Bland Man

(this goes without saying)
Mendelssohn flashback
preamble dimmer switch
wafting windrow
strings
hours woods
roll up the swather
this is the end of Genesis

where petals
chariot vested
Greek Gods in chlorophyll
descending paths in history to eclipse
wonders of the whips

in time
abandoned great walls, feats of stone
looming towers
languages
disconnected
discovered lost desired
reconnected

inherited
transitory gold between green and brown
bronze Amish fashion
fascinating
heavy
blue stitch velour
Coco couture

on bleached wicked tears
stung lips of lovers
one to the other,
symbiotic recycled
chaff chafed sway
as a name slipped past (and under)
the falling curtain of the day

* * * * *

analyzed, devised strictly
hubris and haughty, the head
has left the body

too desperate to see
the coming freeze
an end to balmy lotions and cheated days

she sleeps cool
to the touch
in xanthophylls
(waiting for a kiss)
atoning for nothing

head lights
power seats and steroid grocery stores
today, they’ll be in paradise

* * * * *

one shiny dry tear
pregnant
sickly green
wormy with holes

box seat anthocyan drama
(selfish) planet train
wreck

tragedy is man’s doing
(and undoing)
what would an earthquake be?

a scythe is named among Virgos to go even
unto death
that which makes the swing
knows the moon

presiding a flame
on redoubts where men doubtless writhe
glorious ribbons, patches,
pins
genuflect death
calling ghostly families
and swallowing for home

transfixed view of heaven
lit up astro-smiles
in a trail of tiles and solid fuel

semi-private room
divider set sheers
and lots drawn
late between shifts
past visiting hours

tanning bed
timer luminous flux

* * * * *

there are too many trees on TV
and working honey bees to break the spell
of cataracts
and a lover’s smell

a wedding dress by Nike
swans and ice cream cones
standing
brain-frozen and sticky-handed
in the grimy air that is embarrassment
and Lohengren

glow sticks bounce in the night
woven by ecstatic breath
dilated majorette
black lit techno band
spun spectral planchette language

permanent protection tan
flax scent strong Wicca
orange chill Sleepy Hollow dinner parties
and the chase of the gilded nye

* * * * *

the purged orchard falls
vines stare
vacant
the roots withdraw the battlefield
saw across the wall
in cyber malls

where the last child played under street lights
is dead to the .wav
of SimCity

Instant Messenger eulogy—

ersatzman sez:

😦
and then u and then they
and then he goes
and then they and then he
and then she and then im
and then she and then he
and then i go and then she
goes and they all
and he goes and u go and im all
was sed wat sed i sed
wat sed i herd wat sed
u herd wat sed
he sed she sed they sed
i sed wat they sed :-)lol

we will be talking of this meme
this evolution in carotene air polluted fashion blather
narrow skies
(carrier) pigeons, did Carthage fly?

gravid season pain Apgar shaman waits
for the coroner of civilization
to procreate
grist for the mill

low rated
telethons in mythologies
nearshore carapaces
boarding selective societies
exacting a garish charge to see the stars

and the moon will be ten dollars (with photo ID)

she is pale, bland, and sad
sees the grindstone sweep
glial cell dust on mistral winds

and apathy will dismiss it all
like the grasshopper did
ignoring his haul
instead playing all summer
and through the fall
where his dignity slipped
and he ate up the ants that winter
for dinner