stone monkeys chirp 

from around the corner   sneak salvation

from bums and hucksters

media dogs bark their incessant bark

while nativists snap their fingers

bulgar wheat and cinnamon toast 

feed the merry and the merry

ride the ferris wheel   catatonic bellboys

don sombreros   do cartwheels down the hallway

at the chateau marmont  

and the green grass grows all around all around

blades of diamond sever

what's left of life   then pass the buck

to fallen trees   zipporah dozes

in her lazy-boy while moses arranges flower in a vase

saint john's wort and marigolds

nip and tuck    members

of the kkk suck on rabid rattlers' teats  

crowning tomorrow's festival of blight   sewing notions

in field of soot   harbingers

of clothes lines cut from tenement stoops

white sheets aflutter in the breeze

fall below on monkeys

made of stone that chirp their wares and dance