Syllogistic

I.



Self-deception police wear red



slippers and yellow suits Comet-gliding



through rain Nodding diplomatically to the dog, never acknowledging



you Hiding parking tickets in side mirrors, bovine



contortions as you chew, the trapeze-like idiocy



of your laugh Arraigning you for existential



exhibitionism: to engage in philosophical despair



II.



publicly. The how of mind



misinterpreted as the what Hypostatizing



why Deleting the unparticular



from the person, the unmotivated act



from matter Green-eyed howling



stranded in the howl Either instinct



or speech inside the un-self-knowing violet-barred



III.



God-cell. The origin of skepticism



in the recurrent sprawled-by-the-heater



dream in which Kafka is the mailman and the mail



is your mother Appears again the slaughterer



of perspective and mood, the categorical



rejection, the eternal human ironed



and exported Hanging like community service



IV.



from your father’s coat hanger. Solitary



suppression of reality, antidoting



mystifications of the girl you used



to know the girl you never knew



the introjected girl picking violets Peering



through chain-link vivisection The girl



converted into self-discipline and logic, metaphorical



V.



God-fearing dogma. The tame in us murders