The Con of Words

after Canetti

Marched to the city gates

A ban on barricades

Punchlines

bred and raised

Stop here to forget

Spinoza’s run on sentences

Stop to embrace the dog of time

not easily roused‎

Receptive to whistles above

The Best Response

Gave it the old one two

affirmative thump

knock twice for No

The three of us

detourned content

‎as he went down

One steps up on it

as a new continent

wimpered like a dog

Let us assume no assumptions

derivative outlawed

the moon's repetitions

Gaia’s bindweed

against immanence

stowed away at inner core‎

Decision wants

the generous pour

unmeasured glee

To run up alongside

each illegible memoir

surveilling future

For the world’s faceplant

Beeswax plunder

‎Hive fives

To flush away grievance

I don’t need your poem

‎tooting its horn

Some cowboy dialectic

against the non-poetic

theory of poetics

Man from UNCLE

Character acting

said the Methodist

I got to hand it to her

As we travel from apple to orange

betrayed by a kiss

metonymy never tasted so good

Dear Conrad

In the mad-house of tragic mopers

beneath your shadow

Mechanical Turk exchanged

pawns beheaded bishops

No antidote for what feeds on its own

no upside for Brownshirts

no piece of work

no downside for blackcake surrealists

Because rehearsed & scorned

because lower limit chivalry

Charity full stop