Fancy Beasts. Alex Lemon
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Название: Fancy Beasts

Автор: Alex Lemon

Издательство: Ingram

Жанр: Зарубежные стихи

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isbn: 9781571318060

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      Of form & content

       In airports that can

      Only be bridged

       By a complex

      Framework of hatreds

       That herald the dark.

      There is something I love

       About the wolves lying

      In wait. I am a friend

       Of the animals.

      here comes the mojo

      The theme of this place is

       Go big & sloppy. So call me

      Back & let’s cuddle. We’ve got to get

       This thing started. Let’s spoon until

      It goes dark. Until our organs

       Are cut out of prone, bathtub-

      Cradled bodies. A jack-in-the-box

       On the toilet. Long for what you

      Always find in your pockets instead

       Of flinching when your shrunken

      Head springs out of the toy box

       Like a sock monkey. Stop, drop

      & roll doesn’t work because you can’t

       Feel your body. The shower spits on.

      Vomit clogs the drain. Oh how it changes

       Everything—this kind of kingliness.

      Let yourself feel it. Let it come

       Down. You are the amphetamine

      & midnight Vegas type

       Of Elvis. Mad eyed & hip shaking—

      Cherry, cherry, spin—gimme

       Gimme that jackpot of believing.

      california hates you

      The golden rat reclines & gnaws on the aloe

       plant with the sky empty of clouds this

      day just like yesterday & the one before it if you

       think I’m going to cum with the curtains

      not open you don’t know me at all my breath taken

       away it is a shame we have to say good-bye

      every seven years to our old flesh all those jackets

       of flaking skin my closet is filled with them

      the blurry year of sunlight making the last one rough

       as corduroy like bacon like turned & dried out

      garden dirt instead it might be nice if the layers piled

       & grew atop each other so the world’s weight

       might be something shoulderable something to shift

       to the other arm as you whoosh open

      your enormous umbrella when the deluge starts

       purpledark & splatting the sidewalk on down

      beautification campaign

      Liposuction for everyone who can recite

       the Pledge of Allegiance! Lip gloss, Lee

       Press-On Nails arrive weekly in the mail.

       The turkey is always fat free & the cottage

       cheese is nothing but protein. Helicopters

       drop leaflets, but in truth, no one understands

       the food pyramid. & so I’m inconsolable—

       I can’t get rid of these love handles. The woman

       in the radio tells me to eat more hearts

       of palm but I don’t know

       what they look like. Bundles of skin-

       tight tracksuits are thrown on each stoop

       like the morning paper & I think gastric

       bypass is the answer for me. I stay up late

       & cut out coupons for Botox injections,

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