Hosanna in the borderline cinderblock warehouse, as much applause
as possible to collapse inside an ambulance now that conveys
The intravenous bags and bottle holder, twenty-seven stones
from here to the Idyllwild to the gun fields
It’s a place you find automaton nurses who labor
in green-grey subterfuge, in all-over stripes
A round of punches to the lower jaw for my part in the main
so I get it now I’m the chosen one for reassignment
Face so altered as to beguile. This is enemy-convenient
a purview suitable to very new cosmetic methods.
Question is the admin diazepam and other hypodermics
were they counteractive or now consistent
With enough cases as to compel canvassers to anticipate
first signs of panic, sleepwalker antecedents
Tray tables in upright position, crushed ice out of open
mouth, air-conditioned ward redolent of superstores
And tattoo shops, or was it morphine sulfate in protocols
applied to disable the congenital twins?
Here’s the world news: to junk-science prizes wax-candy
lips intone a flawless if always accented sentence
The kind of talking from another world where my mother
was Marlo Thomas and there were rival techniques
Contributed to the celebrity of my seven-sided disappearance
or was that all my enuresis when I doubled in size
As from her pocketbook, adorable but already diminishing?