L'éléphant Célèbes

after Max Ernst

 

Blow, big flanker, chiefly

down your jabot of alloy

and lampreys praise in the sky

who long to suck off – Ha!

 

Then jib, mighty hierophant,

at Art's peremptory finger–

till you decipher

how the brain-waived linger.

 

Pant upon the ocean shelf,

repudiative, inventive,

sexy as a hydrogen bus,

extremist, pensive.