Rainbow Flags
Pazuzu will have you
tonguing Latin; crystal
meth will have you
in a crop-top tank top,
purple, semaphoring
drum-and-bass pulses
mid-morning for horns
dopplering down
the main drag to the college
(between cheilitis lips
a referee whistle
of dubious origin).
“We need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”—Kafka (against the safe-space cancel culture pushed by anti-art bullies, left and right)