Mr. Q? (is the truth)
(with flowers sprouting from his midnight-skin
zang boots)
in a red blue red yellow purple pink loop suit
- gift from space/time travellers'
radio signals,
inkatharsis
scrawled
letter-patterns -

he plays a guitar to paint the songs,
blow harmonica spattered dots, and spider notes
sprayed
in vertical columns (fixed shimmering
in) the fraggle-hair sky holding
reckless angels
123ing across matted metacanvas(es?)
winking thought-eyes at our soul-deep
singer-soul of Mr. Q?

making the wild ride floating his ballooon
to suburban New Moon
City
(the green ghetto space sprawledin)
skyscrapers and spiderwebs;
It's intricate tai chi he walks through
junk seeking salvation
in the eyes of gypsy cats

collects paint powders beneath
sweeping shadows and stage lights with
(the balloon parked in a faraway corner)
and Mr. Q?
clown-faced smile stretching
cheeks,
a ladybug electrode sucking on his face
(like a cybernetic teardrop)
implanted
on his eyeball edges. His only addiction
(every artist has one)
= data in his tearduct
informainlining.


He has to go
somewhere (!)
you can't follow
- I have to get out of here. -
He says to his shadow.
This ingested information eats
the imagination.
Goodbye: The walking carnival
footstep rhythm
boots tap
down unfound exit streets
tap tap
the leaving legacy of Mr. Q?

Andrew Penland

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