Miracle Implant
you got a brain in there you're reading this
when's the last time you found yourself using it
to continue assembling the puzzle pieces
in the proximity of an existential grievance
minus the usual cheap suit wonderment
in agitated defense of your cosmic rights
with a recognition that truth is a good buzz
for all you approval junkies out there
chronically frightened in the absence of threat
evil continues lurking beneath the bed
given certain necessity preconceptions
about life and fate and disinhibition
shouting up periscope blindness is so passe
the actual eventual bearing down on your position
across eons of engineered and directed darkness
Little Jimmy Nickjean flicked his Bic against the fuse
simply tired of the the chronic trickery
delivered doggedly right between the ribs
by the nearest Projectionist Union gangster
right on schedule a pretext of need in tow
Jimmy's rangy accomplices in distracted liberation
hoisted high the jolly skull and crossed swords
First Mate Nutmeg Lieberman's hips were heaving
like a flat bottom skiff in a Santa Anna swell
oars pumping biting into the foam
swamped by her peculiar passions
screaming with abandon in concluding fruition
splintering windows in a large radius
causing dogs to break their chains
and hump their masters' legs
or any errant pedestrian caught in the open
tails wagging tongues flapping
filling gaps in logic with fantasy
and absent minded indifference
our parched and pale poet
questioning the infinite minutiae
the typewriter in his head going clackety clack
until the cows come home
and goats and pigs and ducks and parrots
an unwished list of the persistently dismissed
Copyright © Walter Alter | Year Posted 2019
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