Stationary Chaos
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"The nymph of false moonlight"
– Catullus
1.
The waitress older than she seems
The business woman running between cars
The school girl learning to parallel park
The bank teller’s dress
The hypnotic coat of the woman
With an ice scream scoop
In her back pocket
Japanese shoppers in
The Night of the Yellow Thighs
Which of my Lord’s blessings
Would you deny?
2.
Applegate alike in black halter
Backwards LA Kings hat
The sweep of her hair
As she leans forward like a cowgirl
Snatching a handkerchief
With her teeth
Invitation sitting on a wall
Tights worn at the knees
Her will a shadow of
This homunculus desire
One of the deepwater ladies
An A-student acid head
Holding my wrist to
Steady the lighter
Smoke over the madonna
The roof dripping
In the abandoned mall sunlight
The strangeness of which
There is no previous experience
3.
The loathly damsel
So clearly from hell
Dazing
Practicing casting her stony glances
Her gesture’s careless passing
And lack of note
The consumptive who
Consumes the viewer
With all the attributes
Of a beautiful woman
Except beauty
4.
Trees creak
Like opening doors
As I wait to meet you
By the woods
The Fox Chapel park
Filled with nannies and grannies
The rainbow curve
Of the sprinkler
Over very green lawns
Let’s trash utopia!
Put the squirrel
On the barbeque
Till soon, my
Lady Grey
Q:
Can this poem by improved?
A:
No, but it can be made totally incomprehensible.
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