Daffodil Cupcakes For Algernon

sold on the gray market… for a nickel without shame
sewer pipes thud and groan in a moonless irony
as whirlpools of stars arrange the future over eons of wandering
and dying brightly; as even the thimbles of wisdom 
are born without thumbs 
but no one knows
why.

the loose tooth museum of life
is a place 
you
just can’t seem 
to Place.

a byzantine calliope
chirping a dirge over
a screaming rainbow
bringing knees
to their
knees.