With a fraction of this
psychedelic-metaphoric
we could light a disco
to the pride of a thousand
queens on a floor-show float.
It’s all just dahling, darling,
spandex and sparkles,
with the glitz of Tiffany
-midnights in a spritz
of cheap, price-blitz cologne.
But you don’t want to go home.
And it’s I, with my over-slept
cheery-face, flashing pearly-
indecent to pre-mocha groans,
‘til you couldn’t skip stones any faster.
It would amuse you, past the
brain-ache – 2 cups in and see
you later – to view this shade
as partial seizure: twice –
without delay;
An everyday-normal –
as seen through one eye –
plucked straight from conveyor
for pre-re-distribution, that
justified once-in-a-day.
With wonder in style
guised by star-stretch-dexterity
at this ability to ply passive
before pollution or passion
or find petals in solid manure.
With the glitter of wish, then
as it shimmers by will
to a broil and a bubble
in milk creamed, especially,
for cats round the table.
They will drown in
their swamp-lands, mining
composite-coals, to feed fires
of scorch-ture that freeze
to the bone.
And that dance-floor will
light up in retrograde-rage as
the kings, bearing garment, to
the tap-clap of age, don crown
and caper to conquer the stage.