Benjamin James Lancaster

to enjoy eating odes, me

 

and my neon germ nephew

 

secreting marquee quotations,

 

steal an alysis and an alogy

 

down to jerk-bile lake

 

and with microscopic oars

 

jolt and erode this joy

 

 

 

the apes by the banks

 

feasting and grooming and mating

 

mock our intense intents to interpret

 

so diverted we pass, dissecting we fall

 

into traps buried in close reeds, but still

 

my neon germ nephew and I

 

alight on our filched float

 

 

 

our oars drag deep the sludge

 

and slime between the lime-

 

stones, drudging up dripping

 

chocolate-covered ant-egg nests,

 

which we scrutinize, analyze

 

test and taste for texture

 

then devour, digest

 

synthesize