Lip Service by Bruce Andrews
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  SHEEN to flaccid charcoal siege machines
                                                                unable to
filthy burning lust compliance through camouflage
cult figurine prism of vacuum gilded zero valor,
    torpid should be look at them in white!
                                  look at them in pink!
treacherous intuition web bobbies in a bag
                                                                withholding headbeast –
                                  pardon your appearance:
medusa gladhanding effigy in the largo optic slaps;
                                  survival of the cutest tuxedoed in
to forget easily interrupted and ignored …
just PMT patio pirates, what you call reflection
                                                                I call constipation;
                                  for years I have been talking
                                  against food
                                  without success:
everything this good makes me sick, change my naming
physiology filigree of grasping ice subjected cleavage
loud which may shift.
    I
pursing konk sooter thinkin’
                                  the artifice of ether to pristine
with counterfeit sign signs pieces
pocketless
for undeveloped heads, vapor facial flammable nothing
but trowel spatter semblance to illumine clicking foretaste,
wide berths for sartorial cheesecake with flu patter sustain,
                                  vista different from decor proper;
    and incipient crescendo signs
                                  squeegee’s numbness, that’s
a masterpiece of understatement – ghosted retreat’s
fascimile complies ahead layette words its ads
as no sapphire can make of your love a seductress
(and that’s no good, bleed for me Ill Wind – pointed up)
                                                                ‘object’
                                  glacierly vestigial bias,
the possible that cannibalizes the real.
    Avowedly anemic impostering
perfect fears to pieces, concussion
                                  consequent engagement ring
wanted to make sure I didn’t lose my zipper –
                                  be careful, dose bag –
                                                                putative bad
                                                                larceny peeps
                                  incredulous frightened little heart
                                  damnably pluperfect levy
demon spike heel pierced skull in slo-mo vote,
                                  or how lies get loaned
                                  equal to Accidents, insidious foreground
envy as malice litigation.
    So prim and attracted by now
tormented pieces based on failure to understand
coupled appetite got fast throng to prompt vulnerably headlined
sober spoils gloat.
    Mocking intoxicates nightingale in arrest
                                  (I have heard men say)
(please you command) hovering vampires self-delighting
verbal such as brood agreement – I like my issues flat,
that incredible fear of speaking before a group:
    hormonal fluff deposits, desire = talent
                                  formica fury extort
at first sight renounce thought harm largesse –
                                  vinyl prone, the worst is eager
self-consuming has vs. does toy shout
                                  to consent to be decorated
                                  pliant untenable Nothing, fleshholders’
chinoiserie of the glands hemorrhaging on illusion prizes.
    Instance uneasy
hard choice, emasculating starts in light –
                                  self-assertion lost a shrink-wrap
                                  where I could have used some intelligence
furtive underestimated
rube in glassine rawest tell my parent donor
                                  coquette limps to learn fear
                                  squirting imperfecting blazes –
why be more? – both senses affect normal
                                  lacking relation alone, amazing
to find excess worm this doted.
    Now, idols & dolls mimetic
mush costume got argument arrest: Hat was vagina,
put your face in curlers, undersussed delay bite
subterfuge on a stroked preening vellum
                                  confines roll, wardrobe caesura
simulated plumbing multi dorsal consent.
    Cuz wary eyes earnings
baldies all look alike?: infinitize to infantilize –
                                  too much makeup is our national bird –
                                  jewels burnt luxury engineering opaqued
gift pubic statuary pronunciation, enticed
                                  solder humming
                                                                sheen act;
    men are heroic while shooting restored semen? –
lurid hostile severe
                                  slandering literate membrane
pendulum; babies (latent commodities) cry to make compost,
                                                                my brain ill proof
                                                                thoughtlessly veiled
the fondling of bent.
    I didn’t think,
you’d get so drab abrasion – filigree fascinating
impurities surround plastic, major point
bandaged memento groomer vault
                                                                whisper within
axiomatic fault poised half-hearted hung gray chest elites,
abatement vocabulary suppressed contrary anchorite stroking
                                  even fuller in emotional discoloring
discovery,
    hole (with an H) life
is a domestication of these proposals
                                  since superiority its due
                                  fear multiplies desire
garnisher and garnishee lacquer chokes sap machine
of suggestion, art apprenticed quivers to me,
                                  that’s very
                                  very thrilling hennaed IQ
                                                                cyuuuute
                                                                admiring as wage
stripped mute exploded mute tradition unspleens.
    Everything superfluous hurts
the ever-fixed
trembling with accessibility, classics warned me, swells
                                  aside sizeless
                                                                clustering
                                  in faint name series
                                  cortège of pinpricks, more distance
is what will
cost you intense.