The Story of Aglauros, Transform’d into a Statue
Leave your groceries in the sun for several days
so the neighbors can see the bounty
of your labors: lob some off-
brand chocolates over your neighbors’
fence to show them you mean business.
You spy them through the keyhole
touching each other’s faces in a writhing
rat king knot.
The shortest distance between two
princesses is the time it takes
to walk down the street six feet
behind a hunch-backed hierophant
texting who knows who & laughing
to himself like a vacuum in heat.
Don’t go looking for trouble
on the empty streets
because Lucifer always shows up sooner
or later, coughing up clotted blood
but decked out in hazmat yellow.
Your face froze like that
& the rest of you did, too.
Europa’s Rape
There’s much & more to be said
about taking up residence as a garden
hermit. You’ll wait out the storm
in your own private hovel,
roaming the rich man’s property
when he sleeps even as you
tuck his keepsakes into
the secret pockets of your tattered
robes. Your money is useless
now we use bitcoins to buy
bidet futures from the AI & the theme park
mascots have all gone home
leaving their skins flapping
on the Matterhorn like deflated lungs.
The arcades have been empty
since the ‘90s anyway & a family
of chattering apes has moved
into the Big Buck Hunter
at the back of Kid Rock's Big Ass
Honky Tonk Rock N’ Roll Steakhouse;
in this new world the mechanical bull
rides you.
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