- The Dirty Tunnel
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Am Assured By The Present Hotel Management
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- I am assured by
the present hotel management Hotel Marginal
- That the seaweed
rifle lying upon the coral pillow
- Belongs to that
swan seen last in Voltaire’s rendering pot
- At the lobby’s
crossroads
- Holothuroidea
forms a doily on the piano
- And cholesterol
lines the keys
- Plumbline
that rape
- Is sung every spring in Paris
I am assured
- By a woman’s red algae
arm
- Washing up upon the
Library of Congress steps
- Is an elevator
- Is the prosthetic heart
- Is Chaplin’s
refrigerator
- In the woods
in the woods in the hepatic woods
- Full of cathedral
wheelbarrows
- Which freight jellyfish
tendril candles TNT
- To Westmoreland’s exotic
dancer daughter
- Rosie Bloom
- To excite her rosary of
pink magnetic trout
- Tangled in a slag halo
- Seen last in a screen door
in Kansas The
Star Tribunal
- How like a hyena’s
broach her coffee
- The bottom of each cup to
be liberated
- By a disrobed army with
undulant stingers
- F. americana
- How like an aerosol of
starlings this flag near the washroom
- Her soldiers of frozen
brachia spurt
- Classified under Mirror Admirer
- Where are the handles and
needles
- Where the needless hamlets
The headless omelets
- Child socialite talking to
a grasshopper
- I am assured in the kit
cooked
- In the whalebone
antelope’s headlights
- Criss-crossed by the
aphids of Mesopotamia
- Ptomaine pale
- As the Hittite girl’s
boiled feather telephone
- Its frail blonde railings
- Curling along an
anthracite beach
- Drowned celebrity in the
paté shadows of the Kookaburra
- The primitive’s
microscope kissing the Arctic’s SST
- Another principle
Another private room made of nutmeg
- And I am assured another
Queen Margaret’s milk kiosk
- Chalk hydraulics of
florists in every Haiti-shaped leaf
- Fallen from a
rocking-horse in a maternity hospital
- Timorous starlings asleep
amongst the midsummer’s wheat-diamonds
- Whose blind freedom smokes
a braille cigarette Not
a cucumber
- In a slaughterhouse lined
with snowed-in gendarmes
- Like a box of Cuban
walnuts
- And not at all amusing
Reassembling the hammocks of quinine
- I am assured attached by
the wing muscles to an avalanche
- The hirsute tram engine
inscribed
- OPHÉLIA IN OKLAHOMA
- Where we
instantly recognized What
were hyacinths
- Asleep on balsa
treadmills
- Sphinx-bells
of the first woman
- Inside
the box
- A
rain’s hands
- Inside
a dry envelope
- A
sunlight’s shins
- Coming
for us up the hallway.
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