Least of all

least of all

least of all these foolish qualms in lower registered phantasy
that thumbs the brow with wednesdays soot
theatrical grease paint reality in the guise of a punch &; judy
show

I borrow 13 cents to pay my way into the easy side of cotton
candy
blue &; yellow fluff of long hot nights
blue &; yellow fluff that pace the streets
from lamp post to lamp post
a hermetic groaning under the racous bellowing of a too late
ambulance
following the monotonous path thats encoded in shadow bones

listen to wind frayed sounds banshee howling at tall buildings
chalked with clutter dreams
with the scrawl damnation of the wakened dreamer
listen to the gurgling waters of our hanging gardens strectching down b
way
twitching with shuffling sleep
alchemized into moist splotches of grief
that twist moan in time

listen to the wet coughing in putrid mists
of smokestacks incinerators exhaust pipes
listen to the hissing torpid yawns in morning silence
silence the silence of an orange shattered 6am