Sobriquet

Nicked of name, slandered apiece
  Pie plantation, harvesting

Tricked by same idolatry
  Wince, dismayed, at feigned release.....

    Reined in by the whip-cracking snide 
      Made man; debased in his parlor,
    His greeting-card smile replaced by a vile-set
      Face, agape.....

        A weighty resolve,
        A credulous host;
        A fish in a tin:
        A swimming success!

Skyscraping

Drastic are the days of these finds:
Tower-high fulminous waste-plants,
  Churning with virulent sulphur-fumes

Bedeviled by blasphemous pride:
Gyroscopic contorted endeavors,
  Whirling 'round the balustrade

Tragic are the ways of these minds:
Fickle and fractious filaments,
  Dimly emitting a wan woesome light

Pheasant

Underglass, all microscopic:
  Essence masked in blithe responses
Questions asked, drawn blanks beneath
  A thin veneer of make-believe

A quarter-horse run ragged down
  Some clustered hive, damned environ
Blueblood quench the red beneath:
  Twisted, that serpentine wreath

    Sotto voce far-flung point made moot
    From fine-wrought banquet-table's foot:
       "Somehow the savory scent of your substance
        Falls short of redeeming the loss of your trill....."

Panaceanathema

Strawman broke this camel's back;
 Humpday water-fetching lad
  In druggist-clothes forged false RX:
   Buzz unperturbed amongst insects

Thousandeye surveyed the scene:
 A-list black-tie go-between;
  In chemist-robes' threadbare embrace
   Slit earthbound eyes see inner-space

Handshake, tremulous, defied
 Clenching diffidence's vise;
  In paragon's ruse the entirety clear:
   That fallow field near.....

   Plowshare-meek cast to the wind:
    Dandelions, might-have-beens;
     On pariah's tar-blackened and feathered disguise
      Burnt rouge falls in flecks from ash-cindery eyes 

Nothing Doing

Featherstrewn road's slipshod cobblestone-needs
  Gracelessly chosen: sky-high, plummeting

Granted pluralists' pose slywise indemnity,
  Fuck the trodden-upon: boot-stomp mercilessly

    Not a one of our curses can even encompass
      The malevolent means to their ill-gotten gains;
        Long-sheathed but still sharp, world-worn talons, aquiver
          Recall once, when they thrived, more alive than today

Graft

Leaking through the trickle-down gutterway-foundation town
Arsenic faucets' malevolent shine, 
  Reflecting off the brine

    Waterworks, porcine promont'ry:
  A pinhead-fashioned abdit'ry

Jogger-feet stir restless rhythms: blacktop traces, whitewashed schisms;
Vantage-point from gallows-pole: 
  Perceive piecemeal of the whole

    Mineshaft's sun-deprived crevasse:
  A mighty price for diamond-glass 

Forfend

An unwieldy rule, this decaying retainer,
A firmament-mouthpiece: that old confidence game

All fallacious, presume trite tautologies' precedence
Aught anomalous evidence tossed, meanwhile, aside

Aching dissonant minds: everyman-ostracization
Allows for no haystack; this needle, let lie.....

Ersatz

Whither these trappings?
Faux lace, and drawn curtains;
A dithering stink at minstrelsy's knee:
  Cloying airs, as-you-please

Whence these affectations?
Imitations unflattering;
Wobbly caric'ture's simpering swain:
  Progressive, but in name

Wrath ersatz, wraps filthy racket:
Dissident-mimics' capricious bravado;
Tiresome reaction'ries' cacophony mimes
  Musty nihilist/hedonist doggerel-lines

  Wretched conniptions, banal as they're brazen:
  Warhol-foretold spawn'f McEverything;
  No 'mount of piercings or patches or perfid'ous polemics
    Can conspire to ply this punk pretense with substance

Delphi

Omphalous stone, sideways petrified wood
 On crude earth-riven shanties

  Drunk: kool-aid tart tasteless
   Depraved, as only was perceived:
    Stone-shattered glass windows

 Parnassus groans, underneath leaden ten-weight
  Paw-prints in the wastelands

    Beast-provenance glimpse: 
     Reductionist-reckonings cleft twain, as daydreams
      Fill Salacity's eyes.....

An Inaugural Thought

blinding freewheels on the mountain road
oblong shadows lopside-overthrown
rutted pothole-asphalt, pockmarked pit
marks the onset of a chain-link fence

pining meatbags glut the Sunset strip
blinkered monkeychildren fit to flit
turnabout around their deadset ways
agglomeration of uncounted days

winding circuit aught to close in time
etch-marks underscore the bottom-line
ipso facto, dominae gloriam
butter-fingered keeper's quaking hands