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2008
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Chris Crittenden

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 Summary

he flails in a nurturant sphere,
kicking every vein.
he escapes and waddles,
brays and cockadoodles,
until a sloppy word
slings off his tongue
into an aural bull's-eye.

he mutates as he speaks,
sobbing then elated,
serene yet monstrous,
injected by pituitaries.
he brags and postures,
guns a chevy, fidgets against
the crux of a girl.

then life's two parts suburb,
five parts chain.
stress and boredom take turns
grinding him against chores.
worries rush through
his pancreas
until he's frazzled and grizzled,
a mellowed stump of cocky banana
whose peel once had wings.

he placates his grandchildren,
chortles when they say he's great-
when death and age are merely stains
on the stretching agenda
of his glory.



 Chris Crittenden