SIXTEEN MAKING DO
An ape hollering in a corner, squeaking and honking, tears streaming down his cheeks, muddy, striped pant-legs. A well to do pompous ass, a fine tailored suit, fingernails taken care of, knocking at your door with a pamphlet. A dusty old toad, piled on top of a metal stool, humming and urping, lungs full of rotten old wood and the airborne contents of tin cans. A frail, nervous bird, a cable-knit turtleneck with a seasonal design, softly, softly objecting.
A big dummy, warty hand clutching a fountain soda, whimpering and alone. A slick, greasy, perfumed turd, sunglasses indoors, pathetically pointing his finger and grinning. A balloon deflating on the sidewalk, dark indigo denim, varicose and coarse, bellowing about the past. A beautiful, precarious arrangement of lady things on a shelf, absorbing every vibration for years and years, the curious mediation of this energy, nothing to say on the matter.
A very kind, sad old dog, sick, wet eyes, top collar buttoned, sighing and stuttering. A puffy, braying rooster, impotent but loud, shrieking about propriety. A 4″ x 6″ inkjet photograph of a romantic pairing, matching Los Angeles Lakers clothing, yellow and purple, yellow and purple, stepped upon and scratched, made to envelope tiny bits of gravel and soil, shame-facedly venturing a question which makes it feel simple. A crunchy exoskeleton roach, on its back, in a hallway, commented upon and plinkoed this way and that for weeks, finally emitting a wet, puffy hiss upon severance.
An image on a screen, fluids in a sack, wadded up and crammed, hammered out flat on a glass screen, orating at an unpleasant volume, black plastic housed speakers vibrating awkwardly. A little weiner, crumpled hat in hands, Willy Loman feet not touching the foor, who never said anything in his life, just once began to squeak, aborted, quickly looked at the ground. A great big proud egg, easily twelve feet around at the widest point, an impressive feat of equilibrium, gold plastic paint on purple cotton, emitting a careful music, minimal and not unpleasant. A real tree branch, knobby and flaking, miles from home, dead eyes and guppy lips, slack-jawed mouthing the same syllable, over and over again.
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