Melodrama

Conditioning sentience,
blather of the wicked,
visceral drivel,
obfuscating clarity,...

Have you ever felt the felt of a felt hat,
It's a black felt hat I felt,
when I felt the felt...

I smile and
listen carefully
to everything she says
every story
word by word...

Poem in contest,
Poem in contestment,
Poem in Con test,
Poem in CONTEST Meant,
...

Propositioning chance,
margins of risk,
tolerating the incremental,
siphoning spending...

Admonishing the misunderstandings,
a blood oath of auspicious regards,
a tactic of dealing...

Obtundation of fermenting iodization,
isotopes in free fall,
stereophonic supersonics,...

at dusk
the day announces
it’s last glimmer of light
then darkness falls
for...

people change their mind
they get dressed
they look in the mirror
they don’t like...

Novice attainment,
I am the yearning,
dreams bigger than God,
none have nutriment,...

her belly has wrinkles
she worries I notice that
she has something like a ditch
across...

it’s the day after yesterday and you might give a damn
after a mocha and a nap.
mirrors...

there are days I wish
I were not here, I wish
I were somewhere
far away from here...

graceful is not how my knits wit.
not how my bees hive.
my thumbtacks lack thumbs....

you cannot master what has taken you decades to hallucinate.
but you can butter toast. you...

let me borrow your eyes.
allow me to palm your reckless orbs
as gently as tenderness...

how do i say this?
another curve for my flat plane
masquerading as a straight line
as...