The Magus Flower

plastic plates and
she left with a
cork and her thumb
for the Caesars and
the Czars and butter
sticks that stick
out and squirt
chicken Kiev
plastic plates and
rye bread
pink handbags
hold ‘em up handbags
a leak in the tar
all the bawdy plows


trip and tick around
forget the longhouse
oh’s and the oh’s and the oh’s and the oh’s
shifts to the sanguine
shifts to the emerald
champagne supports pepper habits
heater beans
and burned amber neck drops
yellow chairs
twitch your twat
pick and dine on L.A.’s McDonald’s duck



wooden box
your ears no space no space
no space no space no space
muted cuticles nails clicking
on plastic plates
splashes on the bark
and a leak in the tar
on talons on snows and
dirty hands and clicking nails
wood grain
pasty peel your veins back
parry favors in your party box
keep your beard in strings and please
punching bowl punch bags
dinner tickets on your sloth
wicks in Arizona welfare carriers
tapping into tar trench coats
beetles scuttle sidewalks



burning beetles bug guts
crystal Vaseline staplers
Shea Stadium promenade decks now at
picket white and bloo blights
where’s your living will
your jail lotions and lip glosses
shredded anthrax Harlem churches
tipple white tipple
tricks and fixes on the fire escape
cake batter


rhymz and miliraty
military
or what
short places
and a leak in the tar
drug activity in the car
in the Denny’s parking lot
blow jobs
trickle gold chains
with little charms
pill box icons and white lights


keep your hands
where we can see them
and the oh’s and the oh’s and the oh’s and the oh’s
oh, and oh
shopping carts with might
when Ames closed
plinko’s where the pink goes
this is where the plin koes
this is where the ok nilps
white grates of grapes
silk yellow jacket sleeves
no access
no space no space no space no space
no space no space no space no space
make
spagehttio’s
magazine cotton balls
gray nets



spelunking for marble teethbrushes
for eye creams
for sugar-free diabetic hard candies
arteries blow up
the purple and greens of blues
white party dresses
paperclips worn as earrings



what’s that you said
no space no space no space
pork-u-pine handmaids rush
to the Giant Eagle triple coupon sale
xuddux is away for now
dietetics got me nowhere but
monis(ivy)stat
you’re what’s with the orange cards
like marriage licensees given away
up your spinal cord


circle left and circle right
this drainage bag is getting full
or half-empty
why not have some bass for dinner
tickle your
tips
tipsy sewn
but excuse me puh-leaze
I like buying my hammers and pants
in the same place



a Chinese large is a medium
a leak in the tar
puddle
pluck your personage
chuck
hundred gribble bill
tuck and tickle my fingernails
clicking
cutting on the bathroom floor


hundreds of dollars worth of crackers
oh oh oh oh oh
rat poison lasagna
both barrels
what’s your trap
bite pattern prisms
mangonie
exterm
exxxxxxxterm
teriyaki walnuts
teriyaki Atlantis



until the evidence pointed to baboon
trip wires
mega lo
lo and lo
oil and joints
finger bones
plasma in your blood
plasma on your screen
clacking nails
deluxe tryptophan
blender ringworm on your upper thigh
teriyaki oak tree
no space no space no space
and tar
in your lungz