13. magpie bridge

clownpox or clown frolic where
enough bad cess must revive
our last broken grasp of grief

our next worried breath of smoke
by flickerlight brisk snipers
pick off stragglers not your friends

then some dark night the clown's you
reaction boils at red lights
the medical sector hums

adrift on sewage i flirt
apology rockets tip
eCanoe doodle bargain

unfangled collapse hunger
for next to direction hurt
my fist your officious face

“A place like Earth will wilt the flesh off your bones unless you can make fun of it, or treat its persons and places as no worse than ghosts and ghost places.” --R A Lafferty

The crazed gruntbark nesting dolls version.