Follow Vishal Dutia on WordPress.comDisguised in my mouth as a swamplandnailed to my teeth like a rising sunyou come out in the middle of fish-scalesyou bleed into gourds wrapped with red antsyou syncopate the air with lungs like screams from yazoolike X-rated tonguesand nickel-plated fingers of a raw ghost manand somewhere stripped like a whirlwindstripped for the shrine roomyou sing to me through the side face of a black roosterIn the morning in the morning in the morningall over my door like a roosterin the morning in the morning in the morningAnd studded in my kidneys like perforated hiccupsinflamed in my ribs like three hoops of thunder through a screwa star-bent-bolt of quivering colonsyou breathe into veiled rays and scented ice holesyou fire the space like a flare of embalmed pigeonsand palpitate with the worms and venom and wailing flanksand somewhere inside this feverinside this patinaed pubic and camouflaged slitstooped forward on fangsin rear of your faceyou shake to me in the full crown of a black roosterIn the morning in the morning in the morningMasquerading in my horn like a rivereclipsed to infantries of dentures of diving spearsyou enter broken mirrors through fragmented pipe spityou pull into a shadow ring of magic jellyyou wear the sacrificial blood of nightfallyou lift the ceiling with my tropical slush danceyou slide and tremble with the reputation of an earthquakeand when i kick through wallsto shine like silverwhen i shine like brass through crust in a compoundwhen i shine shine shineyou wail to me in the drum call of a black roosterIn the morning in the morning in the morninggonna kill me a roosterin the morningearly in the morningway down in the morningbefore the sun passes byin the morning in the morning in the morningIn the morningwhen the deep sea goes through a dog’s biteand you spit on the tip of your long knifeIn the morning in the morningwhen peroxide falls on a bed of broken glassand the sun rises like a polyester ball of mensesin the morninggonna firedance in the petroin the morningturn loose the blues in the funky junglein the morningI said when you see the morning coming likea two-headed twisterlet it blow let it blowin the morning in the morningall swollen up like an ocean in the morningearly in the morningbefore the cream dries in the bushesin the morningwhen you hear the rooster crycry rooster cryin the morning in the morningI saiddisguised in my mouth like a swamplandnailed to my teeth like a rising sunyou come out in the middle of fish-scalesyou bleed into gourds wrapped with red antsyou syncopate the air with lungs like screams from yazoolike X-rated tonguesand nickel-plated fingers of a raw ghost manand somewhere stripped like a whirlwindstripped for the shrine roomyou sing to me through the side face of a black roosterIn the morning in the morning in the morning
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