Parasite Seeks Host

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parasite seeks host

now that we're friends can I talk dirty

last night I fucked your wife

this looks like a nice place to stop

the problem with learning truth

is that you must conclude

how could I have been so stupid

words exist somewhere before spoken

excuse me accuse me words

my tracheotomy should be here by now

like the tribe with ears for lips

fortunately my molecules are all

somewhat trained to obey my wishes

the advantages of a rubber face

is that it holds more soup

all the dinner plates had tooth marks

eating the sunrise for breakfast

watching the aurora on TV

why not hold a festival at this very moment

while laying about on cushions

naturally I refused to take orders

and ducked into the post office

to search the posters for a kindly face

and weave my hair into a bird nest

at dawn the ambulance pulled up

and emptied the refrigerator

took the furniture and light bulbs

under a black and silver mountain of cloud

stretching from horizon to horizon

the wind was so fierce

flower blossoms became deadly missiles

the sand storm broke all my bones

they set wrong and the doctor said

we'll have to break them all again

one by one with a hammer and chisel

now that's a real armpit full of bacteria

I'll have to sit still and pose for the sculptor

with the radio turned up really loud

causes and their waiting effects

strangled and dangled at the city gate

yesterday's front page stuck to my shoe

the past is the space around things

memory is right here not distant

and poetry is not written to relieve tension

a man who reads clouds told me

look children he can rhyme

we have so many things to do

the world is such a mess

the sun goes down

the moon comes up

I really must undress

From "Pageant of Naked Mischief" available on Amazon