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Overswept by

             the vortex

     of Cuban cigars

            and Czech drama

     in Jeffersonian jargon

the slanguage

      of the masses

   desecrated by

          a TV news anchorwoman

  the economy

               of my brain

        is destroying

             the ozone layer

       as input overload

causes short circuit

                circa 1989

the lay people are confused

the law people are confused

the end of experimentation

         ensures

    the rebirth

      of racism; sexism

the panic of

        castle builders

on overtime

    for $122 an hour

as another stiff

          is starving

 in a one star motel

              drinking cheap beer

         and eating

  Dinty Moore beef stew

with a 19 inch

      black and white TV

             on the blink

and the sun is sinking

      in the West

the variations on Rimbaud

     & the obiter dictums

are stymied by the onslaught

of the sweet poison

                  of Jacquin’s

and Europa asks for a retrial

but the odds have always

            been against me

functioning at half speed

           I wearily tote

    my body along

super highways drawn

            across the American landscape