riptide

potable
better flat scan the vegetables
because this coterie is
soon to be
a carbonated hoax

         and soon to have its temporary
         moon revoked

by a mutiny of clowns
in their quaint, chthonic bubbles
worshiping a pantheon of derelict machines

   but weaklings also have their dreams …
of bending light fantastic
and conquering the candy-coated
pseudo-plastic stream

ostensibly oblivious/flotsam fed to hungry seas