#366: SHRIVELED ZYGOTE

the shriveled zygote swims
from place to place
organism
in error
the balding zygote
unfinished
with prenatal luxury
walks weirdly
from flesh to flesh
in questionable form

no one will ever tell the stunted zygote
the truth
about zygotes
that they could never be
as veiny and hairless as he

he will float on, content,
through corridors flooded with light
and redolent of janitorial smells

 lone
 infinitesimal
corruption

#365: DAYDREAM

now the senator named after
butt-sex discharge
recommends that survivors of gun-
massacres
take a class in CPR

whereas i escape that sad reality
by imagining
all the first-family incest-porn
that is bound to hit the market

and am comforted by this
at least relatively innocent
daydream

#364: JOHN B (throwback)

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#363: ThAN WHICH NONE BIGGER

Wow you will have engineered for yourself
the biggest imaginable fail
that is to say your fuck-up
will be so large scale
everybody on earth will know, and be glad they are not you
even motherfuckers in jail
for life will be like: gee
i'm really glad i'm me

#362: A WITTICISM REMEMBERED

Ashbery’s sphinx-like witticism

defied translation into Latin

that fine day

when freedom had previously been glimpsed

in that inappropriate piece of advice

delivered sagely

but intended merely

as a compliment

rather a blank compliment

as if by means of autofill

I remember it was unseasonably cold

on the English Dept. steps

I had my jacket buttoned all the way up

and it was fall

and shit

from all around

was coming down hard

#361: TRANCE

in the middens of the night
he rise
to barefoot tiptoe
on the frosty grass

he try crazy things


and then he tiptoe back

#360: DETONATION

the Austin bomber
has blode hisself up
at last what a sick
son of a bitch
and secondarily what a waste
of demolitions