complicit

iliicit

reticent

abundant

flame retardant

incontinent

marginal

decreed

self serving

subservient

denial

rejection

retention

injection

infection

inflection

insidious acclimations of endowed virtue

like the first summer breeze

or the last week winter snow

avalanches of devotion

and fair weather frenzies

of donning masks from the sacrificial after glow

rebirth

girth

deified

refried

torn asunder

rotting

clotting

steady mocking

of flying in heady jeweled skies

long lasting

fasting

reacting to devout cynicism

regurgitate

seperation of nurse and skate

alleviate the thresher

poisoned wells

bottled trauma

seize and resist

tease and assist

bound by leather trappings

spanked and left gently moaning

this digression

of expression

a recession

all gone

sold at a loss

trained debutantes

dismissal is early for shopping

chocolate braids

caustically unafraid

the dough rises in spite of the drama

he stood on the second to top rung of the corporate bladder, blade in hand, grin askew on his bespectacled face, bemoaning the state of undress he found his mother in as she walked the aisles of the store, searching for a last glimmer of soap, the police, riot gear and tear gas canisters at the ready, stood single file, blood trust in their fried eyes, innocence would be tossed, truth just us and the angolian weigh, misheard denouncements and rectangular designs, the language felt heavy on his auspicious tongue, like the feel of a freighter full of condiments on life’s angular byways

he cried once for the child hood he wore to cover his tear licked eyes

a second for the lack of self control

a third for the moon landing, faked in his basement by a team of sweaty indigenous peoples in hides and intricate head dress

skimming through the news with one eye in the time and the other blindly following fallow earnest kaleidoscope visions of melted vinyl and aluminum desire

like a blowfish

a puffer

a puffin

the flight of the penguin

head buried in the sandwich aisle

he was indivisible

with liberty and mustard for all

a shining deacon of nope

encrusted in marbles of the finest ilk

bathing in strawberry fondant as the mariachi band played a loose reimagining of somewhere over the rainbow

technicolor daydreams devoids of reds and green

balsamic shades of vinegar delight

he was she and she was him

bitten bitterly only if the light refracted off of a solo spider web

gossamer design

designated hellscapes of besotted cake bakers and the duly deputized agents of disorder

he was asleep in a waking state of angry enchantment

and that was when he realized

origami is magic and sin is unfolding the swan

removing the core belief of isometric longing

he wondered if he was making sense but shrugged it off as the worries of a simpler thyme

seasoning the broth of depression with the ignoble pursuit of trivial reknown

he was someone

multiplied

and that would have to be enough

or was it

perhaps

it all seemed inexplicable