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W. B. Keckler

       - 5 poems -


CEL

enteron
"the computer inside"

darkness      projects
unemployed rage

a little white child
collects plastic "Homies"

"conjugal rights"
said Jason to Medea

"dragon fare"
said Medea to Jason

they dug up a talking head
from the Ancient World

real skeleton's teeth
in a bronze jaw

It laughs
it speaks Greek

when you put
a cartouche in

it says "Fuck!"
and then "Death"

then "Fuck!"



FOR AN ARTIST

Asleep the Cezanne pixels, doubt, "inkier deaths"

ART THANKS DRUGS
     FOR CENTURIES OF SUICIDAL "FAKING"

       *

a song's company

Or, vice versa the mountain

       *

A red-winged blackbird

flashes so fast over its lake reflection

there's nothing to say

       *

he died

       *

a crone washing her sex in a final beam



RANDOM BUT INCREASING APPEARANCES

as eye is to buck fever
(1841)
That's what's called patriotism

       *

stain

or a comic strip created by
an archaic woodsman

with a tail

       *

a bubbler in the I.C.U.
a president
an aboriginal retort

A person turned entirely into buckminsterfullerene

the black crushed glitter, breathtaking

leads us to ask

Can "if" be a god?

Only if we are forgiven can we pray



DURING A BREAK
       AT THE LINGUISTICS CONFERENCE

Good deeds        or hysteria

The Sanskrit attitude towards sex

not listening
the chief attribute of godhead

       *

alrighty then!
an omnipotent virus
infects all workers, military personnel

the Jim Carey infarction

faces from a deathbed can be funny

what are we to do with that?

       *

ridiculous as turf

the sweeping antennae of language

know they are mere coxcomb

but the bug feels immortal!



AND THE STRIKING CREATURE

lives long after decerebration

by which Nature shows her arch sense of humor

A machine that punches back

or one vote per assassin

DARWIN IS FIRED;
RECOMBINANT DNA HIRED
SCHOOLBOARD PROMISES

       *

sorry for your decedent persona

I saw the future
billions and billions of IKEA ghosts

moving through

coathanger theology

       *

Billie Bob Someone has a vision of God

uh oh
it's inflamed again      The Burning

       *

cruising stealth typo




wire sandwich