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When Mermaids Sing

Call upon your muse, but should she respond
Beyond a ventriloquism … Explosion!
The sonnet will not hold; move to a space, beyond,
To a liminal place. An alchemist implosion:

poem one

It’s an immaculate metonym for a filthy system -
The crisp suit dresses a fat flesh
Bubbling through the buttonholes pulled to their potential
But they will never burst.