the watcher
i
involucral envy
even to the knife
invades me evasive
I avoid veniality
and vapors vacate
vacillating I vent
prevaricating and aver
television avoid like
elevator shoes in
Lilliputian savannahs
under the moving mower
ii
o winsome kid
they false honesty's
kind as glass
in a diamond ring
even certificated
by laser
digit on digit
for the firm festival
iii
the last gratuitous sin
crosses my desk
the publisher says
I print it why not
says he why not
out in Los Angeles
they'll never know the difference
and New York covers all bets
iv
o owner of transmissions
call thy prostitute
for an honest reading
of your business mail
answer this she says
let that one wait
don't answer that
in three neat piles
pointed out with nail polish
v
here is the void
at long last considered
in the total spectrum
of available wavelengths
that is free or
unencumbered
and not kept in fee
the baldric is the mainstay
of the zodiac
from the creeper pains stay
to the Kodiak