The popcorn is greasy, and I forgot to bring a Kleenex.
A pill that's a bomb inside the stomach of a man inside
The Embassy blows up. Eructations of flame, luxurious
cauliflowers giganticize into motion. The entire 29-ft.
screen is orange, is crackling flesh and brick bursting,
blackening, smithereened. I unwrap a Dentyne and, while
jouncing my teeth in rubber tongue-smarting clove, try
with the 2-inch wide paper to blot butter off my fingers.
A bubble-bath, room-sized, in which 14 girls, delectable,
and sexless, twist-topped Creamy Freezes (their blond,
red, brown, pinkish, lavender or silver wiglets all
screwed that high, and varnished), scrub-tickle a lone
male, whose chest has just the right amount and distribution
of curly hair. He's nervously pretending to defend
his modesty. His crotch, below the waterline, is also
below the frame - but unsubmerged all 28 slick foamy boobs.
Their make-up fails to let the girls look naked. Caterpillar
lashes, black and thick, lush lips glossed pink like
the gum I pop and chew, contact lenses on the eyes that are
mostly blue, they're nose-perfect replicas of each other.
I've got most of the grease off and onto this little square
of paper. I'm folding it now, making creases with my nails.
May Swenson
1913-1989
