all the leaves are brown
commingled with rust and children's pennies
and a lot of other unmentionable things
drip like melon and lobotomized mouth
slobber like sloppy-joe for sloppy seconds
feral feline flips a flopping fluke
nutter butter
cock and bull
boners bong bon voyage bleck
madness, smile at the customers and entertain your silly little pipedreams
as the licorice sticks melt into each other in the big green jar on the counter
the tree by the kitchen window sways in the breeze
but the breeze is an action figure with gummed up joints
protruding and pleasant in the palm of my eye
in the palm in the palm in the palm
belch bench!