El Egg

Germ Philosophy






Segue to the top quince guitar and fustian parlance,

caught with your organs in the canopic jar,

in cadence the debt marches through the marshmallows

cuffed for killing metaphors and retreating from symptoms

the simpletons have cornered the power which is why

marksmen are needed to judo the elect to redemption

probate for wills, there's a highway to frisk by accident

that a twenty-four track studio can't light a match for the liquid

sound pricklers, patched-up pirates sculled and crossboned

without any concept of positioning the flag to be burned.



Caliban and Sycorax, the two new moons of Uranus, my pretty

between daffys and the wawa there must be some fallout to this

or language is not reversed in extermination, I'll let you know

when I figure out what metonymy means to my tumtum.



I fall aloof from the roof of my mouth

south toward a fuller fall where fools land lazily

enough to transpire in dedication to the date's dream.

Comedy burns a hole in the tragic outline of your inbox

your mascara, a carapace of dream pop

and night squeezed out of toothpaste tubes to make

the unseen concrete, crystallize your eyes stille nacht



You don't need a yacht to pronounce it dead on arrival,

the death of a rival, the double-jointed eyes,

sin's anesthesia, the cold metal trap of doorless corridors.

I'd bullfight you for another batch of that unsmothered gust

from nowhere where nobody wears anything out

and hand me downs are like a second pair of hands

to reflect upon the shield of ocelli behind apparent glass

(money changes but you still have hands)

where radioactivity performs its bulletproof ballet

or up on the highwire which we all can manage because

of those labyrinths in our ears, string-singers wingless

wolfing down the remote, trained for wages ruffled

each circus calliope its own canister of sunset,

subset of the stars' enconstellated ink.

So's I, so's I, so's I.


Not a crustacean, not the eustachian tube, not Euston Station.

An acoustician ducking under the meridian of the eye zone.

None the worse for the tether to that distraught hat.

No zines, no acronyms.

Gman, hymen, imam, caveman.


It's a lexicon, for fuck's sake, take the gas out.




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