der Treppenwitz
At times I feel like the I. M. Pei of bullshit
and then the Ai Wei Wei of oily truths
that stucco the Hoover Dam, and then
like a fresh-shorn lamb come winter
in England, picking on cobblestone walls.
At times I feel like nothing at all, like a baby
yet to be pinned in the womb. At times,
I feel like clair de lune. At times I feel
like love bugs snapped in a rorschach, maybe
like magazines stacked in a waiting room
waiting to garble a glare, though then
like a windsock gargling chortling horse hair—
bristling sheen of a Chincoteague, fizzling
slobber seduced from a sleuth of Nair cans, twice
like the crepitant limb of a synchronized
swimmer entwined with a handsy bus bench
west of Peoria, Arizona, clumsily busking
her flutter kicks all the way back to Kanab or
Pie Town or Truth or Consequences.
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Such a wonderful collection of sub-references and allusions makes my postmodernist heart flutter. Also, “like a windsock gargling chortling horse hair” has got to be wonderful simile of the week.
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I love the stacking of all the surrealist images.
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Love the density of this hurricane of a poem.
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This is fantastic – makes my head spin in the best way possible, love the repetition and the allusions
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I guffawed no less than 3 times on the first reading. A juicy tart apple of a poem! (And about your feelings, no less!)
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Bus benches be handsy, this is on on so many levels
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