Aught, no. 10 (2003)
Thomas Fink
Perfume Cloaks
glamour lineage. Holidays are vacuuming
a
frantic peace.
The monologue emporium--clogged with
seconds.
Mad waiters
untuning provenance. Are you fit
to
understand refuse
bobbing for reclamation? Claiming seam,
we
only center;
to curve otherwise would be
less
than comfort.
Yet hair rises without a
pre-
approved symmetry.
Whatever soda rises out of
some
unmarked geyser
usually goes standard before moths
can
interrogate that
skeleton you call a syllabus.
My Dear Bank,
we tour the caviar mirage
until it's hacked.
Squamous greenhouse
breathing debt.
Your aggregate
gapes.
Socratic dealership hats
strictly invisible.
Under partition circumstance,
tom-tom furnace.
Arctic fast
involuntary.
Hard-up night
throws me a tarantula
slipcover consolation.
Dented Reprise I
Debts crank on
to flood this cot
as a roof is downed--
to be flies.
And all the ploy
within you dries.
Looking past indenture
and whatever stuns our tray,
shovel the blanket
on which we speed.
Hey, blistered tangerine can,
to slip a blight's bland tango,
please allow me to reproduce myself
in a pan of stealth and haste.
To be an antic phone,
to compete unzoned,
like a boiling loan.
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