John Pursch- A Poem

Radio Reef Alibi

In a certified coming and going of elided scribblings

on memorized compartments of thought patrol incursions

to otherwise interpolated domains,

left stranded by potentially sanctimonious gooey dodderers,

flipped to beckoning secondhand basement floor plunderers,

smocked in bleached coveralls;

this is how lobotic surgery begins and often ends,

purporting to be a spate of the artless codger’s

phony intentions (herbivorous, to be sure),

waddling breathless and overeager

into suppurating sores of porous undertaker snorts,

hassling churchgoing heretics with alms requests

for albumin in radio reef alibi resort carafes,

flotation be crammed in sneezed comportment bellhop drift

of staggering cranberry walks up filling station urinals

and paginated treetop dizziness charades,

to lifelong lunacy in tic marauder melancholy

itch machine expulsion’s expository demitasse

of demolition burpee bungee humpback dotage

namesake placard wherewithal,

held high aloft in sacred acrimonious regard

for elfin telephone entirety.

John Pursch lives in Tucson, Arizona. Twice nominated for Best of the Net, his work has appeared in many literary journals. A collection of his poetry, Intunesia, is available at http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/whiteskybooks. Check out his experimental lit-rap video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l33aUs7obVc. He’s @johnpursch on Twitter and john.pursch on Facebook.