The T.V. Verdict
©2002 Peter Magliocco
Your immaculate flesh: illuminated, kneaded
by sundry merchants, bold glad-handers
became etched — even cremated
in glued anuses of Vision ...
Could we
bridge untruth,
&
salvage True Lust —
as “not seen” on Court T.V.?
Your hair, luxuriant
wrapped around me
(binding the vagrant heart)
enslaved map-like purple veins
of the divorce lawyer’s writ.
Tourniquet-like,
your fertile talents bound
& gagged, silencing thought:
or your camcorder’s silent vows)
while the omnipresent
video judge administered
the verdict depicting
situation comedies' last rites
THERE like an unloved relic
semi-arisen
my best part sprung free
into freeze-frame: a Still
Life … of undying love
your legal autopsy
failed
to
cut-off