Punishment
Sentence
pronounced
with conviction
in mean terms,
this conjunction
of clauses,
punctuated hiccup-like
in pluralized
para form —
mishaphazardly
constructed,
misconceived
and misconstrued
singularly
— singularly,
I say,
passive voice
in the wilderness
of overlapping
sound bites
overwhelmed —
objection overruled! —
abjectly subject,
objectively speaking,
so to speak,
to predicating
phrases and polyglot
megapauses
both pregnant
and prolix,
plus to pedantics: prisoner to
a parenthesis:
’tween haunting
past participle
and future
(fast-closing
brackets
bruit and stress)
tense, taut, fear-fraught:
spells of substantively
dizzying declension;
nominally
a nightmare
engendered by
terminal trauma —
consonant with
figures of
speechless throated threat,
skulls a-grin
gerund-grim,
simile-less;
simian even:
syntax collectors,
all hyphens
and dire diphthongs,
accusative
and adenoidal
— no accidence,
then, this —
verbs parsed
and parcel
of present
pillory and pre-paid
post, voiced
and venting vomit
— vulgar expression
added verbatim —
ere colon
constipation,
yclept
comma-tose state,
dictates
full stop
— period.


