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Out Back of the Restaurant
Contributed by
screwge
on
Thursday, 3rd July 2008 @ 11:30:13 AM in AEST
Topic:
abstract
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No finite stove
Ended at the chimney’s crest;
This was a vestibule
Open and easy, where one might tool
For hours, one like Kris Kringle
Might loiter and mingle.
Overflowing in a challis
Is a cup of smoking malice.
It looks like dry ice,
And confirmed is that effect --
To a tactile vice.
Out back the dumpster,
Is some cavernous carrion
That will laugh with ribs,
That will tarry on,
Yet it will still be used up
After enduring a bludgeon;
For, a cat can no longer afford
To be a curmudgeon.
Around the bend,
Leftover meats like tomatoes
Were julienned --
And strewn about in humidity
As if painted by Dalí
And wilted in the randomnity
That subscribes to no folly.
Even for a decisive Pollyanna,
There is a chill atop the wind;
Even for the man of wanderlust
Who chases blindly each gust.
And the slightest vagabond
Is not even fond
Of his defiant laughter,
Which flits uncomfortably in and out
Of a tremulous rafter.
He takes a long drag on the charred cigarette of winter.
Even having abandoned these lodgings,
There are harder dodgings.
There is a chill in the air
That prickles long-inert hair.
Pity the young and naïve
On such a ruthless eve.
Yes, I see rice paddies and imperturbable peddlers.
There are silver-lined caddies who began as meddlers,
Their iron clubs sticking out at fiddlers.
The irony of their clubs brushing ‘gainst diddlers
Rekindles a swindler.
And some neon lights paroxysmal
Float into a reflection abysmal --
Down into a sewer,
Where a grower
Has retired as a brewer.
A valley ensues a peak…
Sally is stalked by a freak.
There is discomfiture
When anyone attempts to forage
For a home of self-storage --
And finds it occupied
By detrital tide.
The street is dented with potholes
Full of voles
Full of ineluctable pratfalls
Where a rat falls
Albinism still touts it
Once pure.
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screwge
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2008-07-03 11:30:13] (Date/Time posted on
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