Sunday, December 13, 2020

Jeffry Michael Jensen

 


Back When Back Was Boss


I ain’t no walrus from way back when

I rein in my temper and count to ten


decorated in rectangles stretching garments

worn season after signify portals go cosmological

all in limbo tinted toward reverie

rolling up the carpet from one plane to another

bludgeoned by sadness as a detour to grand stimulation

Baudelaire went heavy on marbling disappointment

it was a gawdy syntax that outfitted a poetic kiss

crowds take my eardrums out of play

the soft side of gorgeous noses me out of a fragile legacy

tapping shelves where looting is rumored to run

deep into the survey of murmured betrayal

cannibals end up lining shot of philosophical grime

pruning the lazy sailors with blood crashing

I gasp on the air released by protest

skin forms into a towering forest

illimitable abuse becomes a kingdom

pretending concern lifting spaces to the fevered streets

nothing more hungry than complete ruin by adverbs

weeding towers away from the heaven we are subordinate to

affectionate beyond the proportional shadowed haze

limb to limb leaves a distorted imperfection

driving a crumpled search in haste at the end of religious choking

I believe in the search for charcoal silence

a scrape or a shuffle of ragged exploration

a smoky flex of a midday frenzied sun

no one traveled close to the edge of the absurd eternal

without falling into the invincible riddle of tongues


in an unintelligible end, I became a ribald gonzo of accumulating loss

tumbling into all that can be conjured back when back was boss

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