How Pallid

(From the collection "Seventeen and Seven Sixths")




What was thought of as white

what has thought of itself as

what was made smart sideways

that which waits to be sucked on

that, too, that can but suck

that whole black density song

what would blanks dance to so

what if gomer’s son can’t sense

what essence passes for

that isn’t reducible

that declining sex style

that never listens but oh

what it hears what it knows

what it publishes about

what got shed in whose head

that shouldn’t ever be red

that shade especially

that states as white might wonder

what thoughts have to do with

what a field of goners thinks

what with the price of threats