(In
honor of Saint Francis of Assisi)
Good morning Brother Microbus.
How are your fumings today?
My continually blackening lungs
salute you.
I eagerly kiss your exhaust pipe.
Good morning and greetings to you
Sister Garbage Heap.
How nice it is to see you growing
from day to day.
My stomach aches for your poisonous
tidbits.
I hungrily gnaw at your piling un-recyclables.
Oh, hearty greetings and
salutations dear Cousin Open Sewer.
How absolutely flushed and muddy
you look
this fine morning.
My innards pine in an atavistic
longing when I see you.
I joyously drink in your miasmic
splendor.
Well, hello, hello there sweet
Nephew Noise Pollution.
How nice it is to bathe in your
stereophonic secretions.
My brain and thoughts resonate to
your stuttered cadences.
I happily sink into your
ultra-tantric agitations.
Ah, good day to you sweet Niece
Donkey-dung.
How many sidewalks did you cover
this morning?
My skin yearns for a vestment made
of you.
I gently caress the anus that gave
you birth.
Greetings there dear Uncle Rundown
Building.
May you forever represent the fate
of this nation.
My body hungers to walk in your
hollowed footsteps.
I mate with my whore in the acrid
privacy
of your bosom.
Oh, sincere salutations to you
lovely Aunt Upper-Class Landholdings.
May you forever mimic the growth of
your dear old husband.
My foot longs to walk along your
verdant pathways.
I bid all my beloveds adieu, as I
leave them and you,
and walk away.
(I shan’t return).
Oh, greetings, greetings and more
greetings dear Father Crumbling Mount.
How many unfortunate rocks have you
shed this morning?
My right hand itches to massage
your denuded soul.
I lustfully lick your exposed
rotten core.
Hi there gorgeous Mother Imploding
City.
Oh, how absolutely uninspiring you
look this morning.
My everything thirsts for a bit of
hope
still somehow buried
in
your loins.
I despairingly light a soul-made
candle at your crowded altar.
And
I wonder, I really do wonder,
Mother,
Mother –
what
sort of o b s c e n e
mass
is
taking place at your
crowded
alter
?
April 1999