Cagey

There once was a man who

swallowed a fly : swallowed all of

Nantucket : he

lived in a shoe : knew to tuck in his many

spiders : had too many swallows

to shoo : he wallowed in

ointments : tried to fly too high. There once

was a man who swallowed his

pride like a smelly old shoe :

a true nuclear fusion, this man

then split in half : begat two Nobodys who

begat Nobody who begat Nobody

who then begat

a dog who swallowed

a god who was anointed a blogger

with a dozen-odd

followers. And Nobody

awoke in a cage of his own making : and 

Nobody grinned from ear to ear : 

he drolled, "If my 

eyes don't deceive, then the
rest of me will."

The gleaming scotch, the door
swung open by footlit

tresses, the endlights
of all the tunnels bored into

him by the nanomites of
bourgeoise morality.

Dressed in stars, she looked
into Nobody's transparent soul

like a lens to see
something else, far away.

Rosabelle relieve
the ghost

of its faraway
mind.