my old friends
are asleep, sucking on
dreams of national
neurosis and taxi cabs
nostalgic of cobble stoned
streets-
in the club
somebody jokes about
a white bear and
his frozen beach.
we're sitting on jellyfish
dying the seas purple
bruises of the clean sky
bleeding- meeting
pastel umbrellas and
toy flamingos.
and every scientist of
our tribe wants hearty
breasts and pin legs
bending like wet cardboard
on a wire fence-
sticking their beaks
between a culture's stomach
and mother's hair.
this pale sort of dust
stirs in a hallway with
floors seeming to tilt and
sink, no sound but
parts moving and heads
rolling.
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