MEMORIES OF A PERFECT GENTLEMAN

a door is opened/ but that's not it/ no/ rather/ a door is closed/ but that's not it/ either/ no/ rather/ a window is shut/ feet are healed/ tongue peeled and sliced//

edible mythologies digested/ lips/ moistened shut by phantom muscle/ the syntactic pried open/ "imagining him"/ "we might have met on bullet train between paris and marseille"//

it had already begun with air/ breathmade addicts/ awaiting sinister revolutions/ changes in illogical system fabric/ ink blot chasing pattern in translucent bloodstream//

a door is held open/ the cat flap of perception/ no/ rather/ the elevator of rationality/ "she arrives without presents"/ to a jester's court room/ and the king awakens/ with pointless erection/