Gene Doty

Extravagant Teeth extravagant teeth render gold jewels impotent earrings billow with the winds of  profit changeling toads revere the mud emblems molded by dissident amphibians of the arch-age hair piled on bone foundations writhes, twisted coils mirroring the fate of the fearful twin buckets of poultry dyed green and set aflame- another nightmare reduced to a commercial image wandering plants seek the streets after midnight, singing hymns and dragging their penitential root-balls Wellington crossed the Delaware, Washington whipped Napoleon, Gilgamesh founded Chicago terrible her eyes beneath a wimple of purple flame what your heart learns never reaches your feet "whaddaya? make this shit up?" -No, it's dictated by an angel with a brittle face and burning breasts

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