Mounted with lexical rivets, pivots
parties of oscillate paucitsthis poem is quickening its pace
adjusting its racewriting bare-back and saddle strapped
and says
fare-thee-well ebullient ellusors
sluiced in floosy cues crimped
crumpers frumpy lumpen in a ramped-up
rumba boomboxof pushed property, apéritifs, parodies, parties of
froto folio philio-hillbilliesand it is groping in the
proxy fraudulence of
edgy arpeggios, fingering itself
like a discordant accordion in a squatting quadrantall volatile and frustrated
like a fun-size yodeler roadie
in a rubber suitall deviant and distorted and crammed with punkspew
spam panoramically rammed with hardcore caveats
like a reluctant carnivalcrawling with prodigality
and it is garnishing its aegis,
collaging its pages, wagingin rended ends, upended
lends, inset withpetite pot-shot plotted naughty spotifiers
in whisky thicket and agon
of egged-on add-onsoh this poem is
dressed for a poppy bonbon
a hey dolly heydaybut for all its spectroscopic gaiety
it’s just a heteoflexible
savoir-faire thee-well of abbatoir avatars
caveat have-notsghostly hostesses, hospice auspices
of fermishte foster fluster muster
plutardsand is just so on a roll
with its frictional flickers
flecks of screaming memesmontaging its ontology
ménaging its philologyof lexical proxemics
like a nymphy simplex-soaked candlylandall asterisktaking
in the cataleptic spasm of techno-flexed flourishes
dissolute and nihilist, asemic, dyssemic and abstemiousexploding like visceral nostalgia
fraught with discarded favors
flavored percepts, surfaces, services
refigured in a
shifting ground of rewound
boundsand is so unfollowing you
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