Julian T. Brolaski – Two Poems

Julian T. Brolaski

Two Poems

gowanus apocalypse

bees at toledo gog and magog satellite—farce spycams ablog as they drip w/ pearls and molt landlord      peraventure infinite        di—ready— harry             harry ope              my  opia ersatz           rigeur            gays throw shade on the            heart to cover            ersatz         magoo            lineal         delionization            fugg.  forlorn. gag and how could I. surfing wit 4 score diadems, falcon four and twenty elders ersatz chartreuse       diamond in whore-diadem crinoline       cantelope       sitting on the waters what ipode cantilever—curls bewray pretty earlobe disgrace—federico— the buffalo I foment about, wildly the torture taste of pâté shard parade along the gowanus calliope anon     areft misanthrop       nebuchadnezzar dreams on margaritas-to-go       blind—behead—the messenger brangelina       boxoffice minnie pearl          autoharp avec how a dog plays tennis how a gog, magog if she has nails to standit industrial pawwipe sludgie, anon! how a dog goes we go thru anon antique roses and lamb’s quarters the gowanus’s fecal matter percentage proteus wo kristelnacht gauntlet of liquorsoaked amulet-tennis mesoteric acrostic dawn what we hang on anon, 311 we crouch in tha kitchen, adept lughorn optimus glazy better off sludgie, lol bullimous sludgie aloft, peraventure marinetied the buckstar truth I throw meat about sludgie being erato anon—pitbull backhand how a dog—southie crossd— vesuvius eros—greasepaw— ass singed & boiled— serve—snarlemane prim raintalassa dolla one dolla summer is afterr zinc, hazard of chicken heralded—purple sea—hold my calls beasts implored & character impaled agatha’s breast in a 14th century pincer anon 7 heads w/ 7 comings on angels w/ wings at their feet & at their wings here’s agog—eruvia                       flavia   gowanus among proteus wd if eratus might peeled of hir shortstockings d’artagne        rust thistleloo h&m;               madonna humidlock’d         maiden-in-green complete               like federico w/ parrott              the courtier fingering               his tassle cryptoquotation anon honeybees gurgling ersatz anglonorman bovary cum ratatouille pitbull T.O.G. all ridded of giggling anthropormorphia aghast bowery in the bowers the tee hee ambigenuity of amputee wannabees googling tee hee “silly faggot dicks are for chicks” wicked hee to bury my heart at my heart was in my knee liquid sunshine for Dana Ward as if waves are minions the maidens long crashing you don’t know what you— till you—don’t you the desert is least desirous of the sea the parched basin is at least coming or anxious craving of the sea and its grill of creatures as if maidens are minions the waves’re long crashing the desert is least and slantwise I must be down w/ the crease along the quaint crust as if waves are minions the maidens long crashing as if maidens long crashing the length of the river the desert is at least like totally whatever whatever whatever at the pinnacle end of the sea they want to put an IKEA I still dream but I know my dreams are—Dana, the grill of my birthstones hiss in my teeth swilling the myrtle I can’t get warm enough black snow I done got in to that liquid sunshine the tender maidens just aren’t.  my hair freezes into dredcicles the lip arched on a pin I done got in to that liquid sunshine My way was lit w/ subtle grey I drank a fifth to settle my mind O how I miss that western bay feeling dirty was never any nohow hermorraged w/out thinking to a hundred dollars as I walked down the street California hear me callin Your sunshine ain’t in liquid form my place among the pawns spawn of nil nobody amid no person not even the word love certain cheeses render me farcical a grill in the half lite glinting a quake on the brow the moment I came half awake to the prow to declare— —here was the prow, I mounted the dais I was tardy and half-ill, but I stepped to the podium I—mascara tear— approached the platform I opened my mouth I began to declare—

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