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From the anthology, Monster Trees, a work in progress.

Mastications In One Movement

Mastications In One Movement


Lathering on the ranch dressing, 
mixed with honey mustard grunting;
these inhaling engorging souls are
finding the emotional precipice, 
high up and dangling,
hanging by french fried ropes, 
smothered in thousand island arrhythmias.
here come the fat waiters, 
pushing arteriosclerotic meat carts, 
spangled in barbecued thrombosis
and chocolate-covered infarctions,
served au jus on peanut butter trays
filled with maple syrup cherries and 
white-creamed heart palpitations.
You know what I mean? 
You’ve smelled those words before, 
tasted their glazed cordials,
licked the candy flowers 
as they swayed there, and
sucked the inner pap of the sweet melon
with perspiring brow; now
having a reason to wake up, it is
time for cupcakes and cinnamon churros 
with the vanilla-skirted girls,
marinating inside bacon and lettuce taxis, 
dipped in onion teriyaki, sizzling 
delicious smoke with au gratin effusions.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2020

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