Sitting

 

America, you have issues around death.

Take www.duckskulls.com -- home of

the Original Intimidator Duckskull --

it’s a way of saying You think you can

get away just by flying, motherfucker?  

Banks & bosses will break my bones, but

if it flies, it dies, so don’t even think.

[Affect incredulous, cocky, vaguely

threatening smirk.]

                                  It’s not even real,

this duckskull, all one word. It’s made

in USA of polymer resin, handpainted

to look like an angry dead bird skull  

w/eyes. Angry b/c it’s dead? Or angry on

yr account, like a guardian ghostcock?

If I had an animal skull on my rear view,

to remind me of the fractional life

I control, I’d think I’d died & gone

to heaven. I do have an animal skull, but

covered with flesh, not even dead, so

out of la mode, out of the loop, out of

necro-everything: the empty swamp,

the truck, the me . . .