-- You called your parents got their voice
machine and then left a message telling them the voice on their machine sounds
like that of a stoned voyeur or a
longing pedophile
-- No
I said yes the stoned voyeur
But no
a
longing pedophiliac
Pedophiliac
As in hemophiliac homophiliac
necrophiliac
--
Lilacphiliac
Where were ya goin widdat
-- I spose Im a little fascinated with philiacs
The tendency towards
The abnormal attraction to
-- Phillipphiliacs
-- Now yer makin fun of me Why yawanna go an make
fun of me
-- When arent I
You bends me over humorous
-- You cant be serious
-- I can
Serious however aint a laugh
Not a laughing matter
I look around me at all the dire
seriousness seepin in through every uncaulked gap joint an gutter
an aint a connected soul lifting
a finger to help avert the obvious
Well fuck
Id rather laugh than cry
You help me laugh with your absurd little antics
-- Theyre curiosities
-- Theyre antics
When someones curiosity has
congealed and cured into into Into a blackjack or nail-studded
mace
that curiosity aint curious any more
that curiosity aint curious any more
It is fullyformed antic hay Theatrics
Youre a fuckin artiste
-- Thank you
I spose
-- Gawd no thank you You help the
intolerable be tolerated
Youre Curly to my Moe Harpo to Groucho Costello to Abbott Laurel to Hardy Foil to straightman
If I didnt have you in my
corner
Fuck
Idve cut my throat long ago
-- Yaknow were living in a
physician-assisted-suicide-state now
-- Yeah
But first we have to assist the physicians to suicide who arent worth
the sheepskin foreskin diplomas conferred upon them
Handed off like Psst buddy You
got an extra prophylactic tucked in your wallet Ive used up all mine
Ya notice how I used prophylactic
to hunker down alongside your philiacs
-- I did I did
Youre suggesting separating the
wheat from the chaff
-- Yes
The chaff chaps my hide
-- And if its all chaff
-- Then
Ive many fewer reasons to cut my throat
You see theyre part of the
ceaseless oozing and seeping
-- Part yes but they aint the root
-- Roots go deep
Cuttin or pullin em They could very well be the electriccord to
the resuscitator or life support
-- Could
But it could also be that the
root is part and parcel of their sales pitch
You need me more than I need you
However no matter how lopsided the
relationship when the sides of the equation become too
tortured
the equation is false
an equals anarchy
an equals anarchy
-- The fuck
You reciting to me my story about the alley wall in Minneapolis
My fear of anarchy when its spelled without a c
-- Uhhuh
An the clown standing on the
island separating traffic One half his
head shaved front to back the other half long hair
-- An the plummeting eagle
tattoo on his stubbled half
You really get laid lookin like
that
they said over each other
Were a couple of some kind of
queerophiliacs ourselves
arent we
-- Right as rain
afternoon, Day-between-Two-Ts, 4 11.
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