This old spell
. from the SHADOW
. STORY the grim noir
this is, was a (poem) ing
. needs be some explaining
DUH
. named after dead uncle
. carriage accident, (expletive)
FUCK, dad’s penchant for violence
. and then, was the Disney Duck
Bully culture, so when MOM
. real power, should be capitalized
asked:
. What happened to your beautiful
clear laugh? needed to self
. VIOLATE
shzDONALDshz, sayz, marlon
used marbles, easier to laugh
. when you aren’t the sacrifice
. for the
. DEEP
. Un ease
now of course, with another empire
garbage man, who says, MY SHIT DON’T
STINK, instead of an actorskooling floral like
GARDENIA, floridawater on altar
. gold bell, honey, champagne-ya
and doing such a good job, bardlike convince
the flies the irresistible, inSTINKual banquet
unthinking BZZZZZZES, the mechanized
. mechanical
. O
. rbits
is freedom, is progress, no instinct
. and the gluttonous larvae
. eaters of dregs
. privileged adapters
are in need of protection, like
. rolling into a ball
. while they kicked
or the humiliation, after the day
of digging out, and rescuing
the ol’timey debris, from junk packed WELL
. they depacted and peed
ON US
. or, how EE, used lower case
mr. Cummings, and even the bullies
. thought balloon men cool
that’s how we did it
. lowered the case of D
took, leadership sometimes
. CHEATED
under implicited dON
didn’t tell people for years
. bank card still the middle
initial is l, not d
. PLAUSIBLE dENIABILITy
apologize, in advance, as an afterthought
. this strange case
won’t be heard right or left
. ’til you see it
O SONS, O DAUGHTERS
. OV EARTH
conclusion: rhyme is implicit
. but no one needs to be
. implicated, dodge
by slip, slip behin –
d.
Juris d. Ahn, a.k.a. Con/Jur/d, was born in upstate New York in a full spectrum suburb no longer possible. Obsessed with communicating the incommunicable, the whoosh of lived experience, his focus is on language and its transcendent discontents. Invisible College published his first collection of poems, The Heaping up of Small Things, in 2006. Currently, he’s working on a new collections and publishing at thegateless.org.