meticulous [2012]

after "bossing"

What is to be garnered from this adherence to systems of torrential downpour?  

(rich is to receive plagues of
humidity     and
Samuel Beckett's ghost
wears a nightie for me

in the last tilled armistice earth
I planted my trust in you
my memory coat
my 90-minute mix tapes)

Who are the enemies of your sneakers?
Your lava-lamps?
Your Cornish game hens?

(I am in roundabouts and waiting
at the dumpster with a peony
in my hand
give me your heart
trash     and I'll paint you 
a masterpiece mourning

love
gun-metal blue

and the reasons are for seven
like the four is for regret)

What is a simple science but a formula for sophistry?

(a try is a curve toward tumult and
a given reward is inking in
the reservoir

paste
pace

somehow     the whereabouts of
a drunken coin slot is unknown
beyond the waistband)

Is Zukofsky's A a letter?

(the wilderness lip has been
co-opted     and fortified

paradise

what is absurd is a spiked hammer and 
a man hungry for face

a smile)

Was my tongue born before me?
Before De Kooning?
Picasso?

(she candied her cough and
opened an umbrella of
temerity  
and nearby is humid 
                               
                                                my tongue was born before me