stripmalls
impetigo
Japan
crash
Fallopian tubes
babies
doctors
mutants
worms
urine
islands
heaven
owls
God
death
***special bonus poem***
soil
freaks
topology
planes
boredom
subways
energy
bacteria
blood
machinery
surgical rubber
geodesic domes
rheum
lampreys
rain
kittens
parking lots
rash
shrines
Europe
dogs
fat
steam
abortion
foreskin
elephantiasis
Caucasians
raccoons
meat
cats
trilobites
winter
intestines
infection
harpooned man
You lie there on the gurney
puffy
a swollen dirigible
what do they do with it all ?
that syrup of infection
sucked by plastic tubes
and whirring pumps
You are metastasis
I am your son
the child of loading docks
and parking lots
where shopping carts rust
in last year's snow
and junk mail gyres
in the Arctic wind
the souls of kittens
asleep in the accident glass
their shadows still stiff
by the side of the road.