the jerk eats meat after all

ego eats the rope.
There is no reading list
isn't that a funny joke.

Beneath the reach of that enigma
is muck
and you know it

Shave poor substance, darlin
and appear as you are
wet faced and bare to the world
a sickness carved upon the pillow

who comes to play in pools of the fools
who are taken in by magic
propositions
or
prepositions.

You know it when you see it
if you have the
I