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Patricia, December 2016
destruction-frenzy sports
her wifely duties
making her eyes pop
at his imagined failures
the sweater girl stages it
negotiates the typing pool
only the disappointed point
to what is actually a love song
falsies and earrings and the playboy
achieve
fingertips for the groom testing sponge
tenor rather than vehicle
and the lady dream-lit her flesh
recorded monthly
a literal elephant sandwich in the sour smog
so she may see herself
a glowering glow the Vulcan bomber
deep in the bell of the machine
pickles arranged on the bridal bed
project a phantom
and the magnifying glass held up to
a gas tank on low pressure is a flounce
cream parting his lurid
shadow falling from the wire
rocks
of rouge and an ounce of gold
with black blasts of his kazoo
he’s frozen before her
gracekelly beaches
and purple
foxy eyes winking and glinting the
Dexion Pavilion stands four-square
dumbstruck
full and unyielding she models
the bikini-girl’s baubled promises
this late in her career
between the bolted metal floors
October-November 2016 (shorter version 2019)
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