"Richard Nixon was the last Republican leader to feel a Christian obligation toward the poor." --Garrison Keillor (via Poetry Hut)

"Little Hans

Each sockeye of adulterous claim
The prawns which is, which cannot be
In I, like others, surds the name
Enamel edge antimony.

The weight that Sandinistas flip
Where spoons before a face I face;
The squeekers of the Squares that rip
Pedantic antic paragrace.

In words like cannot cannot choose
A glass rim's rhyme, vertiginous;
The hands (which) signal/ize & lose
the closet porcelain to us.

Though ears rang from the nose that broke
No longer there as asterisk,
Three feet above the artichoke,
Spit sunspot's claused in amethyst

Pentameters, that blunt the thumbs
And mark for models this disguise;
As succulence a calmed benumbs
The mumps of noise that nieves surmise.

Claustration's plank? But plot's bemused
And line, that on a thigh stays sure,
Abstracted in a fold, refused
The buckled logic sauteed through her.

If these are risks took parallel
To moon and Hymen's Plato Blinds
Inside a phallus--asphodel
Glebed metaphysic's double binds

When so I climb. Apostrophize
With concept "copper." Symbolize
The bobbin's sort und da while sighs
Not eyebrows, grammatologize.

Recovered (or "recouped") Sublime,
A cultured ordeal cut apart
In intervals of terms that time
The onomastic Bonaparte.

Electrostatic fields?...but "smell
Still IS (an Aristotle spelt)
That represents "noun's caravelle"
In contumed space--an uberwelt.

The syllables place formal pace,
The way sperm dictums lumps not sum;
Defined as minds that crants deface
As if the why not had come

To obfuscate as insight why
The themes conventionalize the drinking.
The macrophysics of the lie
Locate a choired symptosis thinking

Speech is the way i fry my eggs,
The bald sarcophagus that disappears
Some jazz, the hypotactic legs
In diaphragms of arrears.

Frond's cullisance returns a plum
And am I am is all i tries
Cathected through each axiom
The postcard fiction signifies."

--Steve Mccaffery, in: Messerli op cit