Never Level

by Nicholas Alti

The sheer damn brilliance=====There couldn’t exist touch======minimal, barely

a waxy drizzle runs through======mucus on cave rock=====You painted Your Own

Dead Body======Doldrums, bloody dumb of=======Twas a decent sort of===Your

better at this====at this sort of===thing===finding love while damned====leaning out

from the stone balcony===I’m more tawny port tipped on the lawn===organ bucket=

fluid sucked from the cranium and stuck in the syringe======I taught the devil how

to teach guitar====I crash my car====I crash your car=====pout at the party====Give

Over Your Own======= sorry little carnation======The astounding radiance====Not

noticeable====You’re better than this======better you than===The body was found

in a cloud====Do you recognize this noise===This gross scarf===These simple wishes

classic case====corpus Christi sans corpus delicti=====erodes each painted speck==

I pool you in my ladle====Used to cauterize====Worship you like a long dead thing