FREAK SCENE
brother uses glue
juicy like citrus
dizzy like jazz
a lack of buzz
eyes individual
shelves too high
to climb I make
a list of things
I need to get
past like curses
curdled and
complicit in
fear of saying
stupid things
I stutter step
on my mark
goes for glow
midsize model
monsters like Frankenstein’s creation yes I am too sensitive to light
at night The Late Late Show features baroque grotesques I count
Dracula for one Mr. Hyde as two I think I’m three days shy of
seven the first time I see the Creature from the Black Lagoon
like brittle film stock
sound tracks the way
I feel burned by being
on the outside looking
in takes solace when I
see a music-fest freak-
scene in Chicago every
July goes by the name
Pitchfork not Prufrock
