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A Buddy Comedy or Adventure Featuring Hydropic Man vs. the Authochthons of Florida

Alex S. Johnson

A bloated buffoon
twisting in red light
has retained stiff
feathers of his humor.

And the calendar marks his deaths
with smears of bearded isthmus.
Birds are interlaced with shadows
threaded together in the jeweled cabinet
their song is a golden mirror
their wings the stuff of wonder.

Tall ships
puff furiously as drugged
damsels, erased by gun-toting lovelies,
bury lambent fools in
the beach of Panthalassa.

Grainy stock footage of a zoom-ridden elephant
repeats the neck-bitten void,
making the filmed action savage
with mocking bursts of dream-logic.

Becoming the Rosarium,
an authentic fleet of the four elements
laced with penumbras of the cross
carries the body of the
bleeding World Clock.

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