scents that make sense new
from fabergé:
egg provides an
exhilarating feel of decorum
encomium for
the man who can't make up his bed
nuude perfect
for parties of one
lapin velvetinager just a hint of garlic
and buttery wolfsbane to ward off
the miasma mother so warned you about
come in.
having a few beers.
yes.
just thinking
about you. in the starkness of the abstract.
kidney function is no function for me.
no. actually,
no one's ever told me anything about their nipples before.
I take that back: my mom once spoke to me about aureola. I thought about it at a baseball game.
that's nothing:
I can remember watching the dating game one day when that host guy, the alien
deformity, asked the couples where's the strangest part of the body your
spouse has hair growing. this one skinny little white
bitch looks straight into the camera and says,
"in the basement, Bob!"
that was during a writers' strike.
draft card straight poker.!
that's where the ideas for the gambler,
only with carl perkins instead of kenny rogers, the sting, originally
slated to star donny osmond and tito jackson as bridge officianados on
a boat cruise to panama, and 2001: A Space Odyssey came from. it's
because the hacks were playing cards directly under a government satellite.
god bless the child what's got a phone.
and uses it to call 1-900 GET WISE
1-900 PP5
1-doodoo
he insisted
on placing his hand on my arm and explaining that beans have a need to
explain everything, and that altho no two beans are exactly alike, they
taste about the same when you eat them or take them as a group. all beans
believe themselves to be unique, he said, his breath stinking of onions
and years of candied caries, but they dont recognize the worthlessness of this
realization, rather reveling and caressing it.
but, he continues, the explanations offered by beans explain more
about the position of the bean than establishing the shape and nature of
the world exposited.
i grab the broadest and finest brushes from the tin. I rise and look at
my mentor, removing his grip from my arm. "make
a connection to the brain with factual painting,"
I say and move off to join the others in line.
sunrise sunset whichever.