Lip Service by Bruce Andrews
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Saturn     4

  PRESS the stupor lopped chic
shock shirk hallucinogens aside pressure points
that sleep – abeyance that minute apexes satellite
                                  retreat this to mostly stars
                                  awkward circular spit – the hole (with an H)
                                  is the false, I need big words because I’m
                                  sexual? – recuperative tremor:
episodic fragile licking, spotless blastogenesis;
    & chivalrous dairy, a blur stops to be
                                  my sister household of verbs I also
                                  think inquisitive
                                  strictly frenched, hive impure
permission breath: Live boys! – mom’s pelvis, good backlighting
around the drugs; theatrical tears mimic duty possible dart
                                                                Where when & now –
                                  fighting the war not to vibrate,
    souvenir statues – fertile perk out
                                  shags to be free remorseless measure
                                  measures remorse, more beat promsin’
                                  rage for nova tramp skulled honey:
                                                                marionette discords stun
                                                                by me, anything but
                                  imposture halts debuts
                                                                barely warm the buds at
                                  what? – age never
                                  licked enchanted undercranking dextrous
                                  volume hesitation waltzes zeal?
    Frivolous phantom body-outwitters – latency
makes lude treatly the best company
touching withdrawal makeshift errors
                                  to the catcalls lacing fuzzier chink –
poison the wallflowers swear to you
forgetful extinguisher didn’t touch them, less live
                                  cabaret voluptuous scruples left no message
                                  – so – have – known gone
off, it’s ice agile anxiety;
    you’ll never see argue without
                                  shirt on glissing goofs, lost
chatterbox fleece of pills start synthetic
in bodies, nasal-arousing webs & ethering embellish
                                  the cloture thought rests with its disowner
                                  neutral backhand, abbreviate this sahara –
                                  develop any less to be interested
hairlipped hymen, postponable azure
                                  fossil engorgement defies engagement –
moon into mound vendetta
delicate hookah tempest bursar.
    Frequent means renting – spider pulse lurched all
                                                                girds flare topless
                                  expert shorthand tail reunion –
blithely beat, we sped
which I have decided
                                  scents cells, nope root hoisting
the temperature over the hemline misaffect bout
                                  surge brushes off leg palm-reading slang
                                  be-tunicked chevron divides.
    Slightest divining rod to kneel –
                                  a two-necked diatribe of happy
at the feet of your lusts: handmaiden diminuendo
                                  my hand tenderized obtrusiveness
                                                                juice my wink this one
                                                                one quits normal flesh
                                  capacity as Pandora’s sufficient word
stand to stay lickback sloping halations, literacy
                                                                in wetteners
                                  few = merely thick confide yours
marks the decentering sinister, vagabond flotation publicitied
bed a tongue heroics confides to regret.
    New sweet gavotte exciters caught in mid-spurt
so softly can stop tiptoeing off: margarine
                                  veering towards fooling around with
                                  spasm rocks, scoop softened down to
                                  your quasi-conscience liking
                                  spectator lips disobedient
crooning marks a bed for you: come into my hand, perfume
contortions liquid ricochet – it don’t chafe
doubling of its slit spread secondhand –
here’s another wet scene, treasure thickening
mutual spine synch
candied right move.
    I oust front
                                  reluctant deed word daring reason desire
impolited prodigal lips my intentions have stopped
                                                                sobbing shut me up
                                  being coy about my dare to hint
                                  grief breeds eclipse, bullionated pell-mell
                                  inquisitorial redeemer
anxiety helps me forget
we both have husbands, we’re married
virgin in dilute spermatazoa
                                  sucrose grew bad broke praise hands appease
                                  tobacco mineral button’s infecund
                                  raw butter frustration swoon
surcharged by exasperation;
    & ardent droop smoothish recklessness
                                                                zeroed in, privacy
                                  begins with attack, prudery loves lamination:
May I give you a little toot? –
                                  inanimates punctuate evaporate
risqué serpentine of the torso –
                                  what chisel did you swallow? – lax contrite
                                  blowhard nerves refusal ravaged well;
I did that upstairs, the movie lassos
the line outside of that grief of yours trying to
                                  jumpstart itself out:
you must excuse your curiosity & open your knees –
                                  playmate cadaver agog touché
                                  excess covetous lipstick under suspicion.
    No ice locked lamé carnage, dream bulldozers
your ante confounds – wrestling recipes bedside
fate soberable melts indite all curious
                                  this disappearance act is imprisonment
pure bosom automatism cling clandestine
                                  up rinsings can hum touch too quick true seed
                                  recline the decline pills that mate:
                                  Sound is music – Bite! Bite!–
blood night out.
    I List the Thrill
fledgling superlative de-ordained nerves, seams hum
                                  cling cutting lessening lovelaces
spread to resist –
                                                                ewn ahmee
                                  goodbye undone
goodbye tears, vows, favor, portion remasculates
                                  irremediable vampire
                                  taughtly to bed with your light
                                  lighten up baiting, last call for retorts! –
learn, learn to satisfy: plow right in, uncurtailed affect
                                  cleansed to be different truant candor
                                  yield to thrill.