homebound habits

air hot & full of rancor / can’t breathe / the bestial reliquary open on my chest / body full of foul humor / a plague doctor nowhere in sight / fallow fields & mud / so much boot-sucking mud / skull encased in mud / the pressure of 10 andré bretons & 3 1/2 tristan tzaras / every other breath an exquisite corpse / pustules full / venom sacs stretched to leaking / my own worst enemy / uninhibited by the showiness of ages

“How do you know what you’ve forgotten? He knew only that he was a case of nerves between two eternities.”

—Arthur Krystal / “What’s the Deal, Hummingbird?”