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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