Theater of Utter Charm Part 5
she left me defenseless again
for reasons that cannot be spoken
but that can be further diagrammed
worthy of forensic dissection
deep into the cauliflower folds
branching like rivers of lightning
all at once one at a time
lighting up the display panel
sizzling the unfused overload relays
I opted straight into her open eyes
you put that Cadillac back in my head right now
I demanded with all the authority
of a goat in the driver's seat
racing across the Grand Maniacal Desert
V-8 engine purring like a leopard
let's pull over and smell the cactus she panted
obligingly I slammed the pedal to the shtetl
and skidded into a bit of oasis
fecund with reed hearts and goof poppies
and prancing pelicans and gandering geese
and a twitching oracle princess
bubbling out of the cleft in the fissure in the crevice
reaching deep down town
to the belching writhing dyspeptic
bowels of the plan-it planet
exile takes many forms the oracle orated
apparently this has conferred
survival benefits to our species on many occasions
when the spark of cruelty
historically ignites the brains of the smart stupid
it's all a satiny silky rayon trick
worked by the Card Shufflers of Fate
cosmic patsies behind the counter
at the Big Coal company store
from seam miners to bathtub oarsmen
context is everything
because we are context derived
ya knuckleheads
and there's no hiding that conclusion
from my assigned sturmgruppenfuhrer
and her army of egomaniacs
whose heartbeat meter can find you a mile away
quelling the inner tattletale is a problem
but one that is worth musing
when the cattle prods come poking
random directed directed random
until you hear the angelic Choir of Light
roaring you over the cataract
to the Land of No Names
just kidding about those extremes ha ha
but the improbabilities are about right
so I don't mind hedging my bets
a little juju a little genuflection
a little candle here a little spilled blood there
just keeping the spectrum ample
and what spectrum is that you say
from one periphery to the other
all of it voyager all of it
a little tempest here a little teapot there
what sea do you sail
northern chinooks southern williwaws
we are orphan deck hands on a miracle ark
so let's just see what all the shouting is about
up topside filling the wrong end of the telescope
with discovery and wonder
something moving fast in the shadows
From "Theater of Utter Charm"
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Copyright © Walter Alter | Year Posted 2017
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