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Jade Comic

You invade funeral processions
your grin an elastic kerchief
on the hair of the turf
senses snapping to charcoal mahogany corners
polished to go into the dirt
and tell your little redhead nieces that
grandma's thorax has already collapsed
then weep on rough roots
take out your guitar to sit curbside
on the public grave
laughing at your family name
and lighting it up

In city hall they know your drag gaze
a whole foot taller in heels
eyeshadowing the mayor
through the infrastructure's silver
of a picture frame, skeleton loaves
and cupcake banjo mouth
of gumless teeth presented
while the pens of every clerk
ooze night-blue ink and dangle wounded
on their dewy chains
damming floods of information
while your gypsy family loots and others starve
sex rains on your torso night and day
but you never unsash your genitals

Belching winds erode
death's face on your sugar cookies
our cousin planets pulse reflected light
down streaming multiform
of your aching curvature
you visit me in my armchair of sand
or the flesh made hammock
of a lazy revolution
I hand you your cum-laced corduroys
send you down to the lake for brown beers
in bottles older than the pharaoh's tombs
you crack them smiling lawless afternoon
and send shards sparking from your molars
your careless being rooted and re-rooted
in the deep indifference of earth.