The hunt
Tally ho, you shout
but you should point for the hounds
they are barking after a tin
anyway they will not catch me
I have left my long boots in the grass
and climb the monkey tree like a man
up here I can push down my thoughts
like the clock heads of porn girls
anyway I can't translate the maggot Braille
that wiggles into speech
all its sense changes with my agitations
I should climb down and let the dogs tear
for I cannot slow enough for pleasure and yet
I see a tortoise walk past with the heavy shell
I must have lost time out on the moors with Emily
when she was being so utterly wrong about everything
oh Emily, you once spoiled my lunch
now you twist around a poll
great lexicon shapes of ass
your breasts are arm stumps
the nipples, fingers
they try to reach out of your chest
we must find your mutilator
but now I am distracted by the choir
dance Emily, dance
but not these moves that we've seen before
they are so melancholic
dance instead like a woman
oh little scribbler, all you raise here is a flour
there are corpses everywhere
Emily, we must approach the bouncer
who stands on all doorsteps
to collect lady fingers and smiles
you think you can discriminate
between his bald heads and attitudes
but this man is the godhead
and has no linear impediment
so perhaps he could teach us to move the wings
of our moth hearts back so we can feel again
for now we must
stick the mouth of a cigarette in our flesh
and bum only for the red ash love that we drive in
at least it will leave us with a print as proof of entry.
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