arbor day
Take off that gray sweatsuit
In this furnace light, you're so cute
Let's get chartreuse
Vignettes vamoose
Every surplus plight I refute.
We got the bud and the blossom
Tapered just like Andre Dawson
Sink through the rind
What lies behind
Is a puddle fit for galoshin'.
Stretch out on a plane it's Arbor Day
Throw that lavender incense away.
Good breath far finer than flowers
Play pincushion to the hours
No winds, no words
No bloody birds
Only flesh and all it devours.
Eden inklings just not so Greenpeace
Freedom's anywhere you tilt your sieve.
Coke cans and Milky Way wrappers
Cemented, wired, and plastered
Breakthroughs, my dear
All happen here
Not in deckled white everafters.
Stretch out on a plane it's Arbor Day
Throw that lavender incense away
Wear that damn Patchouli I'll flambé you
Heaven help us — get out of the way.
© 1993 John Brocato
In this furnace light, you're so cute
Let's get chartreuse
Vignettes vamoose
Every surplus plight I refute.
We got the bud and the blossom
Tapered just like Andre Dawson
Sink through the rind
What lies behind
Is a puddle fit for galoshin'.
Stretch out on a plane it's Arbor Day
Throw that lavender incense away.
Good breath far finer than flowers
Play pincushion to the hours
No winds, no words
No bloody birds
Only flesh and all it devours.
Eden inklings just not so Greenpeace
Freedom's anywhere you tilt your sieve.
Coke cans and Milky Way wrappers
Cemented, wired, and plastered
Breakthroughs, my dear
All happen here
Not in deckled white everafters.
Stretch out on a plane it's Arbor Day
Throw that lavender incense away
Wear that damn Patchouli I'll flambé you
Heaven help us — get out of the way.
© 1993 John Brocato