goodness nose

[bloggod]

is it good? what can one know but to write
again. but is it GOOD? what can one
do but send them back out

with sacklunches of dynamite
&courting flowers& clean underwear
so if they're struck dead by

a blind editor, if they replace
fluids of verbage with stale anemic
euphenisms, it's nice

but is it good? what can one
imagine but to tuck back the burnt flaps,
lick the putrid edge of envelope,

and send them back to
the frontline

---1988