A FACT

by Laura Carter

 

 

Timely the cyclist—
the motorcyclist—
in pictures
and middle voice—
an empire
of nirvana’s
ideology critique….

*

Sitting in summer by windows
with the fan on,

in the year 2000
brand new perceptions
are a slow gondola—

relatively idle clause,
just on the other side of this here.

*

He throws an onyx,
turns on the TV
and speaks his first few words—
sublime, oxygen, pin-tucked.

On stage a few friends
nurse stuffed animals—motley as ifs.

A happy verse, or
revolving
doors releasing begonias

into dreams,
as the bombshell is blue,
ordinary,
tight-lipped and narrow-eyed. Beauty!
She cuts him down to shag and mows.

*

He throws a white room
into the dark,

and in hushed tones speaks of commodities.
Elapse of grapevine, revealed.

Nirvana’s new
the second time around where
the rude nude
turns on the windmill….

 

 

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