Headgear of chrome tongues

that whisper hatreds in soothing forms

pretty quills that hook

unwilling flesh back into false existence

dancing on a heated plate

that shines with gold.

Nooses dangling from hand carved rafters

decorative with ribbons and

the trickles of collapsing names.

Sediment of days crushed

treated as a sacred powder

laid in lines upon a rotten monument's

sick rings of concrete ooze.

Robotic bloodhounds sniffing

plastic coated ground

a throne of feces emerging on fetid stone.

Grease moving on vague plaques

of civic terror

worship of antique teeth

caught leering from a fossil's frozen mouth.

Veiled ornament of vacant crowds

drifting skyward on a kite of womb skin

jewel of inspected acres

rising on strings of steel.