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"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)
