Subj : The Mannequin Smiles
To   : ALL
From : STEVE KEMP
Date : Tue Sep 19 2000 07:13 am

The Mannequin Smiles 
by Rocco Flamefart and the Ultimate Death-Trip Chinese Icebox Jug Band
(recited to white noise, intermittent sirens, and slow hammered anvil)


Five slender bones with rings and nails fall out of a coat sleeve..
hung with anger

Electrodes implanted produce unfeeling smiles
Mind snapping energy surges and subsides
A string hung from a tooth swings to the beat of a metronome
The white mannequin faces stare through plate glass windows

Hard, dark, ivory-like pins pierce a rosy tit of fabric...
cold like satin.

To fast Latin rhythms, a baby dances on a red felt table.

A mannequin smiles with impotence...
shooting sapphire bullets of pure love 
through a hole in the fence,
down a wrought iron fire escape,
into gramma's oatmeal

Protein surprise on grey oats...
dipped in opium chipped from her cheeks

Tears fall
Moisture on used tissues
Gramma turns to ash
Her rocking chair turns to firewood
Dentures in the sink look rancid

A perfect mannequin smiles and shakes with laughter

A perfect mannequin smiles and shakes with laughter

A perfect mannequin smiles and shakes with laughter


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