"Political Junkie"

1.
the glimmer of green
through the top of a Starbucks tea

it's been a quiet week in Lojbanistan

Hedorah rising
a world lit only by brimstone

i plot to sleep
why would you have heard

the MidPark Serpent

you ask and they refuse
skin soft as meringue

look and sound presidential

2.
tough on oil pumping
gentle on cylinder walls

arterial labyrinth
plant the jasper herb

their faces are ev'rywhere
you and i are nowhere

giant letter
on the back of a pickup truck

3.
the Wine Star, audible fire
your heiress diary scalps heroic masks

Nomen Tuum, by the sea
pebbled shiny black then pebbled matte white

His Goldness IX fog
His Goldness IX stab

His Goldness IX slug