as clingy expectations collect under the skin
like subcutaneous veils of mucus.
our sweet brains, spun from the sneeze
of a miserable and careless architect,
melt in the sticky rays of an inflamed sun.
drown, modern fortune!
in a tide of milk and honey,
in a tide lactose and sucrose;
those isolated molecules,
that refined crystal,
of a manufactured cupcake revolution,
fought by robots
and plantation owners.
diabetes is a most modern of curses;
a novel take on torture, on scaphism.
forgive
the melting plastic
surgery hand
that directs a wobbling incision
that directs, like a morbid magician,
the amputated foot to fall through the air,
weightless, for a moment; a lone chunk.
witness a knife entering a puff of pastry
glare at a king's wealthy rictus
rhyme the screaming rift of quaking birds
and sense the nausea of incoming insect wings
