The Split Shadow
(from: Flashback)
meet the walking dildo
good for stand-up turns
in a world of busy objects
bodies of disinformation nourished
on depleted orgones' clockwisdom
introducing the body sock in person
walking one's bike into
the other's hard-pushed luck
middle of the road? halfway along?
speed inconsistent motion uncertain
corner buffer mirrors foreshorten
closure of possibles unmarked one-way systems
who's breathing our air
rendering it unbreathable unless
we cough up oral foam requisitioned
calling discount doctors mobile
blows in the night
visiting sins of the unwitting father
vapours according to volume
shrieks in cups of
gold syringe made to measure outwards
double-decked non-stop patter energy
siphoned sweat as currency
concerned traders set going rates mechanism
this small talk shrinks
smallness of voice excuses
harmonic fundamentalists squeezing vicarious impartiality claims
less than an octave's
pitch ruptured uneven song
hemmed in a brain without ambidexterity
bel canto breaking glass
mineral music's swagger minced
harmonic content set sun's candle power
didgeridoo dream snore yes
Genghiz Khan's manifold larynx
all sounding through the vocative mask
per thru sonare sound
of the drama fixed
expression of what you look thru
facing the voice opaque
medium voicing the face
ta tou dramatos prosopa spells cast
voice-faced antibodies of knowledge
undernourished face-voiced star turn
out to be each other's reflection
symbiosis of vacuum tube
inserted into rotten wood
to take out residual rogue bugs
extending nuclear reactions to
death of the family
tuning into interference thriving on it
their shadows overshadow ours
porous exhalations their element
high on clear liquid from blisters
scripted utterance tight-fitting smile
reconditioned reflexes drained affect
heart defence stained to the bone
double talk half price
they saw us coming
another cost-effective source of raw energy
valued for our buying
power reliable as dust
in the folds of multi-national dossiers
Page(s) 28-30
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