committed | 2017
it tastes of beer and garlic
when zero plus seven is a zipper
and six minus six is a yacht.
In this demilitarized zone
portobellos distend,
floating around
suspended doldrums
in a kind of complete,
and kind of
under construction,
destruction
contingent on the erected labs
and demolished brothels
where blue-collars are dissected
and scientists, prostituted
though the Zeigeist insists
love remains --
a bitter betterment
with wild peppermint
in unsettling settlements.