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The Commedia of Alice wrapped in swaddled Rapture by Jane Aussin Oswald Alden

I

 

Wonderlandia, torn off the submerged lung

of a daydream diary.                   Reoccurs

as she does with silver eyes, weary Alice

during tea time--bullets burning past her

                                     like flowing nations.

Everyday similar tsunamis fund

                                     the lack of 20/20.

Nose to tail--the surge of angry engines

splits the ends of her blonde strands.

    Each one the last witness to maddening hospitality

--utopia never sweats as it talks and withers.

Amnesia blots,

new aspirin machines

vaporize apples and ***

on the other end of spectrum,

                                                     trans-positional labels--

 

Guillotine gargling teapots

       have no patience

         to the bushes of Olympus opiates

                                      bound in yellow barrier tape,

                     five o' clock traffic

               welcomes her back to what we are facing.

 

 

II

 

 

Dreary weather of late fall                       and her beautiful,

              powdered face

 

great mouth of atomic hell,

         when she speaks--80,000 deficiencies boil alive

                                                   --Trinity's teething test

                                                           on the tired bones

                                                   of a story-teller's raspy cards--

 

"None the wiser," she speaks,

                                "during the transition of ships

                   vermin turn into krakens culturing

                               on the surface of a raindrop.

    Heroes, villains, animals frozen together

                 after now eating for four days.

     The transition of one genocide

                                                          to the other,

                the delineation of cat-and-mouse,

   mingle too long

   with the dead

   and its necrophilia."

 

                 Blind Alice wanders off the highway,

leaves her brewed cup of steamy static

on top of the unimportant saucer, sticks pins in her *******

             and enjoys the sound of Cleopatra

             rolling over in reincarnation.

 

 

III

 

      Dear Alice smells

sunbathing, studded tangerines

                      assimilating liquor within the vast,

       empty, glowing nausea that is--

                        the warm germ

 

Oil                                    and                           water

               rippled glass too silly for skulls

              made humid by distant salt water,

 

blood, acid, enzymes,

cheating probability

that runners with drunk kids

have blood between their toes.

                                                      Death to the distillation within

                                                    --the chronic diamond too polished

                                                       in *** to see the roses in her *****

    She curses these wood songs,

             heritage patriots with the pelts of wild lions

             with antlers over their heads,

                                                  faces advertising war paint

                                                applied by gargoyle hands

                    --sad memoirs always drink people

                                                  that use God as a cookie jar.

 

 

IV

 

 

  Gorgeous names

  on graffiti institutions give her a home

                                                         a market

                                                         a nickname

           still                  Alice only accepts Alice.

 

Grace periods where she misses tyranny

                  rise and fall like endorsed breathing.

    Now Alice feels her dress fall off,

                                  extinct years message future occupancy

                                  about what to wear.

New era, this era, past eras plead guilty

in a      clinic museum

             of forcing demons

              down the medical

              throats

of first graders. Court adjourns at 9:01 PM, Saturday

 

             The populus can sleep now,

                          but not her.

                 No one gave her clothes

                 to cover up the drained monochrome.

 

 

V

 

Instead she celebrates her flesh,

                                        the broken glass,

   and quakes and leads off to expose

           others to its potential vital prosperity.

         Instead

                     headlines like bumper cars read

                     about the beheading of weeks,

                     failing rescue missions,

                     and debates on teenage tolerance.

 

Nicotine intoxication points Alice

to over-extended memories--wards of music

sequenced to point out the extinction of marble tigers.

                        Only 550 expected to understand

                         tethered to millions able to survive.

 

  Flood waters look at moral standards, a mean hurricane

                                   that collapses the death toll

     all patented 50 states

     have a dating service

     and huff paint as a way

                              to pray to art.

                                                      Double-canvas faces

                                                      dyed in pixel     hope

                                                       that the media levees hold,

             but volunteer to herd sheep into poppy seed fields.

                                            She refuses to stay,

                    to watch the long night

                    of castration on men with mud-covered ankles.

                                      Television says eunuchs want

                                       to be prodigal's children,

                                       everyone wants to come back home

                                       to mom and dad, safe zones, away

                                       from themselves.

                                                                      It says our ancestors want

                                                                      this for all of us. They worked

                                                                      so hard to tie up the hair

                                                                      out of Aphrodite's face.

 

                                     They treasure the silver eyes of Alice,

                                          but call them blue,

                                                  they issue her high cholesterol

                                          but pump sweet ****** into he stomach,

                                                  they tell her to put down the drill,

                                            so she can finish their orchestra--

 

her lightning

    is

     a

  string

     of

  souls

 

 

 

VI

 

 

     She decides to depart Sunday,

to discover the ordinary beginning,

                        painting WHY? on its delirium.

re-arrangeable viewers become

                      inserted sounds under percussion and piano.

 

       Caging various important charts

                                          undetermined

                              as finished attention.

                                                                    Three movements in flux

open end the people                     vacuuming

                            craftsmanship blocks

                   from                                dogs and zen.

 

                                                 The

                                 suspended letter               is happening in 1951

   drenched in existential white                                            spacing

                                                           the viewer

                        from integrated architecture.

 

Down

the

bell is a structure called

"the quarantined wheelchair."

                               Dead ignorance changes pattern

                               after six movements of the second hand.

Alice speaks, "To you all, know

                                       that this is an un-dramatic situation.

          Everyday windows with the same

           participants have girls drinking

                                                     orange juice, activate fluid,

                    both exist as objects

                    and caught propaganda."

 

                                                                         Six tunnel

                                                                audiences are watching

                                                                drown in the plastic silk

   her                                                       built by the motorized collage

                                                                                                 spider.

 

          Alice, a kinetic mannequin pop star

                        is limp in the glass point.

             Rhythmic flux is objectified war torture

                         censored in fitness magazines

by simple toilet literature.

 

                                        Six tunnels worth of eyes

                                 latch to the *******

                                           as a way to bury **** protesting.

                                  A coat of pepper spray

                                   works in front of the exhibition.

This stage is shaded by moans.

 

 

VII

 

 

      Alice the female, has a door-to-door friend

                                                              over the sea

of the cathedral's ceiling               who died of disemboweled

pulchritude             at the mutilated nuclear other-place.

                     Her friend was a synthesized example

                     of staged catastrophes. Her friend is her, silver-eyed

                                                                                                  Alice.

 

                                 She performs herself and herself

                                 but they are played by polished, scored poets.

 

Everyone of them incorporates the events

                                 of a dancing gunshot. Everything rests

                                                            at an intermission

 

               but after fifty minutes of pondering,

          the lost audience remembers

         her name is Alice.

                   So it comes back on with a shower of sweat

                  and this clear

                                  substance

                                                called

                                                       patience.

       This composing, peering vulnerability

                        psychologically destroys the flux tension

              like analog genocidal dictators.

                                   Ultimately this is dream liquor

 

     commentating war to the war tree

      using trauma and chairs as humor.

 

 

 

VIII

 

 

               Patience on the water level lives translucent

                                            on networks that brand flesh

                                            with displaced identity.

Alice convinces us all that pickled ***

                                                                            takes eight years

                     to ****** and we accuse it

                                         of being fake. Afterwards, her character dies

in confident silence.

 

 

IX

 

 

     Not majestic, but she does cough

                  to mock the earth.

        The seeds of Alice are ripe,

                        harvested early, and now her children come out and dine

        like speaking tongues on gibberish.

                          The room is fat with hair

 

and kindness. Feeble, mundane hands chew on each other,

                                                         feet stand proud.

We even call her Alice or "the beautiful *******

                                             a black cloud feasting

                                             in orange."

                       Everyone feasts on the nectar

                                                         she has, but never the rye

which makes her round. Juice is squeaking and her children laugh

                         as in competition.

 

     It's a distinguishable game as the mixed

                                                                 couple up front

              begin to play whistles as

                                         everyone eats

                   the pride of the silver-eyed Alice's children.

 

 

X

 

                                                 The children's souls

                                                       bow and say

                                           "Thank you for barely growing."

                                                   and dissipate after five minutes.

 

          "Curiouser                                                                         and

           Curiouser"                                                                          they

           say                                                                                      as

           they                                                                                    leave

           this                                                                                      homage.

                  The decimal backbone

                     of each of sweet Alice's

                                   blonde strands

                   divorced by the gust/ of a green light's/ allowance.

 

 

XI Epilogue

 

 

  The day crawls away

                   a vigilant pest

     of the nocturnal project

                   --suns beam down still, like

                  stomachs of grinning felines

                           at Valentine's day.

 

toxic-dyed fingers

                        soldered

to bodies pittering across rainy streets

 

--legionnaires with hearts on stones

                         we are waiting for her orders,

 

     thistled-teeth clench,

                                         but did she

                                          actually

                                          ever come?

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