April 23, 2007

The Man With the Piano Wire Mustache

Vintage string instruments played a mournful dirge.
Another shit hole town full of dusty applause.
Under the newest laws the punishment for smiling is
Death. This also goes for smirking or any mouth twitch.
Entertainment went from baroque music to these
Vile acts of genital acrobatics and flatulence.
In the cobblestone street a mustached man groans.
Lithe pickpockets swarm the injured and inebriated.
Long nailed ragtime junkies polish their trombones.
Eyes smile slyly in the stomach of the darkness.

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