malefactor poetaster (flarfish #50)

cronobacter poetaster—
salmonella malefactor—
flay your cruelly blacked-out heart

one element erasmus punk
mender-eyeing milk / are u sycophant
or plagiarist 80 pages in?

criminal or felon? anti-matter skate?
hag the play / r u predator of snorts?
strike the pedestal / defame the stage

mandala manacler / u know no restraint
a phiz phosphoric / bilge neurotic spewer
of guiltless interludes / ignorant & skewed

as u scribble speaking parts for criminals & prostitutes?
catullus & horace roll about in their small-petaled tutus

“she hid pencils beneath her gown, slipped out the pink erasers, bit down the metal sleeves to pretty serrations, carved an index of incongruences into her skin. nurses kept her cuffed in gauze.”

— Justin Phillip Reed / “Borderline”