Elephant, walk on by

elephant, listen for the change follow watchfully behind bury your dead gather sticks walk on by her bowerbird grave

Alibaba’s platoon 40 o thieves

Come! My presidents Go! As kings Bring! Your platoon 40 of thieves Strap! Your riches Well! Upon your albino asses

Alibaba’s cyclics, fire sale

Bring your night-visions for barter Sell your valkyries, rotor by rotor

Alibaba’s 9-volt brother

Remember the brother dismember: Up-ended him Suspended, w other wingèd mice Splayed against your nine-volt algae-green night Who forgot the…

Alibaba’s atonement awaits

Atonement like colorless unpainted stripped sun-bleached dawn like daughter empty wordless awaits

Daughters buried like dirty cicadas

Daughters forced underground like dirty cicadas

Hair-dressers and daughters

We shunt them retarded cicadas Back Down To end their days With dying potatoes With sightless centipedes Hair-dressers and daughters…

Like any poisoned goat

We shall excrete your brood Our haunches down Our knees bowed Our eyes screwed Like any colic mule Like any…

Madrasa-mutton, seared

This madrasa-mutton, seared Swing Sleep Spin On skewers run-through

Raised among pomegranates

We harry hornets to hystericsWe poison scorpions w their own eggsThis generation raised among pomegranates must die

Cicadas n otro sacrifices

Oh, sure, you salted cicadasWe, scorpionsWe, expect a yield We harried hornets to hysterics to a blind hate We poisoned…

Oh, sure, your soldiers salted cicadas

Oh, sure, your soldiers salted cicadas As with our poppies Nonetheless We, scorpions We expect a yield

The man w the moth in his mouth

The colt-leggèd girls

The colt-leggèd girls, never see the dawn

The heifers in curls

The heifers in curls See always the dawn, Bolt-on Spray-on Turnbuckled their pearls

Children that come without blame

The pretty brown-haired blue-eyed debutante in the walker: You could put it down to a skiing accident But it’s August…

Feathers from plenty war bonnets

We watch palsied pickpocket partridges pluck feathers from plenty war bonnets

Hats that hang like crimes confessed

Birds-o-paradise from brownfields stagger on broken heels, wear hats that hang like crimes confessed, like sodden cigarettes, like tin-snipped ailerons,…

The man w the moth at his throat

Like the little girl loved a horse

The woman in the Jim Dandy Bar, w her bloodstain of an eruption, of a fascinator, crisis, of a hat;…

Kerosene tits set to ignite

Them ladies w smiles peeled personal-trainer tight, kerosene tits set to ignite, their husbands a-strafe their bedroom superfund site

Them high-heeled

but the anus still between us, and also with us, father; the rectum pre-speculum the rosebud as yet un-rodded

Them high-heeled little girls

Them high-heeled little girls, sure, sure, their hope-chest hymens come high-five unhinged.

Children, take your places

Watching all the young Turks playing grownup in grownup clothes w grown up cigars & hats

Well-heeled hornets stillborn

All them well-heeled hornets w hummingbird legs and their stillborn eggs

Oh sure, Jerry, just populate Iraq w bankarotta, rabid, ronin …

OEF+OIF | Oh sure, Jerry, just populate Iraq w bankarotta, rabid, ronin …

Side effects might include human rights

Mohammed’s maggots

Meddlers of the new mathMaggot distillersPockets filled with gum-drop gods, marked “Distribute to youth” smile, “Say cheese!” Alchemists of the…

You Hazari, you Herati, atonement awaits

You Hazari, you, Herati, you Kabuli, you Kandahari Open your city gates Acknowledge your sun-dried debt Atonement awaits: Glory to…

As you would any sparrow

Father You should kill me as you would any sparrow Bury me in your garden Daughter

Pulls fire like teeth from the earth

Miners unmoored, swim about their rib cages,Pilot-fish blind,They search for sensible wallsthat whisper: “Yours, the falling, has ended” Weary waitresses…