ALICE IN AMERICA

Alice better drive her wet cunt faster than

Western Union Oklahoma horse hooves

Out into the night’s capital-letters

Alice better become a worse debtor

Fail better? Never! Alice better fail worse

Than the open letter Empire of letters

One better for the American settler

Last stop on the chain-letter

This psychometric Republic

Houses astronomic debtors

With geometric heads and aches

Get well Never get better Their optometrists

Housed in glass malls Their glasses

Concave Alice moves in convex debit card

Transactions Alice holding wet contracts

Is not convinced Alice with ripped contact lenses

Her pupils ripe Her flesh always object

Her asymmetric breasts toujours touched by men in charge

Skinned-knee Alice in a desert

Crosswind the woodwinds played on

Alice as drowned doll eyes and antique boots

When as a child she read the ship sunk

She felt the joy of wind-leapt trees

Burn everything Sink everything please

All eyes on the thick-skinned

Stockbrokers’ heaven a whirlwind

Of electronic devices the plane

In headwinds pressed on the continent

Bloody-minded the way women

Who are pressed into suburbs

Collapse the white supremacist minds

Of violent men who create

Money and ideas and dominance

Collision of passengers and jet fuel

A field of vision no less Parisian

Than communizing cell-division

Alice looks up each catastrophe

In her rhyming dictionary like a dying breed

Of Dionysian woman Like a convulsing town

Of complex strollers and baby cries and pesticides

From here on out, Alice, you must take sides

With your long-division

Autumn in Allah or Guatemala

In Golem Salem Gaza

Quebec in Caracas Dallas

In Oz In Hell there are fifteen synonyms for

Sex but only one word for the police force

There’s Alice climbing on top of a body

To forget all these wars and bullets

There’s Alice with Mutual Fund

Waldorf salads and alcohol

To ward off the inevitable toward

Alice,

My tome has come and yours will

Drone my time bomb My dollface My mask

Like a training drill or fire alarm or police baton

My passenger jet drones on the Black Dahlia’s

Severed head like a mirror that says

This is all women Cut in half in

Fourths in eights

With the magician’s wand

Alice, bombshell, babe, take my language

My genitalia and make

your bombed out bake sale

Break and rage glass poetry

Palaces into tatterdemalion

Oh Alice

Hold your dura mater close to

Your body of hot water

Make water like a squatter

Make gray water

Make red water

Make tonic water

Make whatever is berserk better

An iceberg or Gettysburg Make all your ideas

Address me