Mountebank
innards laid out, divined,
bloodless cold tripe
that cast insight on the plight of
who?
these maladroit
broadcasts naught
but considered shite
a drama of the here and now
in as many acts
as you can swallow
just breathless gasping
in the vacuum-packed plastic
of this necrotic head
that tonight bleeds a deviant intramural
spring wash along ten brittle channels
jammed into veiny eyes shocked wide
at the pulsing cinnabar spread on the script
where drips the foul ledger of charges laid
squarely against , though each answered,
every one, singularly in third person text
as witness to their own prosecution
but at every objection perjured
must stomach the sentence and practice the tense