Page 5 - An Inventory:
Detritus of Those Scarified(Sacrificed)
for Liver Divination
An Inventory:
Detritus of Those Scarified(Sacrificed)
for Liver Divination
Inventory:
P. 5
Thirty Degrees of Cancer I. Some junk into the cavity of a single goner. (eyes go no further, eyes go no further.) II. First-year college student, self-diagnosed borderline personality, suffering from constipation III. A blind citizen of a medieval town walks through Times Square shouting “yellow weasel!” until the law tases him under Aladdin’s lamp. IV. A brittle plant: sacrilegious but insufficiently temporal. V. A dollar bill stuck in a dresser drawer VI. Home-made marble & jasper tombstone VII. Body of a drunkard with vape —mango dreamsicle. VIII. A piece of jockstrap which has seen and had ill thought of the package contained. IX. Something rotting in an Uber driver’s glove compartment. X. Boat table lamps set a#re XI. Three deep gnarled nails laid to the bed, burned through by a #re that never went out. (The androgynous gender of this scari#ed vessel was painted in a canteen at Car fax Station whilst we were still at Cambridge.) XII. A mountain of kittens (full of terrible dreams) XIII.A well-placed rose (potentially) XIV.Bones sloped under sofa. XV. Three grown men eyeing each other over the spanking machine. XVI. Spare wheelchairs. They don't always have wheels. XVII. Cold beer and a single sprig of mushrooms. XVIII. A single high-end protein bar, meant for the luxury market. XIX. A red balloon tied to a black-and-white skewer. XX. Two lonely red-haired adults in a decrepit apartment, arms raised. XXI. A working dresser, vacant of cloth, soiled with tatters, but free of dust, in which a duck, decapitated, still remains. XXII. A brilliant diamond ring that pulls your eyes apart and spits out molars that, after a few days, disintegrate completely. XXIII. A velvet suction cup. XXIV. A dirty old out#t from the Haymarket bus terminal where a man has been hosing a skirt with kerosene and then swimming in the New York harbor. XXV. A couple scratching their heads after an eight-hour session of excruciating masturbation. XXVI. An earring from a sea lion's mouth XXVII. A marvelous assemblage of videos and DVDs. XXVIII. A garbage dump with an illuminated poster of Shakira taped to a post. XXIX. A diagram of a centipede. XXX. A broken wooden shoe with an imaginary treasure map within.