Marigny Collins

The Great Wall of Elm Street in Dallas, Texas
text in italics is originally from Naked Lunch by William Burroughs

Cover claims independent business.
No swarms are neutral

                                                                  on Madison Avenue or Sai Yeung Choi Street
                                                                  in Mong Kok.
                                                                  Vicious rushing and crowding, hiding a

unthinkable, notorious suspect, secret grin.
Blooming cancer picks Dallas boots, hat
invisible glasses and wax

                                                                   to bring home to family and friends.
                                                                   Play “Cowboy.” Play “American.”

Immature currency can run.
Shyly a Mummy baby around them

                                                                    reminds them of cultures worse off
                                                                    than themselves because at least
                                                                    they die with honor.

Sally cured Texas oil

                                                                    with

Pure Drug, injected shiney eye with spots.

                                                                    Leaving everything coated in

black and undreaming invisible looks.

Enigmatic and larval,
English, Italian and Entrscan
investigators work international
operations, shifting
aliases. 23 deported proceedings

                                                                    kicking families from comfortable
                                                                    American couches back down to
                                                                    the cold floors of their forsaken homes

in Hong Kong.