Stumble

If you entertain

several ideas all at once,

inviting suspicion

to arrive early,

one by one by one-

their unshut traps

will go hogging down

the crowded line

of carefully undone appetizers.

The tallest mouth

eating at the front.

A standing example

of why single-filed

thinking never hosts parties,

where opposing guests

having had one too many

hasty words,

wrongly drunk

on sloppy opinions,

warrant the quiet removal

of obscene skirting caught

in the panties

of a loose lampshade,

dancing with Mr. Simpleton's husband,

as the Missus slurs enraged complexities!

Anstey -
My favorite of all the poems of yours I read today. The opening lines are killer.

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