Platitudes

These lines

Appalling

Deadly apparitions

Like bugs ‘cross my dining room table

You watch them

Easy as play

Clapping

I watch them spindling

Twisting

Humming

Capacitors of death

Filling

Wagging a fluorescent lit room

A penny fuse installed in lieu of liability

Nothing reflects you from this little crown face

I know our immediate instance

Wall over run

But one knock at the door brings you back

Phone and pearls close in hand

I’ve been here all along

Keeping the curves at auction

Wary of factory milk

Bowling oil and reprehensible chai tea

All warped in these shapes and fish lenses

Just walk the woods once with me

Look at the limbs

The way the elephant leg walks

Then we can talk sizes of horror

 

And all you have figured out

Are numbers on a page?

 

How best the market stings

How life digs you

When you’ve recovered

There’s a bigger bug here

A skeleton tapestry

And not a dollar from your soul will you understand

While these noxious lines

In the back of your jaw just

Wear you through.