Postage Stamps
postage stamps explode halfway down the street
so holes in pockets laugh up the sleeves of their coats
aircraft turn back before reaching Alaska
because their propellers are attacked by ribbons of haggard seaweed
& clocks in public squares are developing whooping cough
just as photographers are developing the blueness of holes in snow
just as the army start to recruit conchologists
who are adepts at discovering unexploded shells
for the price of sunlight rises
above the rate of inflation
fishermen fish up tins of shark’s fin soup
the arms of orators are coated with flowers of lead
as they stand at the top of the stairs
down which guttural rivers rush
for furniture makes such horrendous crepuscular sounds
that we cancel our midnight walks
through chiffoniers & coat-hangers & shiny wooden stalks
spectacles
spy great skuas flying out of a carcass of beef
& nocturnal rock pools swaying with the un-nibbled legs
of pallid dancers
kettles
put out their whistling shoots of ghostly airs
a plague of varicose veins sweeps through the shops
that sell artificial legs
so that boiling water can slide out of saucepans as chunks of ice
when Mickey Mouse cradles bite their babies to death
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