Beyond The Drywall

from The New Uncertainty by Scalpy Gonzales

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A print of a classic I don’t need to see
an industrial heater from the most chipper of security states
the perfect little caucasian face peeking out as an electric socket
into the pre-delivered promise of linoleum, fluorescence and chlorine

Her little bushy tale tangled up back in god knows what
The hollow behind the plaster I’d rather take for granted
I hear there are rats back there, and I can picture a long dead laborers’ bandaid
It’s all That old dusty unconscious that closes in on the serene like a gas leak

A marble of neighborhood life hums against my little window
Mother tongues and manic ice cream trucks whistling “nothing to see here”
Little kids that grew up around weekly unspeakable violence
And a band so dreamy they’re completely silent

I love the camaraderie of existence, the pride in the outer layer
that we just dangle our feet in history to flirt beneath the table
and that we need not even mention that it’ll all be different later
I love the “where does that leave me” the “what the hell else is there to do”
the “close your eyes and dance, kid, it’ll all be over soon”
i love the red inside your eyelid, always the sun, sometimes the moon
a band nodding so slightly in the center of the room

I remember the hostilities of nature’s smallest, sharpest teeth
they nibble at me when I’ m having a bad night
Long ago traversing her most inspired expressions of gravity
In an earnest caravan of seventeen pigs

I recall sitting on the dry tongue, dissolving on the edges
disgusting, sure, but it couldn’t spit us out with the doctor standing right there
and it couldn’t choke us down in a drought.
so it twitches tearing up in embarrassment and a perverted lust for science
in a band so good they’re completely silent

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from The New Uncertainty, released August 9, 2016

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