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Constipation

        Constipation Jealousy is not smooth and isn’t green Either, not at all like a garden pea; Rather, like rotten vanilla, obscene, Emetic—palatable as the Dead Sea. Manageable till it conquers the veins, Yet savage and wild, too, it lurks in wait &...

Composed Chaos: Two Sonnets

Composed Chaos on Radio 3 A virus in ensemble with the slink Of lizard made this drivel.  Break it on Your skulls.  Reject it or the sounds will stink. If it were only boring, you could yawn The noise away, but it’s annoying. The virus is like AIDS.  It got its grip...

Incomplete Creation

       Incomplete Creation I made you up, did I, I made up all? Were you the one I loved or were you just What mind and heart created, like a doll To stick long pins of love in, pins of lust, A doll more muscular than voodoo, you? I think I could have made up curled...

Heterosexuality

            Heterosexuality Behind a prison door you hear only Words and singing.  The words and singing I Produce within your earshot are lonely For more than listening.  They want to ply Their way across the whole of you, your skin, Your bones, and in your guts.  I...

Diminuendo, Dementia

[I read a newspaper article about a composer who has written an opera about alzheimer’s dementia.  Among other things the composer learned about dementia is that the musical abilities of the patient do not disappear while so much else in the brain is...