AT THE MUSARIUM (2)

[10001-10100]



An aerial Kathleen sweeps the verandah
lazily as dejected Mexicans roam
the Southwest. Indolence aids their distraction.
Assassins & lunatics havoc Corinth.
Abashed & loathsome they forge a stronghold.
Impudent, “impulsive” (in quotes), laughingly
childlike, they paw back, traverse the
prominence. Initiated, they throb,
expand. Boom! A boar pauses northeast of
the fossil remnants, the pyramid crater,
the ladies’ unhappiness, the vigilant
overseer. Twenty-seven sagacious
mechanics kindle leafy births,
tumble by dint of forthcoming &
fervor, unlawful & irritable with zest.


[12401-12500]



Fragmentary Goth-worshiping pranks
grapple an oily foothold near Camden.
Intermittent lobster grab the barrister.
Rapturous physiology? Moi?
The grouse ripens. Antelope
ramble. There are bats.
Alongside the Tiber, from Ravenna
to Siena, aggrieved Spartans
hitch & shove—Gangway!—
till acquiescence intervenes. Overnight
at a booth in a Madras bazaar, daughters-in-law
ply sedition & indecorous agreements darken the
seminary stockade. Kim? A cypress bellows.
Nether Hades flares. Dun rivulets gush,
inducing a wrathful bane of boring duplicate ennui.
Pooh!


[30001 - 30100]



Zeros for your dodecahedron, titty
for your armhole libertarian—centerpiece
of your concupiscent, hotchpotch
epistemology. The tympan & menthol
splatter under the propeller of your
lampshade fortnights. The cytoplasm bit.
The nostalgic lyricist’s pinpoint
leftovers skittle the misk with the
glabrous ore of pinny tintinnabulation
& tch-tch of peach trees just above
the timberline. Now the lubra titillate
bypassing a sirocco caterwaul—
prepayment for the osteopathy.


[33301 - 33400]



Milos Kool, object-oriented,
outclassed, full of face-ache
& firepower, nephew-in-law
of the Net.God, how many penises
& peyote self-portraits postdate
your priapism? What limo
speedway pudendum
mobled your neuropathy
at some posh Punjabi shindig?
I’d’ve protista, Rumpelstitskin,
your stonewall tornadoes
& manifold pallbearer linearity,
too late, for flag-bearer insectivores
to razzle-dazzle the superhighway
between Futtock & Honshu,
interlining their sterile pharmacopeia.


Recently a Pushcart Prize nominee, Peter Grieco's poetry has appeared over the past year in Poetry Revolt, Timber Creek Review, Beatnik Cowboy, Black Robert Journal, Fifteen Project, Confrontation, HazMat, Blue Collar Review, Cause and Effect, Epicenter, Spilzz, Blood Lotus, The Buffalo News, and elsewhere.