Ear Infection

if your humor fails you kill yourself

because they will tell you why you failed

in far too great crippling detail

enemies of play

goose stepping to a zany polka

entire regiments ready to die

for the Nut in the Nuthouse

in a deep cover psyops mole operation

fucked with my head like candy from a baby

weather permitting we'll visit the ruins

ancestral whorehouses and wretched genes

but they chose him and the billiard balls flew

he was known as the glider pilot artist

painted a series of blue canvasses

with a single line down the center

because the mystery is an airy one

held together by a paper clip chain

though we were unjustifiably scared

out of our muttering wits to look

oh dear I believe I've lost

my transparent all-seeing membrane

it was the limpid dawn of another millennium

and its less than daring innovations

by the Mercantilist Association of Research

did its work upon the landscape

and the picture was anti-rosy

for Seduction Delightenment and Elongation

their devil women had an undulating beauty

and boy they could really dance

having 3 legs and the gaze of the converted

she snipped his cigar and they got smoochy

it was a Robusto and presently the lights came on

in the passive calm of logic he screamed

with the strength of the oft bamboozled

not so passive then

her tongue curled round the back of his teeth

artillery pounded the trenches all night long

she had always been too much for any man

her star sign was Capricornucopia

one of several million methods

for eating the hearts of strangers

Nature having its benefits and liabilities

as welcome as a volcano as usual

we play lotto on her occasional flowerings

flail at doom and leave spoor

and try to make tension beautiful

what other species is there

that apparently actually wants to die

life has a lot of puzzles

on your way to

the bonfire

in the sky

From "Pageant of Naked Mischief" available on Amazon