my mule

would step on its own
tongue shooshoo
badgergourdhelmet
if you
ride a mule tongue
to stubborn county
picture jasper in a diana
houndstooth tub
and in the hardship
that is the blankness
of black empty antlers of stars
let this smooth arid pebble
be a map of the cosmic drama
and this little annoying bump
you try to scratch off with your
fingernail's mule tongue
be-would set up on its own
a still in the desert

wander there in an alchemy
both full and bereft of meaning

a drunkeness in
the overlapping stirries
and nothing moves
the tongue hunkers down
right in the error
which is the center
of the universe
my mule tool


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