Licentious Poems

Neurasthenia

My brain has too many

moving parts

I pity the world

when I crunch numbers

A corridor of doors

crazy-glued locks

rock-candy skeleton keys

Statues and images

come to life

All sad stories do 

when darkness falls

A secret bookcase

under the stairs

1.

bright cyclops headlights

phalanx fifty strong

pour off the highway

2. 

late night roving bikes

military exhaust pipes

loud music even

3. 

far canyons echo

their infernal combustion

terrorize the cops

salubrious scapegrace

smarting from slings and arrows 

stinging nettles

when they call themselves

settlers

the natives get it

in the neck

Walter Benjamin

first to observe
and remark

Surrealism

originates in
Roman

Catholicism

Notes in English 

owing to yr obloquy

I ought oblige you into

an oblong objet d'art

yr oath is oakum

you obfuscate in obeisance

to obscurantism 

an obdurate snob

 obnoxious

 objective verse

 a pseudo-oboe in an
obscene side show

an objectionable oaf

assuming airs

an oblique angle

on obsolescence

after A. Rimbaud,

a Surrealist dictionary game

 I invented scored by usage 

from two pages en face
a OBoron

Unified Field Theory

sat in jar 

in a safety deposit box

since 1955,

Einstein's eyeballs

spooky action
at a distance

Dream 

where someone

has moved in with me

I find that the window screen

has been replaced

and I remove it again

Mystery shrouds the new

room mate

Dream 

maybe the same dream

in which a hummingbird

I had pronounced dead

comes back to life

when I soak it in water

Flies around my room

(Later he same day by chance

Facebook revived a photo

I posted  a few years ago
of a dead hummingbird)

the balmy swarmy moon

came and went

leaving the world

a shore with the tide gone out

hey, pretty mama,

the world done gone away

The Case of the

Antique Tiki

 Pagan god

laughed 

a harsh rasp

and collapsed

in a pile of ash

aluminum dust

falling on a high

 intensity beam

of light

Police

Paranoia

Stake out

from a remote location

the narco squad

draws near

That's not the moon

it's just

the Secret Police

moon-lighting

I cover the water front
I'm watching the sea
So the copters and
the cameras
 are watching me



Dragnets  enslave
 the homes of the brave

Termite engineering

graffiti on exposed

foundation

soon to be reburied

in Chinatown dirt

Bones of an old sea-dog

pan out

Washed up in Oakland

Seedy cousins

sediment from

American stratification

human will versus

a highway of commerce

fait accompli

 judgement 

the sea rushes in

The Whales of Egypt

had small

vestigial

limbs