College Health, II & III

 I. Nutrition on the Bus (dern blog won't allow lay-out - columns)

II. Infernal Recess

Vernal Recess from infernal pit-cess
of all-night pizzafaces
Student debauchville, studless,
won’t neigh for two weeks
with loudmouths gone
Donut kids won’t steal my bus
on caffeine-kinked mornings

I pedal in peace on my icy cycle
gliding through the silent town,
the quiet glee of March snow,
as work-days come and mirk-nights go

Skunk hash scents the sidewalks
next to Knuckleheads
where the leisure poor make space for talk
and lift each other’s loads

Credit kids have flown to Cali
Knuckleheads are gone – Scram
Student screams are caged
in Florida folly

Baby rashes are scratched
with counterfeit rations on beerhead beaches

III. Schooled Blight

The noisy brats have blown town
Their dustcloud lingers low
down the emberdraft of wind

University manfactory
manufactures malaise

Springbreak, supposéd repose,
breaks springbuds
like an elephant’s hose

I throw a party for myself
Cook sardines in coconut, garlic, basil, salt and lime
with pablano peppers
Rocket and kale rock with tomat O, avocad O, onion O,
          axed flax, sage
Vampire, entrancing Transylvanian wine,
volubly envelops my throttle

The fake health of youth
is manufactured by malefactors

Outside whines the winds
fallen by sixty degrees,
a blight to the buds
Foodmakers yield less, yearly,
while plenty plummets
Piles of money buy less
as capital’s decapitated,
headless in the ashes
     Dollars to squalor
             Members to embers
                    Nickels to pickles
                             Quarters to Morte ore
                                     Dimes dust of time
                                            Bills paper pills