Poem for Richie and Bruce
When the poem said no
I knew what it meant
cause when we kissed
– fire –
so I knocked it unconscious
with my baseball bat
pomegranate pumping in
chest still
accelerating back to stone age
the beast here thoroughly relaxed
in its untranslatability
scattering brain matter
and branding trees
with names so they
– still indifferent to this –
became significant in
other times
losing their ability to grow
in arbitrarily precise
banappling ways
now as it wakes
and looks at me
with sheepish loving eyes
I pierce its tongue
with an icicle
thus sticking it to
the ground where
it shall stay
until it stops being
such a fucking asshole.





