
Protector, by David Shrobe © The artist. Courtesy Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York City
I Imitate You
1960s newspaper clippings and teeth hang on a string—Like a book of life
I’m in the kitchen with my killer
Picking all the teeth out of a mouth harp
Cigarette-ing a pen
Calling Black Fire to prayer
With the mouth harp prepared:
Ladies and gentlemen: we know what you all are not doing.
Mainly you all are not leaving the universe to its childhood.
A church signals another church with mirrors and nose-drips
The spirit-world up and starts murdering city trees
Our psychic re-break
sleeping-in-my-car Sunday chores
allegory of new hard…