CONTAGION (BUDDING HEARTS ON DISTANT BRANCHES)...................


They drove in packs through isolated suburbs, salivating in green phosphorescence, dreaming in rings of heightened blood clots - the serum would be tightly packaged, delivered same-day (despite driving winds and leeches), Christ-on-a-pony express – maybe insect eyes fed weeping alleyways, a “strange thunder under modernist dissection” (you trust them far as a hooker can spit – you try feeding them all bent out on young frothy, hooked up in haze patches with alien sickness…) – I’m gonna tell you how it all started – airborn contagion of course trusted no one – lickety split and there’s your enema…demanding fluid he tapped both arms, prompting via headset “a segregatory measuring cup of highly personalized objections,”;  a “chartreuse commentary on restraintive verbal idealogues”  – nude pullout of shanty-town fuck – boys on the farm milking it for Big Brother – crusted space of snowcats and fog shipments…budding hearts on distant branches…blue movies bursting free of shiny spit……………………………………...........................................................................
REPENT REPENT REPENT REPENT REPENT REPENT REPENT REPENT REPENT REPENT REPENT REPENT REPENT REPENT REPENT REPENT  (Our entrails burst forth in neon splatters, hair dyed, eyelids puffed, jeweled spikes through supplicated wrists, sky beckoning through bullet-proof pains) – the lovers criss-cross limbs and organs to explosive and undying applause.


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