the police are awake all night
afraid they're being poisoned
by all the poison they're handling

and the poor ARE communicable
they have a communicable disease
the disease of no money

and they're hoping you catch it,
you Tight Wadded Bastards,
you Blameless Fascists

and the murdered are sleep and dreams
they've been boiled into clouds
become our rain n food n drink

and the children are chloroformed by culture n nurture
they sleep on their backs, mouths open,
     ears open, anus's n noses, too
that's how the ghosts get in

why everyone is haunted n possessed until further notice
the cops n robbers n judges n juries, banks n schools
    n jails
maybe, most of all, one of em

n forever n ever, and then — never n nevermore
when never n nevermore --
takes its turn on the “Pick An Answer” Carousel

Delaware is the Dentist State, 1779,
where they keep all the Dead President's Teeth, since 1801

and New York City is the dicey water city,
historically, 1813

Memphis, it's sister city, the city of outhouse
seats, custom shaved, since 1823

and Athens, Georgia is the Rome of America,
self declared circa 1834

as is Jesus Christ It's Nevada, Nevada which is
self explanatory, 1869

but, Minnesota, only Minnesota is the French
Cynicism State, since 1871

ditto Oregon ---the Devils of Unbelief Territory,
now & then, 1864

Ohio River Froze Over, Kentucky, incorporated,
1887

Spilling Blood, Montana, 1888

Democracy For Choctaws, Oklahoma, 1899

God's Agnostics, California, 1900

Eden-Armageddon, Missouri, 1907

Albany ---the Ass End of Boston City

Boston---the Right Circles are as Difficult to
Enter without the Lubricant of Family, Position,
Bearing, Harvard, Training, Money, and
Accomplishment ---as Our Clinched Anuses ---
City of, since 1998

Sagging Balls, Drooping Tits, Hawaii,
​2019 

i come to this here place
a border crossing between this'un
    n that'un
after eatin’ some kinda magik-berry,
the antidote for distant sorrows, so said ---

it is an early morning, self-hating
n fearsome lonesome ---

i tie my boots n i set my watch ---
but i have a bad suspicion ---
i'll have an ache n a kink after the
    magik enters my mouth

which is whut i came here with --- to begin ---
an ache n a kink n a bad suspicion of ever’thing
which is why i took the berry

n now a startled deer is a-runnin’ in my knotted
     up guts
n troops is marching in thar---
    Half mad with rabies — n
all of them a-dancin to a propulsive
    cash mad reggae, h’it figures n i come to this here place
a crossin’ between this-un n that-un

n now i wait fer that-un to come nex,
sez th’ lonely Citizen of Fairy Tale Town
to th' empty echoing welfare apartment
     Goldilocks just now moved on out of

this c’here “x-try” early A. M....

​a-bein’ that- “fire” behind in th’ rent...