amBIGuous NONsense
pretzels of GOLD
floating in the AMBER waves of brain
twisted metal braces
and broken stained glass hearts
birds without wings
fly without pilots
mass without substance
anger without love
end without world
i've got your nose
you have my word
she's got her mother's eyes
shot with a neon PURPLE squirtgun
carbonated water spashed across your polo shirt
water-polo...get it?
not until you've got it
paper clips bent into
abstract shapes resembling
paper clips bent into
abstract shapes
BLACK velvet littered with
flourescent GREEN sandpaper
icy cold are the RED-hot flames
set by the schizophrenic arsonist
that keep the home fires burning
toothbrushes with electric wire bristles
make for stunning smiles
a mouthful of nickels
spit out the interest or eat the profits
lint in the 5th dimension
space dust caught in a cosmic vacuum
hours of counting the days through the years
gazing at the transparent undeveloped negative
photographed by a man
with no mind of his own
spaghetti snakes
shed their gravy-like skin
and candles lit with SILVER flamethrowers
carried by men with no arms
heads and shoulders keep falling on my raindrops
ORANGE eardrops
on the sizzling skillet of doom
bats of tuna
and hands of cheese
kiss the sky's lips
rising from the dead air
melted plastic in the crystal ball
shattered on the ceiling
reflected in the broken mirror
shards cut me like diamonds
and rust on old chrome handlebars
sneezing into the oriental fan
spraying my evil into the temple
of apathetic bliss
like a blizzard in a wind tunnel
lost and found in space
no memory to forget
the rotten apple core on the wet train tracks
unaware of the hungry hippopotamus
who could only dream of comprehending
the bizarre
this ambiguous nonsense
that you're reading.
--t. dematio (1991)