Granulomas of the Gods A Through M

"One Trues Three Trues Two 'n' Four"
Ulysses Poe
chemical marker on
paper sculpture photographed 
and digitally modified

A’s for Ariadne 
and her adolescent acne.

One array resembles Agassi. 
(Does one ape Clement Attlee...?)

B's a broken Bacchus 
bearing blackheads on his back ‘cuz

of hormonal lack of balance. 
(One blotch calls to mind Jim Backus.)

C’s for the Charybdis. 
With its crater’d cicatrix --

plus crustaceous cysts and cankers – 
‘twill succeed in politics.

D's declaiming Demeter, 
like A does armadillos.

(Her armadillesque dermatitis 
mimics Don Delillo’s.)

Eros (with an E) 
enjoys an eczema-sheath’d pelvis.

The eruptions of this eyesore…? 
Eyed as emulating Elvis.

Flails F-initial’d Flora, 
“With our flamens here beside us,

we’ll say ‘F**k you’ to our flaws 
and cure this foul folliculitis.”

Greeks have gorgeous goddesses. 
Among those gals is Gaia.

She’s got gout and gonorrhea 
(mispronounc'd as ‘gonorraia’).

H is not for Hecate. 
Here, H initials Hera.

Hera’s hives (I’ll overlook her hickies) 
mirror Yogi Berra.

Iris has her imperfections. 
One is ichthyosis.

Sev’ral sores she sports resemble Cher's -- 
or so’s my diagnosis.

Jupiter’s got jock itch. 
This Olympians acknowledge.

His contagion fills the chem lab vault 
at Carcinoma College.

Kratos and his fellows 
bear a common keratosis.

His resembles Pink. 
(He’s treating it with painful self-hypnosis.)

Lethe’s “Lady Lumps.” 
She harbors loads of lacerations,

look-a-likes for Liberace. 
(Please don’t go and tell the Thracians.)

The moles may mask 
Mnemosyne’s malaria awhile,

but eventually it's forced to fade: 
her Mona Lisa smile.

(The rest of the alphabet to come: a work in progress)