Metal

Enthusiasm is a silver tonic hot for teacher.
These candles flicker in the night. A bedspread
soaked with peach schnapps. Solve the most kinked doubt
with a unit built for speed marked GET OFF.
On a map the bits of color signify states.
I shall name them in the order of my awareness
of them, their names, not my arrival in the actual
places they represent. I mean nothing to you.
Let this all boil down to confusion, followed
by a shortness of breath, pacing, METAL MACHINE MUSIC
on REPENT, which masks the highway sounds
and helps devour RENE DAUMAL in my sleep,
even. A rosier tonic was never, or ever was.