Vincent(e)

Culpable and subject to a thousand errors and inputs Platitudinal, impregnable an alphabet tipsy and barefoot Vernacular is a limit, formal and amusing Gesture evades capture, evaporates and always moving Poetry is so pretentious it's enough to exist And inhabit a shared place extending and falling Through empty space between shoulder blades and piano keys Capacity unfolding deficient for speech I can't recall the address of that dark old house Was it remodeled or demolished In a Vincent Price southern gothic sonnet anonymous Where the pendulum had fallen, standing in smithereens A mystery unseen, abundant in the heat Culpable and subject to a thousand errors and inputs Platitudinal impregnable an alphabet tipsy and barefoot Insufferable an object through which profound terror pushes inward institutional intelligible a silhouette hobbling and injured No parades or parties here Volleyball on the beach in separate beds at the boarding house Matrimony besieged When original feelings are compromised By tea, ketamine, suburban streets and sympathy The pharmacy where the college kids and sailors slung hash To the rejects on the anchor, a Vincente Minelli salient saber Elegant as it drags across the paper, headlines, theater-house and a furnace Proscenium of meat Culpable and subject to a thousand errors and inputs, platitudinal Impregnable an alphabet tipsy and barefoot Insufferable an object through which profound terror pushes inward Institutional intelligible a silhouette hobbling and injured Subtle and consumable a blink in the midst of cosmic drama A brush and a scrape friction takes a conspiracy of hands and commas