Theater of Utter Charm Part 4
Part 4
this is a big high nine
to all my homies and homers and homoerotics
out there where the pedal hits the mental
as we head off upon a merry adventure
to the 20th century's aftermath party
with a bag of crushed Antarctic ice
hi kids it's time for another ride to the 7-11
or is it the 9/11
or 911
in Little Wally's brakeless Hudson Hornet
cue in creep show music and a long scream
another serialized epic
to keep you on the cliff of your seat
groaning through an evening of constipation
logic being a process of elimination
the master of ceremonies fondles the mike
his voice a vast canyon echo machine
let's meet our next contestant
as soon as he puts an option on poetry futures
please welcome our startlingly disoriented guest
the most honorable and temporary
Little Wally Wonder Juvenile Laureate
suma cum loudly demeritus
and now gracing our present situation
he spoke to the assembled celebrants
packed into O'Hooligan's Bait & Tackle back room
for half a century before they grasped
his take on the Abracadabra Phalanx
concluding it was not the only game in town
and also that the Czar and his family
got what they deserved
we want to believe in our marrow
that the smartest wins every time
the chronic daily outcomes however
appear to happily slappily require
more than marginal improvement
more than the granting of a wish then
usually one you never made to boot
malefactum you miracle workers
some mess you've left us with
hypnotist bastards manipulating their populations
according to maps we've never seen
willful arrogant hypochondriac
lapdogs to their own ignorance
a butcher's knack for watering the meat
using elephants and ropes and pulleys
the backdrop weighs a ton
sewn with rubies and bottle caps
glittering like a nickel tent show
temple dancers from the East Side
undulating in the freakish frequencies
fabulous harems filled with amputees
living roles cut from the script
by bearded sages and the insane
a desperado's desert motel vacation follows
red neon buzzes and crackles
in the warm coyote howl night
outside the nicely appointed padded cell
it's like the first time every time with you
she gasped like sundown cicadas
the less satisfaction you have
the less you are able to tolerate it in others
she continued en route to Devil knows where
I don't know how many ways
that can be taken I replied whimsically
(to be continued)
From "Engine of Didactic Beauty" available on Amazon
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Copyright © Walter Alter | Year Posted 2017
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