by David Blumenshine
a part
off in me, indeed, abandoned an I
now forbidden returns to store
rotten a rotten store
age where slander where self is concerned is
not exactly libel but may
provoke cockroaches
to lightly spice historic
freedom choices for freedom
solutions option solid
slim & dense noses: mine ain’t right, pick me
up a nude wand, where we can later record
the branches
to the branches
forsaking all those grounded fags on the ground
for hats turned side—
ways of forgetting
b-boys bronzed in Latin Quarters
microwave, me