Planktone Tango (Take 2)

Just the light pissing of rain
with California plates
inside a pearl gray aquarium lit
by pale flickering neon
The whispered denial the speck of blood
clipped from an ancient text (the future
started yesterday maybe ended the day before
as I recall yr shadowheart slamming the door & the wind
lifted as the clouds thinned out an almost lucid rendition
years of song & palm trees
I couldn’t imagine it any other way
a nail driven like a shot of tequila thru the back of your head
whoever you are mistaken for
gull wings slashing the last rays of sunlight
that the end hath given
might have been coiled in an improbable spanglish curse
I never checked the reference but Baudelaire or Joe Strummer
& a few steps away from the wavy thick green depths
to which love exaggerates in evolutionary terms
listening without really listening
smoking a recombinant Martian cigarette craving
the weight of her breasts