Due To Faulty Connections Feelings Were Not Transmitted to the Emotional Centers

DUE TO FAULTY CONNECTIONS FEELINGS WERE
NOT TRANSMITTED TO THE EMOTIONAL CENTERS


Buses with basements
rent over-night rooms,
but the tenants must be out
ten minutes after sunrise,
so the buses
can begin to obey their schedules
and rest stops
throughout the city.

This efficiency is called giving order
to the catastrophe
and the tableaux of debris
throughout the city.

The corner cathedral sells bouquet of dimples
cut from chins of saints
wrapped in green wax paper
to the passer-bys
who want to forget the ugliness
of their shoe strings
and their daily seventy seven sins.

Grandmothers eat refried beans off driftwood
from Mexican shores and read in tabloids
how their granddaughters
slaughtered men
who had eyes that looked like deep water,
and eyelashes like sea weed,
found out these men were merman
so they were stabbed with a butcher knife
once again.

Night will bring hula girls on neons who
shake red skirts of logic and excite
syllogistic reasoning in men
who push grocery carts
filled with cellos and wedding rings
towards battery aureoles twisting
on brass poles in loud noise bars.


Duane Locke

Posted over on The Hold