Page 6 - Haruspex

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.