10 Invalid Additions

so unlike the halting tortoise to reassimilate in the prickly sidebed
despite the comatose tiger.


playing cards in the hammock of false horns.

lettuce in quinine. thrown away gauze wrappings.
prolonged use of emollients on tiara'd purple butts.


on uniform dropcloths, stand
uncounted folding chairs, each with painted cursive backs

restating the italicized will, word by word.



foot high mounds of uncooked corn.


camel sawing phonograph into rough edged pieces;

penciling in invalid additions.

9 When the Cornfield Camels Cut

three minutes to annihilate the prickly bedside rabble...


the butt with horns crossing the defective parking lot...

tiaras left on heads of lettuce...quinine in thermos bottles...
dark purple 'laughables' prolong the scoffing.


comatose tiger king, 'Papa Locus', wrapped in gauze
and dipped in yogurt, in a throwaway attempt...

the night is still, to a degree.


a series of accomplices under the guise of
garter-covered party goers
saw up the clifftop commando 'barriers'.



many miles away, in afternoon sun,
cornfield camels sitting in caneback chairs
cut up puzzle pieces to old phonograph music.


candles and corncobs piled across folding chairs
in a hammock of used nooses.


an unalloyed wave of the same mockery as before.

8 A Smear of Nothing

three minutes to parlay in the bedside elevator.

to decide to cross the dockyard rabble

passing out defective thermos bottles and
tacky tiaras.


still a degree of noise for quinine and lettuce.


manager's big toe wrapped in gauze
and dipped in a yogurt cup.

comatose, on the extension, in a throwaway gesture.


candles on top of sawhorses...light up the clifftop barriers.

commando squad of eleven
climbing up from the reef

to execute from behind.


Respectfully add a smear of nothing.

Mockery from the man with the corncob complexion.

7 The Defects in Cactus Rubbers

anointed abnormally...something about standing by the bedside elevator.

purple knuckles wave bye-byes...remarkable method acting camels...
one nightfall in pillow hooded anonymity.

pyramid of sawhorses.


eleven comatose crows on tumbledown Plaza furniture.

'Mr'. Depression's ivory jugs, so fatally firm...yet, the sinkingly single
defects in cactus rubbers.


flouted Tiger Laws of the Empire...

buckling antelopes fashioned into folding chairs.


an unavoidable diet of vulcanized avocado paddies
on throwaway oval doilies.

mounds of fainting talk of further Annihilations.


phony suicide notes carved into squatting rocks.