alterations, hand sewn...

‘self portrait legal paper’  EJR ©

hexagonal

stop means go

go means yes

yes means no

no means try

try means please

please means lie

lie means smile

hexagonal

amber yellow

wanted poster

plain clothed tailgate-r

gunner runner

idiot in hooves

pine bluffed

mauled with desire

for direction

my written modernity has become

compartmentalized mythologies

built-in malls

palled onto meridians

I shop my recidivism

every future a farm yoked humanity

along highways, cities and

what time strafes between them

arterially wanting left wading

berms and levees

finding the nipple bars

ramp felt underground resins

power thirsting in passive

and generationally punitive

3D modeled printing

of ecstasies

in weapon plastic ovaries

shadow bibles and fairy tales

are all I have left and

they are very good

at ribbon-ing languages

into cutter paper pen jargon

life boiled down into clever vignettes

faux élan scripted destinies disguised

as repeatable histories, flash carded

into legerdemain animation

slip streamed like it never happened

hyper magnetized clean swiped erased

pigment bone rendered

I remember

hung up on

flat world divinities

the poem

was hexagonal

like me

affixed

the side of the road

a wall tattered

corner falling

Humpty Dumpty

calling, playing

gravity’s song again

EJR ©