If you can film it, it’s not real, just so you know.
—Carrie Fischer
livid mousse
entrapped
but thru the
looking glass,
you see
/ not
tooth to
winnow
all but
the hoop
iest loop
iest min
alas, it lands
but / ouch! /
a smidge to
the south
and beyond
the pond
erosa and its
yet not pet
itants / who
were only
just about
to send their
annual school
of papooses off
to Ponderosa
Kindergarten /
because papa
ooses are
sign if I can’t,
amid the roiling
boom kaboom
that sent his
whizzbang bowl
ing ball a-whistle /
he sees it whiz
right thru the soon
burnt forest only
to land / alas!
just south and
past the pond
erosa / never
the less sending
its scurried
swath of
habitants
and their
swiftly
scooped
papooses fran
tically into
the now burnt
forest / but
with purse
upon the
concrete
sphere / it’s
been ass
essed that
justice is
essed that
justice is
only just
but thru the
looking glass,
you see
/ not
tonight to
ward off
all the
schools —
in bluest
ward off
all the
schools —
in bluest
tooth to
winnow
all but
the hoop
iest loop
iest min
now the
house :
the zaf
the zaf
tigest
whaliest
goof of
goof of
the house /
a sub
species
species
all of its
self / it feigns
pains to plan
the plan
that’ll — men
acing — soon
be panned /
because only
the pomp
ous know
because only
the pomp
ous know
the ult
imate traj
ectory of
the snap
of the pan
imate traj
ectory of
the snap
of the pan
orama that
is shot /
but oof! /
is shot /
but oof! /
alas, it lands
but / ouch! /
a smidge to
the south
and beyond
the pond
erosa and its
yet not pet
rified inhab
itants / who
were only
just about
to send their
annual school
of papooses off
to Ponderosa
Kindergarten /
because papa
ooses are
sign if I can’t,
too, you either
see or do not
see / but soon
instead its den
izens are frantic,
fanning poose
less flames for
life (as zip!
see / but soon
instead its den
izens are frantic,
fanning poose
less flames for
life (as zip!
they make like
vacuees and flee!) —
vacuees and flee!) —
resembling most
the dangling fat
flat-screen tee
the dangling fat
flat-screen tee
vees each once
decreed a home
— and I do mean
verily! mean
while the floofdecreed a home
— and I do mean
verily! mean
amid the roiling
boom kaboom
that sent his
whizzbang bowl
ing ball a-whistle /
he sees it whiz
right thru the soon
burnt forest only
to land / alas!
just south and
past the pond
erosa / never
the less sending
its scurried
swath of
habitants
and their
swiftly
scooped
papooses fran
tically into
the now burnt
forest / but
at the house
of the fanged
and grim
aced floop,
said ploop —
of the fanged
and grim
aced floop,
said ploop —
with purse
less lipless
lips reminiscent
of poop ... /
lips reminiscent
of poop ... /
... removes
its ghostish
eye of mottled
head from scope —
its ghostish
eye of mottled
head from scope —
looks yonder
to the other
livid side of
the livelong
room — to
wards its conic
wards its conic
onlookers —
who’ve all but
not yet un-lived
who’ve all but
not yet un-lived
in this expanse-
expense- ive
expense- ive
room each
once called
living / they
once called
living / they
tick-guffaw
like purloined
hearth-ridden
seahorses soon
enflamed : a life
less opera once a
less opera once a
wash in well-ton