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The Brain As List

The brain as intestines
The brain as smokerings
As intensity As smoked herring
As the power of the will
Every picture has four corners
Except it be oval since special
It goes down easier
Vanishes in decades
They streaked the classroom
And joggled in many memories
At ninety degrees to the normal
Meaning a musical tone
The brain qua factory
The brain as misprint
Problem solver Trouble shooter
Or causer The back of the woman
In haltertop him clinging to her
Out for spin on her scooter
The brain as front page
Of New York Times
The brain as Page Three
Of Sun or Post
To a literate virus host
Lighthouse Tollbooth
Chunnel Mousetrap
Hampton Court Maze
Complete with garbage
Swirling in his head
The brain in his cat's head
Does it look like a canopener
Or a couch or the cat next door
He's bored get him out of his head
Here's a slide of Waikiki
From three miles out to sea
Each powerful wave his last
Here's a shot of the mast
Rendered into slivers
Show it to his brain
It gives him the shivers
Hairs on the wrist rise
And unarmed leave the brain.