Daniel Hall

DREAMS AND WISHES

The streetlights shone
and cold air blew
a tired and lonely happiness
onto my bed.

Happiness slid into dream.
I joined my future bride and yesterwife
and knew our impending love
when our bodies entwined and flew.

daylight popped
last night's floating helium wish,
but the dream
buried itself inside.

THE SOUTH ROSE AGAIN
husbands fought and died
and lost legs and arms
to save children and dames.

limbless husbands,
unable to farm,
kluxed to save children and dames.

confederate dames funded
a tall marble construct
to honor the husbands
who left them to care
for children and farms

confederate dames
raised the phallus
of the dead and limbless saver.

ANTIRECONSTRUCTION BETSY ROSS
the pale rider's wife
sews a beard onto
and a groin bulge into
the holy sheet
and elevates her husband
with platform heels
and a pointie hat.

CRUCIFIX
the radio preachers
wish the romans used crucifixion
as a means to terrorize the underclass.
it's not so though.

pilate didn't want to kill jesus.
he couldn't believe the pharasies
wanted his death.
pilate let the people choose
whether barbarus, a murder, or jesus, the blasphemer
shall be freed.
the people, under the sway of the pharasies,
expressed their preference for the freedom of Barabus.

the death penalty
is always a terrorist toy
of the lesser sovereign. always.

THINGS OF VALUE
zinc toed tiny value
and issued copper canteens
to ration death to rational death.

brand old circulates today.
thing of excess value.
clinks a little higher.
quite a bit brighter.

paper worth less than pallid tiny.
worthless paper because tiny won.

a war time penny, confederate paper and a silver dime.

TARA
sweet sister terra
low southern sona.
blonde bangs in sera.
halter atop pierced innie.
tight blue curves
and sandals show red tone.

weekend buttonless--
fright skin surf in overwaves.
hyperflow.

ORDER REGOTTEN AND GIVEN BY NEXT MILLENNIUM'S GOD - ORIGINAL INTUITION
an apple fell
on a guy's head
while
a salt drop splashed
in a guy's eye
straiting the globe.

HONEST ABE'S PERFECTED FORGET
absent parents.
grandpa to care.
scolds the girl for leaving scissors
and watches her redrop them.
grandpa yells...and forgets.

boy puts out the slipnslide
over rusty scissors
and sprinkles on the lawn.

Grandpa recalls and reyells
as the boy runs.
boy, scared,
slipped and slid into fresh red gush.

rusty abe scissored the kid.

WORDS OF BLESS'D NEW ANCIENT CURS'D CAYNE
I work through degree'dly less grey dim and veil. jet now freshly
burst into brilliant
beyond the dark sack of faithless and self. Real easy a sell to a
planner and planter-- kept
with dead men and sluts in the bunkhouse elevated into a share with
brother and sister. I
know so little and want your wide blue.

SOUTHERN SELLER
I met the most pathetic creature
in the capitol's artbar...

beautiful leather briefcase,
pea-green salvation army suit,
bifocals in thick dark frames,
and a boil-scarred complexion.

The squealing and drawling special guy
styled open his treasure case
into a junk fountain sale
of greasy combs and half-used toothpaste.

I proceeded to cue
that most pathetic creature
to the artwall.

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