dark night of the sous-chef

(via)

"People have got to understand that it’s just as patriotic to try to keep your country from dying, as it is to die for your country." --Frank Serpico (via)

Reflections.

1.
but hitler's acquittal
wasn't the worst thing
that honor goes to the aftermath

2.
wishing this would STOP
or anyway change TONE
post tenable ONCE

with orange, lemon PEEL
back then Styx my OATH
drank white opaque ALOE

never to pay TOLL
by secret handshakes HELD
slippery EDIT

go to join the DODO
song of hoarse IDLE
gangrene taking the TOES

3.
i know this city in all its lights
& i don't know it
Gregorian chants, glitch, torch song

as i thread its streets
lives blank behind the folded shutters

4.
jet trail
just above the low sun
& unseen gulls crying

5.
well it's not IBSEN
nor the nadsat of BOWIE
most pindi of SWAGS

our flag sideways figure EIGHT
over these new broken NESTS

Wolf Cento.

"...punning is incompatible with murder." --The Charterhouse of Parma

(pic via thea temple on fb)