The Nose, the Petals of Zinc, the Goat at the Door


Armoire casts a shadow tho
there is no light in the room;

in a ward with no doorknobs
like a system of ducts

in the body without organs
or synths; they love me;

they love everyone; they love
the poop that runs

like blood beneath the skin
with which their nieces

cursed them, & the dermis
is also made of poop

as is the entire
mortal foil-

wrapped burrito of the mind
in the microwave of

the known universe.  
Where everyone knows

you’re nameless
like a disease waiting

under Antarctican ice
hoping one day to partially

thaw: still lukewarm
in the middle but

toxic at the edges
due to decades of neglect.

A late bloom
of noxious algae. Take

what you can get
to go.

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