time sharing

a red wingèd shoe
sporting popsicle sticks
bugs lick cusps & ascenders
the code of trees
stiff pretend convergences
three steps to the right
a scatter of branches

the shavings of tonight
curls in the grid
on her head
insufficient grounds to believe
she had exhausted
all performative avenues
to end up at this authentic abortion

a glass-coated rotor ought to
snap the hawser
showlace caught on shifters
ratios between the plates
engines cut
the grease from excess food production
easing the limbless obelisk

machined into position
the bearing principle
was built into the hillside
scaffold of poles
pastiche on a mast-in-air
eternal as fire-water
& older than carbon

carrying piano wire to a 4-am appointment
dinner was a liability
disbelief in parasitism
by law, fit for human consumption
built like a vending machine, dispensing
gold from the bowels
wristwatch, fillings

my own goal is toxin
homeless & delivered weekly to your door
the joy was truly meant
to coincide with custody
under the gas to reach peak maturation
pass into future generations
once outré and swollen with human interests

that baroque image
eyemouths and orisons
here to be heard, to see, and to seem
speak of vanishing
into broken focus, use
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