\t\t\t\tI could not sleep and so I explained
\nit’s part agony,
\nit’s part hard-on,
\nit’s the dull buzzers from next year,
\nit’s the choking miasma of
\n unconcoctioned aftershocks
\n headfully hustling where
\n dancing girls fear to tick,
\nit’s Ronald Reagan grinning like a
\n dust storm under
\n rented Chevrolets driven on
\n voided alleys and
\n computerized fields,
\nit’s partly the undiscovered farm of
\n roosters and sclerotic twitches hovering in
\n Major League Baseball’s Maginot Line,
\nit’s a semiotic legal proceeding where
\n meaningless jaw-filling acronyms melt in
\n asemic soup,
\nit’s a fistfight outside a secret nightclub in my
\n kitchen where a parade of inconsonance
\n suppurates and licks itself with smears of
\n government smut,
\nit’s a cynical children’s dictionary preaching
\n slavery and concubinery and halitosis and
\n bruise blood and Bukowskian bible verses,
\nit’s the inert swish of empty gravity
\n porously slamming half-read greeting cards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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