Eponymous Trap




Gorillas in the mistaken
identity politics of dancing.  


Are you listening?
It’s me lucky charms


are unlucky three-footed
bunnies in the Maniac


Mansion full of Betamax
testaments, which may be


incriminating should
the world fail to fall


on me.  It’s up the air
like a chemtrail mix


of OK cola & pop
rock that blesses the rains


down in it.  I was feeling
some feelings


& that’s unusual because
I am the ghost in you


& your dance
floor fought for.  A silly


trick, it cuts the roof
of your


mouth, tears
the roof off of the killing


moon & its ringfinger,
too.  Three


decades of reckoning
& all we’ve got


to show for it is this
unicorn stranded


in a parking
lot, hooves hot atop coals


brought from the hardware
store to charge


Yan-gant-y-tan’s dread
lamp.  Come away with me


before it gets to be
2007 & the moon & the stars


& the sun all become
mumble rap.

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