Frenetic Tripsters: Version Two

you were the poet now you're the poem indulging in red high-heeled vision games clothes smudged in green and yet prepare parcel someone in the audience utters how participants pause she keeps insinuating that Genghis Khan is more of the same he eats squid boiled in its own ink while seething in anger baseball stadium conclusive in adjacent airport corpse insert a soldier's injury into the swimming pool one body collapses in a bathroom far away time in Venice cuts waves into rivulets horse hospital 20 minutes by bus tourist with new weather engages in boating facilities "It was fun, wasn't it?" he smiles clutching credit card receipts she crawls small to toes quick, stand up, catch the chicken in triangles foul-hating angel mercilessly beats it black and blue earrings dangle listlessly he said: "put your breasts on the table" so I did carefully removing my orange glitter pasties together they jump out a stained-glass window hiccupped barbells on their sapphire breath flow flat as though mist eases hand august arrives in chalk patches on pavement sharkskin suits, alligator shoes and meat jackets allow her sons to catch rock 'n roll diseases symptom: foliage blends closer in cold air diggers thrift vinyls as they exemplify fashionable plates state of turmoil defines green lawn teeth cocaine-addict barbie apologizes to dress cutter creases clip, tongue vanishes on nipple her conversation door suckle scraps of apricot knots suitcase spills with fabric inhabited by twins soiled politicians must appear self-deprecating clusters cling beneath their bicycle frocks two high school girls arrested in random swimming stabbing the bathtub drain swallows circular alphabetics perfect curve balls strike out the poor prolonged exposure to vertebrate recedes to airport collapses urgent as salmon hours carefully folded in islet map he steals the phrase "tightrope over void," looks over his shoulder but no one's noticing so he stuffs it in his left Wellington boot receive sand, legs though so much waiting drain lamp, vague stitches smear on sleeve meatheads cleave shaven cellotape ears rubber sticks clearly mesh cold-cocked love swimmers summarize the distance in surgical scars staged groupies rub against inflammable thighs skate scraping to browse shingles is an easier promise only foot in mouth agrees to put silver spoon up ass contestant collapses on fabric scissors scrape salmon, girl unbuttoning lilacs in lamp the untidy half circle of his world closes noose lasso frenetic tripsters free fall flat on Magellan-skinned carpet roof samples tethered to skull snag on cadaver practice participants complain skin vulnerable to horse alteration


John Solt and Ray Craig