Adventure Trip

 

Tumbling Dice (Adventure Trip Series) 56 x 42 cm mixed media on canvas by Karin Goeppert

TUDORIAL

Glass tower, castle

holding pattern riveted

to sky, dominant, cock

like in which a cohort of courtiers

crunched by numbers, drunk on work

glances ceiling-ward as if sixth  

century monks wondering what God is 

up to in His corner office. Down the street

and tucked deeper than you can take  

in between wedges of sushi and 

designer doodads a delightfully 

frigid martini attached to a girl’s hand

sweats. A bar of soap smells like sex

and the squash court is essence of fake musk

a headhunter’s gooey patter the patois

on toast today. “You’re toast, sucker.”

Stuck in the middle of traffic far as the eye   

can detect is red. Green is not the color of money

by the wayward. Green does not mean Go

at all: get a new passport, hopscotch over to Mexico

and from there on to parts less known: that’s what it means.

Better: unless you have jail in mind don’t do it

bro lest the chopping block be thy head’s final rest.