#199: Holocaust centers

but your head is the holocaust center
your mouth is the holocaust center

your eyes are blisters of film
your ears are the drains
in concrete floors
and those
are ashes falling from your nose

until I don't know which comes first:
your smile
or the ovens

but surely the question is academic:
tissue, ash, adipocere
    all of it
        drains into the center

        which is, in turn,
full of cracks
  and fissures

Poem 101: Enter Bastard. Solus.

Wherefore base. Bastard? Base?
Spelled same:bass and bass
as in bass clef
and bass boaet

bass? bass?
which one am I saying:
one rhymes with face
while other rhymes with ass.

of course I know
it comes from the Latin
base
plus 'tard'

to be dealt with later
as in the art, or,ars, of.

I hope you're getting this.

bass plus tard: bastard
means 'begot in a saddle'

tis why I am alive:
so,
let copulation thrive