Face Telegraph
this is where my tale wings away
past the clutches of the irascible Chadwick
up past the hinges and the curly cue
and its vocabulary roofing tiles
preparing to adapt once again
placing the bellows against the embers
possessed by a holy fervor
that could lay waste to nations
in an orgy of justified non-compliance
defying statistics and trivial desire
their suggestions a camp fire ghost story
in another episode of plastic theater
where love is just another kind of attention
another kind of hidden initiator
knowing what it is to be a lesser thing
scribbling no parachute on the walls
of freshly mopped airport bathrooms
seeking salvation at the last minutes as usual
as angel trumpets bleat a new dawn
to Chadwick's army of twerking schizmatics
banging their forks and spoons
in this cafeteria we call existence
where the only real security
is a freezer full of deer meat
mystified by any and all objects of focus
begging the referee to call malarkey
but fat chance in Fat City eh
where suicide is called proving a point
and your body outline is chalked into
a hopscotch court for sadist spirit guides
bicycle messengered to Main St.
otherwise the odds are slender
that we beat this wall to wall sham
brain chemistry is far from absent
in these absent minded calculations
duking it out with the endorphins
that are prying open this clam shell
yes these gestures are mine and mine alone
wrestling back power of attorney
their being an implication to every movement
trying to buy a little more time or mercy
but Chadwick's monopolistic pricing structure
amounts to a rather long term suppression
of what is already by god ours
Copyright © Walter Alter | Year Posted 2019
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