespeedpowercraft
threatening success from rickety hallows
white ball ash bat
heavy atmosphere
mortar melting and blowing away
through night and day
when time lapse
rises a fiery vision quest
expanding wings eyes mouths pulsing
roaring diffused
many thousands dream
oceans right down hill
absorb soaring vision after vision after vision
space beyond absorbs ocean after ocean
absorbs itself
music diffused
many more thousands dream
as if
chemistry were alchemy
physics astrology
mathematics numerology
history eugenics
psychology phrenology
poetry telepathy
our best and brightest
might solve the half-life of fear and hatred
the eternity of what was said and done
engineer redress.
and yet
hail hearty noble youth
commissioners sprawl about the table
misters bonefish, toadley, macflie, spongeson, and mahlisck
overwhelming putrid farting with donated cigar smoke
dulling single minds with gifted liquor
playing pocketpool with rolls of dough
sharing needles of noxious high
too many kings in the strange deck
they gamble away
children asleep by a coalbin outside
dream of greenfields and bent fishingpoles
instructed
arrayed performance
vessels in waves crystalling flaking cratering branching networking ranging faulting striking
contracted minutes
lub dub murmur crackle whistle rub gasp grate gallop
ball flying in soaring out snapping to connecting with arcing across
with turf wood leather steel cotton wool plastic
mud grass lime tar resin sweat lager ale sugar meat
pant snort tap crunch squelch pop crack thud whack shout roar thunder
sun mist bright grey spotlight backdrop green brown black orange blue mottled pixels in time
into pitches snaps strikes yards seconds outs downs bases hashes innings possessions runs points games series seasons
pieces process symmetry chaos
its never time
without shadow
free winds
seeds
sun
surviving
adapting
sheltering
alone
words take flight
raining on footsteps
and falling leaves
turn on the faucet
rains here run to stormy sea
clouds walk by
streets whisper doomsday
towncity left alone
they dont come
blues about
hush now
dont quit me
long way to go
repair
resource
rear
returnturnturnturn
rehold
refree
leeward
to peas beans melons cantaloupes asparagus crabs oysters
orchards picnics
sick sailors immigrants dying contagious with mary
suburban mirage manguano cannery company town
baseball beer dancing burlesque
manufactury refinery petrolasphaltchemicalpool rails
gastank smokestack waste
liberty victory jumboizing containerizing
community clutching sandymuddyoiled rubbishroad
to fairfieldbrownfield
and beyond
to pleasant prospect adventure utopia
sweating river
