by Alan Bernheimer
I’m tired of pretending I’m not
a bitch-ass rock star from Mars
escaping from underneath
the unanswering machine
without philanthropic avenues
and a deep passion for steam
Beauty operators command good money
and tough is putting mildly
the treatment you’re going to get
as authors in eternity
Where the Weeds Are
West Eats Meat
The Ultimate Tiara
But is the unironic vocative even possible today
with cities measured in forgiveness
Music is among the better things
transparent little knobs on our temper
while remembered dreams are reuptaken
by the unconsciousness and forgotten
as it was the Indian manner
to vanish into the landscape
with a minimum of indolence
containers of American atmosphere
shipping westward
Everything I feel is like a magnet
This isn’t the mother of all anything
Last updated December 24, 2022