Retractable ballpoint poem and prose set
in chrome with gold-plated clips,
handcrafted designer opening lines,
and elegant black lacquer finish.

Jorge Luis Borges
Had a daughter at U.C.
She was Oh! so ******* gorgeous,
But she was way to young for me.

I send my apologies,
I feel so **** terrible
I haven’t replied;
I can’t find your memo -
My desk is all “higglety-piggeldy”
(in jumbled confusion)
And this note is all lies.

Higgledy Piggledy,
Renaissance Tapestries,
Her Majesty’s superspy spared from the hunt.
Feet of three syllables
name the new festschrift:
“Essays in Honor of Anthony Blunt.”

Straight Out of Babylon
At first we babble on
Then leave our languid age
For land, and wage,
To pay our sin tax -
A sure instruction.
In structure, shun not
A knot, a stricture,
Sure and strict.

A attacks B
attack by sea
D: drone attacks
they play taps… and put
tacks on the synapses,
(a basket of asps)
and sign axes.

T: Ask Texas:
Axe taxes

X-Mass: In Xanadu, a flying
Thantos drone decree
(thin drone)
Hamberger,
BeefBerger,
AspBerger
Syndrome:
Syntax
attacks.­

tack.
tic.
ta.

A poem should not mean, but
be an axe to break the frozen sea within us.

A poem should not explain, but
be a brick to break the display window
where our images intermingle with
those of unobtainable things.

A poem should not express, but
be a hammer to break the glass
in front of the axe
reserved for emergencies.