paul klee, carver of wooden candelabra

in opera there is a cast
(death and light to exchange exuberance)
on the crapper it's just
malthus or walser
depending on the general glut
its wiles and ways of rent say
poetry must reprove this say's law
to a canticle whip our
whippet ship what
notice still has got to pay
the present for pound
whose ezra any have i
any custom in which ignorance
has not some shed its sheet fed
mascaron

the mask itself surmounted
by a giant carved sea scroll,
the renaissance face with strikingly
illustrious facial hair, flanked by large
scallops and framed by two
over-sized facing dolphin grotesques
terminating in acanthus leave garlands
carved from istrian stone with evidence
of an outside weathered patina -
this piece has immense dramatic presence
as a crapper

you can explore toad’s inventory
in our secluded corner of
the world’s end, chelsea
economies and theologies
on the head of a pin

you can explode
into bambara
jo children leaking
jo children leaking
while feasting in the general glut
of the chymera

of the camera
down all these halls

drawings
from the paths of otters


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