Adherence
Tape the wind to your tongue & sing a song
silver as a sumptuous mackerel
in the blemishes of dusk. It is in fact a murmur
decorated with prairies. A crash
of spittle on the tongue results in bells
& upheaval, totality. I like Allen Ginsberg
do you? There should be a magazine
for proportion. People who wear hats
of oxygen to the drugstore are colorful
organs of atmosphere. Everyone attached
o words should be compensated with examples
of gravity. There is a jewel in the brain
of a frog called parable. A feeling
of being averse to a too literal
translation of life led Ferdinand de Saussure
to buy a fishbowl. Language is a pool
of rain fathoms below in the dark
of the ocean. A noise that emits
warm examples of emotion
is called speech. Consciousness
is the cream of Cubism. Birds & pickles
& blobs of blab & duffel bag.
Baudelaire with a hoe. The pure paint
of protrusion. Each sentence filters miles of experience
into a distillate of Hopi, a French anguish
glued to England like a face
Copyright © John Olson 1994
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