Friday, June 20, 2025

Jeffry Jensen


PICKING THE POCKET OF MY POISONED WORLD


Grinning cats gathered at the bay window

It is all libertine and tribal stamina

That runs through my mob mentality

Too much clumsy bourgeois amusement

There are ancestral ghosts on the chopping block

Tedious resurrection has been put on hold until further notice

An unknown saint wants to sit out roll call

There are bushes for buzzards and wrangling for roses

Philosophical dimensions have been farmed to death

Someone sounded the political alarm

Before senatorial smoke could reach the moon

A new family alignment pushed the frontier

Into the face of a shaky trigger finger

I stood over a barrel filled with contagious cousins

A gigantic glass elephant stood guard

Where metal detectors go to be inflated

A trail of melted departures runs into petrified crops

It became a month of cloak and dagger intrusion

Wherever wandering hangs its translucent hat

I grew up with body buzz that doubled as a electrified fence

No one felt ready to be my bumblebee of innocence

A muddy parking lot collected a string of massive stones

I left a quirky tunnel vision at the sharpened end of American history

As an ascending gritty expression of roadside revenge pushed me

Toward the misty hieroglyphics of a glowing gummy salvation


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