MANNEQUIN IN A
DEATH-MASK AND
NOTHING ELSE,
PERFECTLY SMOOTH
DEPILATED,
EXSANGUINATED,
BALL AND SOCKET
DOUBLE JOINTED
SEAMLESS WELDS
ON WELDS ON WELDS,
PAPER WASP
NEST CAVITY
SMALL WORSHIPS
SMALL DEVOTIONS
MONUMENT-BUILDER,
MACHINE-MAKER,
FATHER SON FATHER
WITH THE WEIGHT
OF SIX HUNDRED
SYLACAUGA MARBLE LAMBS
SHOULDERED, BURIED,
CROSS-BEARER,
BANNER-WEARER,
DEAD IN A GRAVE
GOING EIGHTY-FIVE
ON THE FREEWAY,
CROSS-COUNTRY
LONG-DISTANCE
SILENT PHONE CALLS
UNDER WATER,
IF YOU CANNOT
AFFORD AN ATTORNEY
ONE WILL
BE APPOINTED
TO YOU,
SO-CALLED GRAVE-ROBBER,
SO-CALLED SPELL-CASTER,
ABOMINATION UPON
ABOMINATION HORRORS
OF THE FLESH
AND OF THE EYES
SO-CALLED THE FATHER,
SO-CALLED THE SON,
SO-CALLED THE CHURCH,
SO-CALLED THE STEEPLE,
SO-CALLED THE DOOR,
SO-CALLED THE PEOPLE
YOU IN YOUR
PILLARS OF SALT
IN YOUR ABSTRACTIONS
IN YOUR ASHES, GRIEVING,
TEARING TO PIECES
TEARING TO NOTHING
HERE IS YOUR FUNERAL ROOM,
EMPTY,
AS IT ALWAYS WAS
AND ALWAYS IS
AND ALWAYS WILL BE.