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Frequent Flyer Blues

THERE IS NO GOING BACK  was written in her eyes 
like alien scripture in the orb of spaceneedles, 
what I saw looking at her through a mug 
of warm beer with a sudsy film-coating its glass. 
there's no shortage of fuck-jilted, disconsolate lovers 
oozing out from the world's wet woodwork 
with the persistence of vermin fucking mold, 
so let me buy you a drink, flight attendant -- 
something to kill the vitreous humours now 
hijacking bodies all  
around us: 
let's intelligently discuss our 
dysfunctional world of civil aviation 
& fuck in cold 90-proof oceanic depths 
where frigid Amelia Earharts 
disappear into old newsreels & shot glasses, 
 
where JFK jr. rides Moby Dick 
back to wet evolutionary origins 
the first whale tit gagged 
spouting in a white god's mouth -- 
 
& no one cares we're both nude 
skydivers sans parachutes 
about to crash 
 
the-last-wet-dream-party. 

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