A heartbroken table and chair

or a tale entire
made of a name
said and again
as names are cartoons.

That is, to tell the story
with a sequence of pictures.
How the defunct
recruits new meaning.

Your reference in disarray
and what,
the same code,
but subtracted to

specific fraction.

*

And these furnishing
make arrangement of what
was otherwise--

Can the word

of a kiss paste
splinters back into form
or fro--
as the host gestures toward

the ghost seat where
ghost cups offer up
real steam.     And steam

sings effectively
by hiss's repetition.

*

Ghosts choose always
to plagiarize--
the chair furnishing
the table.

The fey rumble
of the bargain
'led you down the paving
to the neat.'

How eagerly the correspondence
lapsed. And overblown,
a few more lines
curved

or angled.
Rhymes meant to assuage, save one.

*

Now you threaten
with chair and table
the full kindness
of the solid.

As these young groves
lost among clapboards
and wailing, farting
at the horrified and fickle:

'tho I stand tall grow into ugliness'
that dark relief,

and caning all rotten
where the air

hitches your arse
'and it not returned.'

*

Other things, not chair
simply, and the simpleton
surface on which to put
a mug:

As faces do drink
and this supply
has its canted
inventory,

if fact could
adhere to that countenance
which does
swallow.

Slopping over the flat surface
to the curs, open-mouthed, beneath.