1.
Thousand folds 
of napkin, then 
tears itself apart.

Sniffles whispers
blunders! plunders?
gotta wonder --

Suddenly Parker shows up
from down the block. 

Not blunders? curses? 
beauty is damned
beauty is clam
beauty is relative. 

Only reason 
get drunk like that
is to rake a haul 

and make a fall,
seize it
for its love and death.

It's not one dead pie  
it's a thousand dead pie

cup runneth over
up to my neck -- 

Shakespeare rakes 
the house music 
for sarcasm 

and tippy Camus la rue 
attacks 
attacks -- 

revise revise
exoticism, 
illness of lies --

& yet 
cupid Poe crow 
vies 
cries: arise.

And pull that ring 
from pantywaist, thing.

2, 
Three card 
mounty 

third eyes --
emergency supplies --
that phoenix dies —-
to obtain. 

3, 
Drums beat 
slow slow 
methodical
row row row 

bang on. 
Skiddish graveolent reversals 
folly and tip 

the heart would rip
lose my grip.

4,
Wings over
rushing gushing 
obeast abyss 
make pall 
my floating island 
heart.

That scribbles into screams 
"doing better now --
much better now —- “
Or so it seems

promises 
promises
delinquents have demons.

Gas lights got me 
just one look 

whips round neck 
at every deck.

Mauls for beauty 
insists it's a duty
apophatic 
negation -- 

Numbers banked against 
in spasms 
and spanned

fed the drip --
struggled and slipped.

And that 
made all the difference.

5,
Sun where dizzies 
in margins 

absurd is god 
without sin 

absurd is sin 
without god 

prod and squab 
and swab and daub

carnation
fetches cruces --

a thousand cuts 
by hour, by yard.

Passions
force per units

what spurns 
and yearns
makes radiant heat

yellow and red
and blue 
makes color of fire.

Makes me into 
a crazy liar. 

6,
Sanctimony is hard 
to trust. 

Lit up like news
bound for rent
where life unpents —

virulent shocks
the brutal 
and the futile --

Stuck in hide 
for what dips in blood

runs heart through
had no name

but magnitude 
Makes it feel
 
like innocence 
and shame.

7. 
Tests for quests 
holy hotbed 

skyway bridge 
to The End. 

The End
a sign -- 
for cineastes 

to know 
when to talk again.