This Poem was Submitted By: Thomas C Rocs On Date: 2001-03-18 06:49:27 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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The Jellyman Stroll

Taps in like a telephonelinesman swinging on the steel-lined pikes  listening to stranger conversations  of white-lies blowing rain-bowed  rings of electricity like dirty kisses  Leaving silhouetted patterns  of wet lipstick angels romancing   smudged by nicotine stained nails  white handkerchief folds conceal the evidence of the perfect life for any anyman with a moustache Collecting cigarette butts bottle cap  tops shards of zippers tattered  yesterday’s lonely hearts club news a sun-warmed hubcap projects three  shimmering halos a few miles above  the dilapidated corner coffeeshop  promised in the small print of the prescription  Doing the jellyman stroll with one leg seven feet extended two thumbs stuck in the moist fruity filling four fingers guarding  the steaming caffeinated cup of life  over-spilling on the sidewalk painting an ink blot hop-scotch    Sweet aftertaste of icing drips from the edge of his cheek blackberry spots where the lapel  should be dashes of powered sugar chocolate streaks like bowties to accentuate the lines of a century-old pinstripe suit Looking always eight inches and six degrees off a passing gaze a dungbeetle rolls squirrel shit  into the mystery emerging from  the proverbs of a japanese greasetrap a hissing cooling kettle cries from somewhere as a aquarian girl lifts  her skirt to the slip  Wipes the stickiness across his face to abstract a chinese cherry blush  hands gripping a hot rod in his pocket  calculating the precise instance mid-day like clockwork erect stiletto statues  fresh-fleshed becoming available  and easily discarded within the hour   Turning through pages on a parkbench  beside himself unknowingly twittering his black hole eyes embroidering homages  of infallible heroes and villains barely- dressed in filthy magazines  stories only he can understand  

Copyright © March 2001 Thomas C Rocs

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