Lip Service by Bruce Andrews
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  OH insensate
Torpid
                                  majorette novelties in barter
only the womb can fool in a faint calamity’s gloss
                                  disengage the computer choked vest –
                                  that’s right, you, stupid –
                                                                the obvious spoils
wobbling baby syllogisms:
chaste endorphin pits, lips derided alibi!
    Vegetarian ‘good guy’ colloidal clique,
armored spit grievers –
Satan had sex with Eve’s first sophism, cheats aphorisms
fucking out of service,
    and civil sperm munchkins I also use –
I used to be –
an egg slicer, orgasm now renting
                                  vampirical worms for my passivity,
    it’s the bad infinity, automatic restlessness
can’t be a commercial journalist of my own self:
                                  cheap happy beliefs as shrill
                                  as ego to prim of precomfortable heart
                                  pessimistic suds.
    Too bad everyone has my arms and body:
amateurish concubinal cherub, apron tittering
mull in vitro testicles
into receivership; crisco gloriously
as a second language dips & gelds
safekeeping blisters – fatuous eggs
gag me with a fetal monitor chandelier.
    Spiked curt cob royale
                                  foal for scrubbed-off kisses
stumble duchess blam to vanity negative back –
let me Al Hirt my ego, look what wallows:
    connubial crisis minister, sentiment binocs
                                  slime its own assurance
                                  & chained sex slave’s own story
adjourns as sad diatribal halo fascination.
    Pen-I’ll –
                                  doldrums – what’s his stall? –
i am not dumbo, what if not me? –
                                  petite sense protocol to the top
                                  conjectural expect of V-neck contrition
dub,
    caustic conceit issues lots more
                                                                yell when not hope
                                  listening iced antenna batter self-impinging
    A being with trifles involve dipping
                                  bring it on yourself in my pocket
                                  attachments I didn’t want
                                  my belladonna credentials
violating hazard celibate threats,
    slave unionization extemporizing loneliness
                                  by lawyers out of lawyer
begets the home poking volley of the hump
revelatorily masturbatory spanking as meditation
hives by the victor strangle use into pudding
to fight lips late at night rejecting swoon,
    reverberant carp favor admire less easily
                                  fanning fallopian fatale
                                  I half some, I’ll fake you home.
    Anecdotally prudish party hops
sure depose ardor;
a taking fellow wife, slippery regret by skylight
not exactly a fluffball of affection on the radius:
cream rises to the top
                                  stars of exasperation
                                  with exaggerated cunning too manfully
especially if you beat it.
    Sybaritic tricks
pedestrian bachelors begging betrothal rhythm
unfulfillment in grams –
    I don’t want you I don’t want your problems
                                  ingratiating – if you have four legs:
                                  basted shame galls egregiously
as modesty toted –
remember her beauty, never forget his treachery,
cause bandied quirk cautioning flap
    can’t make heads of its tails –
I gotta be honest: men are slugs of heat,
                                  can you scratch your back with your pills?:
                                  fine fur … stet douche …
                                  wounds from boredom sue.
    Between drooping of the lips, my ditch got garlic
                                  pout down gamine aim apprehended kneel
impregnate for welfare of wanting to be the eye of desire,
                                  fixed ardent I’m tiaraed of this
                                  reindustrialization of fellatio
                                  propositioning the ankle wetters
check yourself,
    your royal Slutness, put some skull
                                  in those blondes, constipated cherubs
                                  diddle with the plethysmograph –
could you have gotten to his armpit sooner? –
Peeping Tom threw up on the windowsill.
    Notch of ninnies hospitalize this longing mitt most doubt
unsolved crimes of stress
pinnacled dalliance: whenever he gets a full hard-on,
the loss of blood to his brain makes him pass out –
scolding spoiled ourselves, no, that doesn’t inspire me:
                                  linoleumed onus diplomatically ungulfed
                                  urinary sulkiness
fails all else.
    What happens to you can develop false wings
                                                                name & prank
                                  this gyp mouth let the back door hit you,
neurosis equipped with couch, a more decorative
anti-intellectualist choice faked from the start –
                                  sapper’s delight curt
                                  nurturing by professionals ‘went left on me’:
                                                                by the hour? –
                                                                to accept practice self
                                  evacuatedly catch that forget that –
                                                                seh taygzahktermahng ser
                                  ker zher dayzeer

I want to know where I stand with you so I can start
taking you for granted, takes a chance mumbles more so
he can hardly ever wait to hear what he’s going to say.
    No bride felt good
                                  suffragettes pleading widow fad
                                  expressionism on novocaine labially bankrupt,
                                  deep inner imbalances are usually the cause,
                                  please do not hesitate to leave me alone
even pettier harm overdue mother matter last
mistake – goodbye;
    when fools step up
                                  self-muting recriminates
individual guest-houses for the misconceived
                                  bedroom busybody claque by bedside –
                                  patrol this bumper pride
                                  piety wearing rubbers
from someone closer to the top of the food chain;
    and duties elusive
                                  ‘becoming sexual woman’ =
                                  ‘becoming attractive to men’?:
                                  transports of their dupes
maneuver the erection behind the battle-lines –
if he were any more limited he’d disappear.
    Deliberateness! – this was not necessarily
a small assignment: boredom has provinces;
    ferocious inverse impatience, strap
                                  follies that sulk off boy bisque
fur to ignore,
fly-swatters toward home so strenuously inconsequential
the monstrous prop was in my cunt;
    emergency hospitality manners
                                  reptile furtive cosmo failure –
                                                                habits no details
                                                                surfeit the new dish
papoose sops clean to shovel the fate of the douse
teeth no soon in vain
lethal egg’s luck waltz regret.