Lipstick Swap
Wayward pouters puzzle over dross 
in ghastly quadrant highland tabernacles, 
owning spiked gypsy doodles in 
pterodactyl Steadicam rice balloons, 
flipped to ashen primate shoulder tongs 
by the wisest statuary, groaning over 
seasonal poofs of shallots in threadbare 
missionary imminence. 
Guests arrange an ouch forever, elating 
queasy fall resection tortoise inklings 
before structured luminaries stumble up 
to lamprey cartwheel orgy penitentiaries, 
feeling for solitary guardians in cardigan gales. 
Keisters christen original urchins 
with marching inguinal dumplings, bleeping 
into pried Scotch routines for groupies 
on sonic mantissa craze defense puree, 
quacking sourly at historic umbilical flotation 
in tasty spume coordinates. 
Martinis squelch tribunal undulation, ululating 
amusingly guileless topographic requiems 
for architectonic vintner pants in sprockets 
of a Sten’s ball-peen pulchritude, plus or minus 
the espadrille of tree house frills.
Wending flimflam from periodic insect saturation, 
hobnobbing with exclusionary torpor, educational 
cash chasms cash in cached casuistry 
for facial effacement’s surface furnace, 
bleeding Troy’s parasitic Parisian 
duck clock marquis in folded vowels, 
canned innocents, and gustatory truss 
marks of this embattled lipstick swap. 
Time-Trap Sighs
From far below the babble of marginal baubles, 
huffed and proffered with taut stretched hounds, 
comes the barking of aliquots and sedimentary crayons, 
simmering over doughnut stoops in sold-down Paltrymore, 
spurning typhoons merrily in jocose rotational caresses 
of sweet concrescent swoons.
Crescendos captivate clipped gaggles 
of fairly told and furious tattlers, 
trying on robotic wigs in tomfoolery’s 
penultimate surmise, coughed to 
splintered locomotive tiffs by 
squalid highbrow suitors of an 
adoration’s annual survival pit. 
Hokum lifts the arse of whaling nuns 
to ergonomic palm retriever soil, 
coiled in recompense for sweatshirt sundaes 
and mollified Hockedover Moonies, 
flexing quintessential scepters 
in doggone lassitude’s flimsy 
technical eyewash caboose. 
LL-57 brings up the derriere, 
flashing goulash facial jammies 
within apostasy’s tallied pies.
Sweetness pours down lace enigmas, 
supplementing time-trap sighs with cluttered crows, 
asleep in toweled-off trampoline entrancement bolts 
of shoelace grocer crabbiness. 
She culls the catwalk for sunshine glossies 
in daily chutney waybill wander, 
stipulating household hyenas at dawn 
for nestling newsboy underthing replacement,
termed numismatic by avuncular dropsy clothiers. 
How could a hobo countenance 
the prude dismissal of stealthy air seditionists 
from shallow conning tower knolls, 
sneered adroitly at juvenile sailors 
in row house deviled nylons?
Lorry Chimps
Wind climbs to cooing dove repeater tears, 
falling on fettered ears in pools 
of lachrymose pterodactyl sutures, 
bending distant rooftop catamarans 
with hoarse lineament shallows, 
punching time-retardant fate to diamond grist 
in followed waypoint indignation.
Muttered cowlicks warily refute a scolded trench 
with paradoxically wooden shipments of tire 
irony and tiptoed laboratory dog columns, 
fishing tousled curvature from pineal meanings, 
flourished in bobbled topographic cufflinks 
before a wrestler’s suburban sightings 
line up for caryatids of pentagonal unrest. 
Armed weariness snakes to thorough armchair tails 
of Automonkey Umpire sheaves and fibrous pundits, 
mopped to annular pistachio headboard turrets, 
firing bullfrog missives at swiped illegal egret scuffs 
in premature giraffe collation handlers. 
Spoilsports spout, 
offending marsupial karma 
with Hofbrau Mauser misfires, 
clenching kaleidoscopic fairy stools 
and amulets of umbral preset inquisitions, 
plucked from sighing octets of pewter thimbles, 
fueling dental winter dusk with keg line ballast palliatives, 
raked to spine powder. 
Lugging floral mussels to lorry chimp wiggling festivals, 
spooned rock stars spar with parietal espousers 
of the weirdest formulaic horse meat mown 
to naturalized menaces of flannel girth, 
crossing overt marionette neurotics 
with industrial crustacean galoots, 
leaving hockey scars in triumphal 
scintillations of encountered lisp eclairs. 
John Pursch lives in Tucson, Arizona. His work has been nominated for Best of the Net and has appeared in many literary journals. A collection of his poetry, Intunesia, is available at http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/whiteskybooks. His experimental lit-rap video is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l33aUs7obVc. He’s @johnpursch on Twitter and john.pursch on Facebook.
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