Page 8 - Haruspex

Thirty Degrees of Capricorn
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!”.
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 thoughts of the package contained.
IX. Something rotting in an Uber driver’s glove compartment.
X. Boat table lamps set a!ame.
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.