Vesuvius

Trying to clip the creek
To the bank with a clothes pin
Waterlogged system
Rusty spring
Faulty planning

Logic squeezed out like mustard at a corndog
Hypertension is not wisdom
Chewing the leather straps

Trying to hold the sun
Still with a bobby pin
Burned fingers
Excellent conductor of heat

Private fantasies are not public policy
Christian charity is a doily over my death boner
Busy work is not the Great Wall of China
Vanity bamboo hut out back behind the big house
Pretend is salve for whitey-boy guilt

Furiously slapping at
The moon (the moon)
With a cane pole

Trying to prop up
The heavens
With a fresh flat pencil
Some folks are allergic to rubber

I am trying to stitch this one to all the rest of them
But the seams will split
Collide and cleave
Neopolitan ice cream is never truly integrated
Until it's too late

Trying to stop the bleeding
With scotch tape
Platelets spoil adhesion
Fire up the cauterizing iron
It's a branding of necessity
Not scarification

Bliss was a pimple that I tried to pop
It erupted up and out on my countenance
Ugly eruption, Vesuvius
Ugly eruption, Vesuvius
Ugly eruption, Vesuvius
Vesuvius at myself
Vesuvius at myself