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Three Poems from "Caesar Salad On the Rocks" by Jeremy Scott

Spastic Urine Contrivances

 

Eyeballs floating in sawmill gravy,

run for the hills, you who eat the

possum and spit out catfish bones,

painful Spinozan particles, waves,

undulate at underlying frequencies.

 

Dragons swim in egg yolks,

for the good of humankind,

only for the sake of macaroni salad

do we forget.

 

Falling tree debris,

spastic urine contrivances,

all a day’s toll,

for the unwieldy jackhammer.


 

Emulsion is My Stage Name

 

Mayonnaise: three parts me,

two parts your mother-in-law, 

emulsion is my stage name.

 

Regress to the womb

and you’ll live coated

in salt water and slime.

 

Obscure windows tell me

their secrets on Holy Week,

but only if I’m wearing a

dress with a nice floral pattern.

 

Wares hocked on the principle

of net returns, candy corn symphony.


 

French Fried Snow Angels

 

Baked in honeydew and clay pots,

we make little French fried snow angels

in our ashes. Consider the principle

that the universe hangs on, taxing the poor,

and you’ll have serendipity.

 

Poach yourself in motor oil,

drive to infinity,

and never forget to call your mother.

 

Jeremy Scott