A Mother

recently slapped her baby
on a jet
after she was kicked.
Up the text
with sleepy icecube-grammar,
tongue-twisted wide-awake--
let the babies kick
the inward stomach!
Combat troops
are exiting Iraq,
painterly-fine
& is this what we
had expected? this
overhanging hum, slum
-bering against our hearts,
sea-crushed debris, queries
for seasons ahead.
Salmonella out
-breaks are like municipals
in the mouth, clung of
discrazed world
in a smeary nightmare;
O stiffened tongues
of a nation, pestilential
discharges are mostly
ungussy. Gusty
winds today, Mexico
under siege is not worse than
Before/Now Photographs
of celebrities.