skeleton dance at the end of the world

poverty measured on

a sliding scale

in 3/4 time

tripping

over wrists and fingers

slick red

cigarette paycheck

dead ends &

breathing delusions

he showed a smile

held up

with constitutional

fish hooks exposed

garlic-bulb teeth

destined for

(what is

)the new

silk road

podium platform-

heel-slam-poetry-

political

destinations

dig furrows through

years/

salted fields &

create modern

phrenology

when did I

pay

for two

left feet ?