interdependence

Q & A

 

I need you, out there,

to ask the questions,

feed my liminal factory --

imaginal machinery set to

engineer exquisite ideas

in shrink-wrapped phrases.

Tell me your shame-held

secrets, fears that track you

in the night.

Let me meld them with

trenchant fairytales,

legends that recapitulate

on cable news, vibrant stylings

of the Blues,

surreal cartoons rendered by

Nietzschean travails.

Let me take this mess,

sprinkle with inchoate memories,

bake well at near 99 degrees

until the odor overtakes the air.

Now, open wide and taste

enchantment, if your questions

and my answers

meet and satisfy

each other's needs.

 

July 4, 2010