Is it better inside the
Life-in-the-Box
the Jack-in-the-Box with
no keys and no locks: because
Jack is boxed by
something intangible.
Not that simple.
You can’t put your hands around
Mary’s Holy dirigible crashed underwater
filled up with water
housing a mermaid of feverous
neurosis.
Boxed in by water-pressure:
It’s a work-out
for Jack
to pop out of the box.
Water weighs more than neurotic mermaids.
“Down w/ the mermaids!
They belong underwater!”
So push them under
away from the thunder/and the light/
and deprive them of oxygen
and legs
and keep them Holy
and in perfect boxes--for you.
Like Jack.
-clw
11-22-16
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