Meta- Orphans
Matthew Klane

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Meta- Orphans           The Gringo’s Pizzeria

rattles and zings.

Poets go crazy!

Pepper the Real               

w/ porphyritic beats.

Stray,

epileptic,

tequila daiquiris,

spill

into the streets.

Dancehall zombies

mambo-tango.

Quacking saxophones,

trick trombones,

abandoned

to the syntax

of chance.

 

           Sweating Bullets          You brood

in the backroom—

a moody mix

of politics,

alcohol,

and malaise.