5.

The reasons why I mumble
are numerous
& far from simple

from truck to trickle
bare arms tickle
conjoined manfreckle

we could talk the handshake talk
Harewood muscular under the dome
& pigeon walk home alone

I know that I'm shouting
or would have been shouting
before we got re-routed

but please lean forward
& look toward
the world's reward

radio free Olympus for instance
Triumph of the Will-itis
sclerotic eighty-sixers

with wooly Bouvier fists
grasping cans of Lucky
clip-boards gently plucking

slushies like cold melon
roughly sensuous
like freezer burn hung

from a ceiling rug
drug against a goat's beard
like anything when it stops.