I did make a wasp gasp
with my splendiferous doggerel
that not even I sit well
with. & a note came from hell
penned in a tongue alien to me...
only the vile violet violinist
understood such oneiric idiocy...
& said it was emetic
& not truly good nor copacetic.
Even September agrees
such is the golden music
that easily delights the bees
& can make a wasp gasp.
We kill mockingbirds
and quiver at tales
of mice and men
in this brave new world
an awakening occurs
as we ponder why caged birds sing
somehow this book is gay
and the bluest eyes
spy two boys kissing
Nelson found two things wrong
with a naked lunch
as Lolita and George refused
to communicate
Girls lean back everywhere
but I am curious
about internet girls
and dirty cowboys
the leer of the sensualist
is healthy, with or without
emetic qualities
if supreme court justices
are to be believed
No pain, as such, just aching,
spreading down arms, radiating
to neck and jaw and mouth.
The zap of clot busting drugs infused,
driven through the cannulated vein;
morpheus then followed, fast. pale, aesthetic,
anaesthetic with anti-emetic trailing after.
Frenetic rushing and bustling to the unit,
sticky pads dragging chest hair,
monitors glowing green, blue and red,
bleeping, bleeding colour in the
darkness, the neon entrails of technology
gutted, exposed and flickering on my face.
I don’t believe this…
Note: Today is the 11/04/06. One week ago on the 04/04/06 I suffered a heart-
attack - quite out of the blue. I was hospitalised until yesterday when I was
discharged home. I still find it hard to believe.
T.
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