center

Can you love zero?     Can you camp in a swing?
            Can you change your ‘state’?    to massive
missile attack drone    saying, take precautions
            extra ones, even uneven          lethal nonlethal netting

Sun’s smiling behind shining swathes 
of pinks, purples, phloxes, and puce 
She’s got some secrets, she does 
Pretty planets pirouette round her 
seeking her inner surprises and silences 

I see in hologram,   in mental disruptions,
decoded into light and vibes,          waves,
       salty seas, open drains.
A tachyonic plague that spirals sideways,
colliding minds into these bionic bodies.

And a smoky ghostlike Face had come to the Dead Boy’s mother Tammy in a dream, and said many incomprehensible things, which Tammy thereby did phone in to the local radio show and soon Tammy was with child.

Whatever the cause or agent that left him in this condition for the crossing
of North Avenue no longer matters, is beneath contempt, not owed
the dignity of a name, though it twists and continues to twist his spine
away from the path he would travel, rolling his head, his gait as he staggers

Anything the dark
says goes:
for instance someplace downcoast (it says)
a risen flamingo stalls, cramps
on the air & drops out of all resplendence.

And look what Calvin spawned: evangelicalism and apocalyptic craziness. The Catholic Church has meant to prepare the people for the Judgment Day but is not trying to hasten Armageddon.

left my family
left my friends
left my house, jeep, and harley
left my kush uni gig & a doctorate degree (in the making)
left my poetry community
   my beloved new orleans

That rain forest isn’t making anybody any money
and we see a quick buck in the clearing of it
 
One banana, two banana, three banana, four
With labor this cheap, we can tally many more

She looked up and down the aisle to see who might have observed this. The older woman interrogated another label. The small dark inverted dome of a ceiling camera watched, but at its angle the bulky jacket should have blocked any view of the theft.