Flat nose whistle
goes up ahead.
Up ahead
on the El Greco
grunt-
God creates man
and then animals.
Bilge!
God creates animals
and then man.
Jackaroo
in the slew.
-let its tinnitustic needles
sew back shadow.

She holds a baby
made of towels
up ahead.
Up ahead
on the
baleen
bronchial-
Jacob's offspring
in Egypt totalled
seventy.
Hogwash!
Jacob's offspring
in Egypt totalled
seventy five.
Contritio/Attritio.
-let the leashes strain
sustain those
jaw-joints surging.

Aw-shucks.
Aw-Gee.
The Porter sticks
with the
Porter's dreams.
(Shoot to a wing-tip pawing the ground.)
I wouldn't trust him not to dance
a drachma across his knuckles.

Twenty-seven inches from heel to heel-
Lardie, Lardie, Lardie.
-while every skin is raised.
While every eye was grazed.
Thrushy-tongue
lolling
up ahead.
Up ahead
on the
sarcomere
stump-
The women
came to the tomb
at dawn.
Booty chatter!
The women came
when the sun
had risen.
Laps/Relapse.
-let this throat's
Colombian Necktie-
choke that Franglais.

Flat nose whistle
goes up ahead.
Up ahead
on the
Pilates punk.
The righteous
shall flourish
like a palm tree.
GTFO!
The righteous
shall perish
and no man
layeth it to heart.
I swerved
away
into the dark.
Forty-five inches
from heel to heel...
Forty-five inches
from heel to heel...
Forty-five inches
from heel to heel...
There
but for
the grace
of god
goes
God.