The Standards Board prohibits angular projections
It’s a beef therefore to parse my earliest memories
Chess for example evinces subterfuge
What they call a spanner we call enlightenment

My uncle was a better dry cleaner than I
I can vaguely perpetrate his arrival at the gates of Salerno
Site of the cannery and of traumatic brain injury
My stitching and unstitching fall a little short

It’s never a simple matter of unmotivated pool shots
Nor of settling accounts with a slipstick
A uniformed schoolgirl stacking the aphorisms
A priest releasing the lasso

Possessive with the gerund you dolt
The commission prohibits peering above the transom
The reef is deadly but beautiful
How did they do that trick with the traffic cop

The assessments are wildly disorganized
A poodle imitates a pear
Salesmen’s wives apply calipers to printed circuit boards
Wild swans negotiate the battlements

Regulations prohibit allusion to the Eiffel Tower
The conjunction belongs in the next echelon they say
But Frederick Douglass is more than an assemblage
A pistol more than merchandise

Will somebody please catalogue these receipts
The albatrosses the colorful neutrinos
Will somebody help that man with the twisted neck
Never mind his attempt to scoot in an Alfa Romeo

I want to divest myself
But I’ve forgotten the decrypter
I’ve inscribed a million signatures
Daily riposted a ten-foot sphynx

I want to tour the shores of Illyria
To see the immemorial portico
To engage the factors of the digital drive
I’ve always wanted a real cape to fly with

A young wastrel died unremembered
Or in memory lasting but as long as the flames
24 FPS is an illusion
Men in overcoats smuggle medication