Friday, 23 July 2010

smogtown

oh city of angels
hideous to the tongue
urine-fumed fleur de lis
and vomit baked by sun

neon perpendicular
baking us like clay
music sitting sweetly
like a locust in my ear

my spine curls
my lymph chokes back
poisonous souvenirs
at the grey bus stop

art deco hospital
bibliotech confused
crackpipe vapors
over strawberry sewers

on the twentieth floor
over your cheap smog
i am looking out
over dollar bills.

there is one there
i love so dear

his head is choking
asthmatic wheeze
you give him distillations
of sunset’s best lizards

i will meet you again
bathed in grey: my body
greyer in your blue
smoke; to kiss him there

in poison gas
Hiroshima knows
no blessing Chernobyl
curse los angeles

my love dystopia
visions birth curse

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