Oil and Water Don’t Mix by: Laura Fisher, Mixed media on canvas, 2012.
P.L.U.R.
by: Sarah Ehniger
Conceal a surface with an ivory matte
Package filth with fish nets and ribbons
Send a kiss to the shameful misrepresentation of a soul
The jezebel returns it from the looking glass
Initiate the advertising campaign
Call the supplier, process the goods
Subtract four from the profit margin
Chills form, the reaction to the flavor
Strike a match replacing one poison
Every aspect of the moments preceding euphoria, a drag
Descend into the cavern of parasitic hipsters
Where the gender signs on the restroom are irrelevant
Cut the same lady on the counters
Fondle the same sickness in the stalls
Weak minded scum so easily swayed
Distracted by the colors of the harder styles
Anatomy extends the invitations
As they orbit through galaxies of electric stars
Repondez, s’il vous plait to a wallet
The malicious missionary distributing pleasure
Bred innocence as a phoenix to chemical enslavement
Deny the existence of guilt or consequence
As the leviathan shadows the temptress below
Awaiting the homecoming celebration