It's the salesman's pitch
There could be in your future
mannered fulfillment

If it be revenge
they make them available
if that's what you want

So fancy (says he)
to be like something not seen
some century gone

minor arrangement
Latin technicality
deferred fulfillment

One must stress (says he)
this homuncular sales force
not just some big words

What itch (says he) can
we scratch what strikes your fancy
You pick the tickle

The True Religion
There could be twelve centuries
past the decision

We might have talked more
more at the expense of self
more to each other.

We may be allowed
not certain who would decide
who we solicit.

We could just expire
let the inevitable
let time run its course.

We could simply wait
write out our survival list
desert island discs.

We would be able
if we had followed the steps
if we had the book.

If there is a book.
Ah, we should be so lucky.
Sorry, it's a joke.

We, well I, might not
assuming the end result
equally random.

a receipt bookmark
left in a box through three moves
found a paperback

the answer was there
below coffee table books
under a blanket

six o'clock phone, call
advantage, by two doors down
early, saves the day

this is to live for,
free drugs, friendly faces, tips
a job, ain't a job

not two syllables
commute, hop, skip, commute, jump
another paycheck

up since six o'clock,
this is in love with the world,
drugs and friends for free

jessica, maybe,
her little sister's nosering
before those were cool

Okay, I admit

I am not okay.

Why, life is grander
by far than previously

In a manner of speaking

beside the radiator

"This is my dinner"
with italics on the "is"

Wow, I just got tired.

Perhaps this is exactly
as you described it.

patient period
evil element error
rebellion retained

madness medicine
answers affected and all
not not animal

element edged each
nightmare nothingness tension
tours thoughtless tragic

all goes ill ages
number engravings naked
doctor diseases

origin outside
victory arbitrary
eliminate time

reason implicit
relating lira (furrow)
assistance authorities

temptation first phase
entirely smells of old book
doubtless a Foucault

exigencies, and
spell-checker indigence, and
face recognition

exhumation, and
novel itemization,
and return to form

expatriate, and
near inveterateness, and
success retardant

expedient, and
ineradicable, and
reprobatory

experience, and
"you" identification,
and retrieval speed

execration, and
passing interference, and
poor recreation

extrapolate, and
infrequent-as-a-verb, and
redirect to home