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A Devotee of Smoking Lenses

Alex S. Johnson

I turn the corner, anvil at the ready
sad for the continuous demise of the hammer
its cracked thunder still in my ears
                                                boundary
What properties of sexual madness
doom us, Zen-bound strangers
to grapple in this garbage?
                                                exit
We should be mad to push the frontier
over the cliff where it belongs
with the rippled ruins of fences
property lines, divisions, squares on a
grid—killed by unbuilding,
slaughtered by calculus, squared off
in a formal duel with the moon man.
                                                a pipe smokes itself
Mister Restless says anytime, I’m dressed,
putting my shoes on
to a slick plastic cadence


And professional death in a dinner jacket
inhales the fragrance of any other skin,
alchemies of the mystic rose
                                                the slender thread


I feel so utterly but
subtly twisted in this
climate, my sleight-of-hand
revolt a puff of smoke from
the emptied sleeve
                                                a cabinet of mirrors
                                                gulps her dark hair

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