that’s the great thing about modern celebrity culture,
you’ll never be as famous as a door, or a tree
in the populist usage of words,
you're antagonising common usage,
you can try as hard as you can
but that monkey face
will neither
show a smile or a sign of anxiety,
you will still not be more luxurious
no more “popular” when oak summoned autumn
and oak leaf fallen a *****’s buttocks in paris tamed.
i mean some nouns will remain in the everyday
use, but some nouns will be fake for a bit
before fading away to endear the river once more
with thought;
but like me, the tree will remain a tree,
a stone a stone,
and the un-lived but loved and the un-loved but lived
will be the secure remnant of grammar
that didn't pay its taxes;
so george washington iii lost his head and asked
if there was vietnam.
believe me, i said the word harpoon more than a politician’s surname,
and it made sense to animate universals and inanimate particulars
to claim at least a revelled in assortment of the least.