PLAN COMMISSION

It's not enough

to just

believe it—brick

by

brick by

brick—you have 

to 

have—an argument

built

and bought ahead 

of time,

in order

to get it eventually

sold, and then 

maybe—finally

 

paid-for.

LAST WORDS OF APOLLO

But!—It just couldn't be 

science

that's hauling 

this ponderous,

chary and 

frosty octagonal thing

gradually—above 

the whole grateful 

sighing ménage 

of orange trees and old castles

that happened to spring 

from the chunky autumnal 

region of rock 

that you survey below—come

on!—think

hard!—everybody

at some point 

or other—has felt that there's 

something

that's far, far too heavy

for physics 

to lift—let alone carry!

HAS HORSE'S EARS

Careful!—there,

reticent 

Monday complexion—look-

out for loose heavenly

reams of leaves 

falling—not exactly

your way, but slightly 

right

at you—

at ten

o'clock, or maybe 

then—sharp 

in the morning—up 

ahead in the cheek-  

stinging wistful 

sweet wind of November—with all 

its 

might whisper-

ing—

What the hell?

what 

the hell? 

what the 

hell

what? 

the hell

are 

you?, sighing

down 

there—still

doing?

not-

laughing—

OPERA PLOT

A soprano 

and chorus's back-

and-forth chattering—implicitly 

concerns the stately 

young

breadwinner tenor—as he hammers

such rich! 

and rhythmically-complex strains 

of butter—onto 

scores of morning

toast with his radio going.

BOREAL

Salient variety
of whetted

tangy leaves—
originality! forever

is your
noiseless

falling—
fate.

THE POINT IS THAT YOU PROBABLY DON'T

ever notice?—
how
repeatedly

we cope

with all these
illimitable

and pains-
takingly beautiful

solid closed doors—

simply
by
mindlessly

lifting their latches?

LOGISTICAL NIGHTMARE

Oh my 

heaven, never! was there 

such—an awfully

adroit bunch

of brainless mumbling 

zombies trolling-

deftly down our 

duskbrown avenues!—unhobbled 

and numb 

to inefficient   

gobs of

cataclysmic weather—and so-

forever!-

damned-

determined 

to fill—their gaping bottomless

quotas 

prior to curfew—