head interrupts the whizz
pathway of cop’s abusive
stepfather’s gathering at City Hall
riot scene, white bread and
mayonnaise, engines revving
hot oil probing.
in repose on the wet concrete
defense of freedom at ease
as if deified,
waiting on my date
with a spawn of Gorgon;
met her on eharmony.
paintbrushes replace fingers,
blood and snot and pus,
your sweet sickly tongue
a severed serpent
of Medusa, going for
Perseus’s balls:
that jerk won’t let go
of the pointy keys to the clink
across the bay,
abandoned since Capone
financed the Summer
of Love.