Culprit

Somehow he was made to feel the culprit
for the sins of all house trained mammalians
the breath he drew apparently criminalized
eventually concluding that 90% of the obstacle course
was the low hanging fruits of bland insanity
designed by the get it right or we rip your eyes out faction
cooking up the usual rigorous crab claw cioppino
merrily bubbling in the chamber pot of the gods
their high court of iniquity assigned me into the care
of multinational 4 star celebrity ladle virtuoso
chef Aristotle Von Nilmann grillmeister emeritus
filling bellies quilting the perpetual food chain
long since time and gluttony began
who could sizzle the eyebrows off a veldt giraffe
using no tinder or conflagrance whatsoever
his baleful cross-eyed stare having been licensed
as a terrifying weapon of mass deduction
the product of chronic identical summation
no matter the frame or gist or significance
stretching back into the dawn of conception
spasmoegomanaically in the Germanic sense
tho equally Cimmerian or Tezcatlipocian
in the universally benificently sense
a security perimeter being a somewhat necessity
in the realms of imagination that so suffuse
our incapacity to generalize other than by self expansion
it's all a bit of me has become the golf ball in the cup
and we measure existence by the elasticity it confers
angels smile upon us in spite of their frowns
for it is not all feathers and tap dancing clowns
apparently after all these aeons we can discern
that the evidence is not discerned with acuity
belting the blues like Pork Chop Annie
I can't imagine how you could listen to him
for more than 30 seconds under lunar lighting
a hoot owl perched branchwise above
says there's money on you boy
and boy replying while eating his booger
who me the me who began
or the me who began again

Copyright © Walter Alter | Year Posted 2020

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