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Nude Falling Down Staircase (Free verse) by zodiac
(How we do art â)
Coming from sex or going to fetch pie
from the plate on the table for someone
whoâs already asleep, having forgotten
asking for pie, you trip over the dog,
and you, the dog and you, go tumbling down,
thinking â the human you now â so now Iâm
a motion-study, futurism for dummies,
cue laugh-track: zhe outraygeous waiter tips
the desert-cart, cannolis, crème-puffs spilling.
So youâre breaking up, having gone downstairs
to get desert, mister or missus head
knee elbow nipple balls sex made all-one,
now grunting spiraling air-thrusting thinking
if I had wings Iâd touch feather-light down
on the landing, Iâd bring this on a plate
for you to smile at, rubbing the sheet between
your legs. But what of that? Then thereâs no man
or girl waiting above, there are no sheets
to rub, no love-smell, thereâs no landing, either,
and only the waked dog eating your pie.
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