Palpitations

The officer folds his newspaper in half
Shaking ten million galaxies from its surface

When he crosses his legs
He does not cross them on another plane

Our history is fiction inked by ancestors
Fending off the consequence of eternity

Two little girls braid time into a liquid metropolis
And also their hair

We are our own counterparts
A cement mixer brewing subversive philosophies

Stuck to the bottom of our shoe
What we create creates us

That goldfish bowl is emptied into a bathtub
Plastic coral is subsequently selected president

Effects and causes
Causing delirious affectations

The circus unravels into a meeting at city hall
Legislature votes on the virtue of a children's book

The illustrations of armless pools of gas
Folk dancing to the sound of quantum theories

Emitting from the iPhone of a nervous teen
Text messaging her best friend to meet her

For a milkshake on mount Fuji
The professor erases the blackboard

Corrects the students spelling through means of
Public humiliation

Chalk mingles with philandering antigens
Retreating into a plastic dustbin

Is remade nine hundred times into a musical
Performed in reverse

On a stage constructed from rocks
That will calcify in an unknowable yestermorrow

A pregnancy
An ice cream cone

A Rocking chair on a strangers front porch
The squalor of state examinations

Contemplated by a pilates instructor
Assassinating herself in a municipal parking lot

That will never be built due to lack of
Proper permits signed by the county clerk

And his Zebra