I can't chew gas
Or graze out my tendons, so, so --
Leave
This viridescent lake,
Alone;
Snuff, snuff and cough
Out
The air. The air.
The musk;
The incense saccharin.
It will not hurt.
It can, only — by piece —
Clip off the keratin.
Be free,
Be free.
You'll get used to it
(Won't you get use to it?).
Do not be a jerk...
The blood is the ruler of the metropolis --
It's cursed with arcades;
It fills every black-bitten road;
It caress the insipid rib.
Lick after lick.
Bring your gooey eyes
And it'll flicker like a flea
Inside the dormitory of the skull.
And you'll see it looking, you'll see
How endearing it is, when courage
Gallops from your heart
And squats a finger on it.
You'll feel the satin, the peacefulness,
The gravity of a cleft fruit, heavier
Than the pillars of mausoleums
Pilled and excoriated for the osteologist.
Come on! Be playful with us --
I only ask for death, do not be quantifiable...
Sprawl a tapestry and close the universe instead;
Teach us friendliness,
Teach us with your pretty, useful hands
The dexterity to comb the locks of another life —
I, from ivories,
To sapphire, to glass, to fiesta —
From the plates that clank
Like spring in the absence of health.
Let the fly act —
There's a mountain more blood to spill.
A Nobody
Is far too microscopic for eyes to see,
Far too elusive for the brain to keep
Erotic and civil —
They stumble to their senile bitch,
A cremation ground with a stake! —
'Tis an attempt for society,
By a Carburettor's leech!
Spitting out of the cavern — pitting-out
Carbon dioxide, a heavenly thrill!
You would not do what I do —
Knowing that is enough
For the talker's tongue
To cut
Like soap:
To stop,
The chattering fool, from lashing
Out volts —
But I still--
Do. Oh, You...
What will I rue? —
I, I, I do it for enormity:
There is no other way,
No other day, where I'll be
Below the exacting roof
To run through capillaries
Toward the cornice of the brain;
To hum the exciting tune, far as allowed.
Nothing indelible or special between us,
It takes a minute, then it takes it.
