The Tangerine Plankton

 

 

was erasing the awful blurb of that smashing bacon grease

no problems erupted, but when there was an urge

to peel the cherry wood from the nibbles of fig newtons

encrusting the podium

 

it passed limits enforced by grapes

extending durations

using a great amount of super nostrils

for the final examination

 

breathing a sigh of toxic fumes

smelling like oil from a heat lamp

with green lard

stenchy breakfast plans

designed to make us all heavy

and lubricated in dry patches

 

something happened to the trunks

they appeared to cower

in front of the shiny periscope

of saturday's pickled bush

 

nevertheless the rumors injected orange juice

into the pan of noodles

with duck gauze

 

healing our elbows with garlic dip

that ballooned into a desktop

that trashed all personal valuables

in exchange for green, dilapidated old farts

that love to hug wheel of fortune

and pander to jerry springer's cue card

 

i feel flummoxed!

i bluntly scooped the moist clump

and offered it to the pearly white tooth decay

promising the mannequins a ray of relief

only in manufactured pudding duck droppings

on a slowly fading sensation

of groovy vinyl fever blisters

 

the basket filled slowly but surely

with the lovely fringe of tinge

in the binge coating

of the port-o-let

 

with sanitary figurines declaring a holy war

and cheese sections at barry manilow's favorite bungalow

with toast made of carpet

and prophecies that only the snuggle bear could wash clean

 

it seemed that soon our necks would lengthen

and produce cellophane candy canes

and determine the sharpness of the spikes

that gradually weaken the urge

to inflict terminal hickies

that we all know piss off the cia

 

...that said...

there be only so much cola in the paint can

only so much air in the bleach

only so much spandex in the unclad set

of proof 1932 disco memorabilia

 

everything becomes clearer when viewed through tissue

 

and finally we can sit confident

that our every move

must be surrendered to the unlikely chance

that our intentions be used for

hotel walls