{"id":8595,"date":"2014-12-15T09:00:01","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T14:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/home\/?p=8595"},"modified":"2014-12-19T21:33:27","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T02:33:27","slug":"the-portrait-of-dr-cenotaph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/the-portrait-of-dr-cenotaph\/","title":{"rendered":"The Portrait of Dr. Cenotaph"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"cenotaph\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The soul’s departure from the body is prearranged; a token of gratitude
\nfor hosting the rabble, ruse and giving toasts to the crass, amused
\nThe rotary bladder screws were supposed to be fastened, tuned
\nto an engine-metal cast in a steel-cased projection
\nBless these rental caps from the free-baser dentist
\nMeet the portrait of Dr. Cenotaph, and his real grave expression
\nHeel raising tension – if you feel shaken, lessen
\nthe locomotion of death: the wheels made the flesh grim
\nAn evening with Voltaire, the more absinthe, the easier I fared
\nThe ‘stand up for yourself’ concerto – my tailbone beat me to the stairs
\nand shuffled all the way to a mausoleum in need of serious repairs
\nDon’t be needlessly embarrassed, since an outstretched psalm
\ncan go out on a grotesque limb & reach toward the cloud drenched fog
\nAnima mundi masks contrast with the greenest meadows
\nmending the heartstrings of Dali clocks and bleeding cellos
\nThe physical’s an instrument – the stimulus is the will to question
\nBombastic plague lands turned to monastic playgrounds; acrylic dust bins
\nAdults would rather avoid the smiling cadaver while the children bump him
\nbut actually being closer to the essence, does he feel what love is?
\nVillains rush in with antidotes and thrills of sustenance
\nA pianist’s nimble fingers weren’t built to hunt with
\nKidney transplant costlier than the final bill for Sputnik
\nAs a result, every astronaut’s a dead man who’s feeling gutless
\nSketch up the Kierkegaard flight manuals, set aside deposit slips
\nGenocide is bottomless, exorcise what knowledge is
\nChills up your proverbial spine from the Seven Tribes of Novelists
\nTuskegee airmen took a wrench to my sarcophagus
\nand pulled out a number of diseases that petrified biologists
\nI identified my targets as viceroy relics, slain or shot
\nBriefcase in ghastly hand, I took a one way train ride to psychedelic Shangri La
\nand snail-mailed Zyklons to every trite Tibetan banker bloc
\nThe soul can’t take leave from the body when the destination’s uncertain
\nLife’s a science project – a teenage assimilation of versions of events
\nA falsely estimated assertion that may differ in each country
\n– it’s no wonder the skeleton of our generation speaks bluntly<\/p>\n

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Erik\u00a0<\/span>Moshe<\/span>\u00a0is an Airforce veteran and college student who is currently working on his second poetry collection called “Vulgar Fables”. Find more of his work at\u00a0<\/span>TheCentersphere.yolasite.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The soul’s departure from the body is prearranged; a token of gratitude
\nfor hosting the rabble, ruse and giving toasts to the crass, amused
\nThe rotary bladder screws were supposed to be fastened, tuned
\nto an engine-metal cast in a steel-cased projection
\nBless these rental caps from the free-baser dentist
\nMeet the portrait of Dr. Cenotaph, and his real grave expression
\nHeel raising tension – if you feel shaken, lessen
\nthe locomotion of death: the wheels made the flesh grim<\/p>\n

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