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moon musings
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moon musings moons : a grape on wedgewood : frozen lettuce : a thumb print on carbon paper : a glass of gin in an all star cast : a pimple on ms. cynthia harpers bum : a meringue pie : a turtle plopped on mud : a moth chewing on my blankets : a cashew before its eaten : a flashlight in gods fist making his rounds for the night : a tap spraying frost over our heads : a blimp of dough : a bagel from elis deli : an alka seltzer tablet fizzing : a butter tart full of raisins for whatever reasons : a clam cracked open )this is a pearl that was( : a battery post powdered with acid : a wad of double bubble gum : a nickel melting with cold : an Amazons breast : an Amazons nipple playing me for a sucker & me just trying to keep abreast of current affairs : a wholewheat muffin & good for you : a western buckle on gods britches a button too : a slop pail of piss and ashes : a clicker on gods heel you like his moves : a hole acetylened in steel : a leprous forehead : a sugar cookie half eaten by bumsteads daughter : an aspirin : a chickens eye watching us the head chopped off & peeking thru 20 / By Word of Mouth The Poetry of Dennis Cooley / 21 : a lid off a campbells soup tin : a tumour in gods brain : a wornout balloon its skin sloppy : a used bladder : a fingernail pared off of gods forefinger : a scab picking it off his foot : a vacuum hose sucking dandruff & skin sloughings off the earth : a one-way disk badly rusted in the field : a sheeps eyeball seen from the back where the fat & veins are : a wastebasket earth puts its garbage in : a gland secreting secret juices & brain waves : a netted gem potato : a carbuncle on gods neck : a car rattling thru the night a model T one headlight burned out & the sky shaking under it : a hub cap hubba hubba ding ding : an eye staring thru the curtain : a dead mouth on a microphone & he cant hear you/ hes not listening : a wrinkle of pus in chicken skin : a belly button where earth broke away from the sky : a sack of knobbled fat Laws of the Starry Heavens : a jelly bean chewing : a snuff box : pineal pinned in the brain of god a frog splayed on the sky : a sucker wedged nudging in mud : flops in a flap pita bread a pocket of light : a phosphorescent watch on gods wrist : a gurgle gargle in his mouth : a wart on an angels neck : a tear on the face of night : a vowel from some tuba or saxophone blown : got her eye on me : a kid with soap bubbles [44.197.113.64] Project MUSE (2024-03-19 11:16 GMT) 22 / By Word of Mouth : frisbee on fast film rivetted on the plate of night : an eye in the head of a lizard : cabbage frozen in the fridge : the sardonic/skeptical eye of a hen thats lost its head : an almond snapped out of its skin : a pill of cod liver oil : a capsule/ampule of bath oil : a red cross sac of blood : an analgesic dropped in coke : a piece of american chicken yellow with fat : a spot in a liver : knocked up with light : pickerel cheek (of local reference) : a spot where a horse stepped off in mud & its frozen : a hunk of hail a jag of ice : a block fallen off the icemans wagon & he shld be on/ the wagon : a scab where air has skinned its knees : the foot of a persian cat : a shopping bag woman sagging with starch : a gunny sack full of spuds : a potato (boiled) : a burr snagged on a priests robe : a cup of milk gone sour : the sacred face of a child scarred in the dark mouth agape : a cancerous lung : a balloon face floating : a belly button to other spheres : a fanny a fat ladys fanny flashed in an inner tube (swimming) : a vertebra/knuckle of light : a bug stuck in oil : a pumpkin grinning pork-faced : a pouch of tobacco / a tobacco pouch : a taco full of cheese : a salt lick : a beached whale : a pan of milk black cat lapping : an earlobe packed with fat & hyperbole : a balloon a child moves pulling it after : a magic stone gazes through wallets of space : an eye of a cat open in sleep/death : an astrolabe taking its bearings on earth : a sugared apricot : a ball bearing earth turns on at night : lube in a tube : a...