Brooks Lindberg

Sparkling Arsenic

Birth dogs while death bitches.
You know: cunts, cocks, curfews abound.

¡Bark! ¡Bark! ¡Woof! ¡Bark! ¡GRNNGHLHRR! 
Or: your eyes glistery as hectares of lit 

rain-sprayed windows at Seattle’s dusk
on my eyes make my heart crawl with lice

and its mad thrompity thrompings don’t 
curb one single lice-itch—thank god. Our

twosome smothers the smothering the angels
smother the smothered with. I.e.,

me. O, life’s shittings: all the shit that’s 
fit to print weighs on me as much as

raindrops on Mount Rainer. When
I’m with you. Wherever upon the warp

of the world we are. I wish my cock
was twenty stories high, or thirty, or

vapor if that’s what you want. I don’t care.
Duh. So long as you like me liking you.

Let this be the most beautiful thing I’ve 
ever–forever afterward included–ever said:

you are life yet you are fair. Or: 
you are life yet you are fair. ¡Bark!

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