Tolerant and patient, pillaging
for profit and adventure,
pseudopods protrude from slippers
down a narrow path
where undomesticated animals of the countryside
tend to fruits and vegetables
that run for cover when venturing near politics,
the clumsy attire of calcareous shells
indulging in broadleaf quantum phenomena,
wasting time on a hill
where spacepods are supposed to land,
unfurling sails as footlights illuminate surfaces
in theatrical fashion…
weights being distributed
to prevent the shifting of footlockers
containing immortal pleasures and arousals
and the confessions of units freshly gilded for battle,
though banned from plundered cities and graves
that have no attachments or ties…
Deceleration is a routine process,
the alien, exotic, and strange wait in shadowed places,
lingering on a projected land mass,
grasping at conclusions based on premonitions
that hover somewhere between governments and businesses,
arts and sciences…
that fall from the forehead in animated revelations
settling on hungry embryonic brain cells
to be extracted from the cerebrum
by force of habit and advance calculations
using pincers and tongs,
the movable appendages effective against crowds
when set in firing position…
arguments line the stomach in rhetorical circumspections
and financial rewards
which coerce the decadent by violent means
and through the trimming of cargo…
The inhabitants of the forests below
become preoccupied with gifts of two-pronged utensils,
heedless in their thoughtless inattention
as an abrupt increase in speed carries them away
to work at small industrial wheels
in the shape and structure of inert flowers…
They observe proper etiquette during their desperate times,
though wretched and pitiful in appearance,
their noses placed between the index and middle fingers
held above the power-operated platforms
where heavy metals are wrought…
They pay fines and take future precautionary measures,
moving leaden structures of decorum,
arrange coordinating elements in patterns
remembered for their forfeiture during the growth of trees,
leave a slight taste of atrocity,
captured in adventurous novels
by workers who have purchased their freedomand gathered together in an illusionary drawing,
held together by the beating of the wings
of certain birds oblivious to their faults…
In a list
A contest entry
- Abstract Poetry by Lj-.
700 points, ended November 9, 2008, 14 entries
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