ROCOCO BOKONON – Jason Wambeau
February 10, 2026
I shut my cupped palm flat-form over my one good ear,
lean supersonic into the interchange-overpass
highway of my body audio & sense pouring forth fresh off
my fashy boy scout swimsuit shindig lunacy a bubbling newborn
rumor from the skinny thing I loved who said to me I love your name here
who now from all awful oft-haunted unmerry
teal metallic steely shrieked in crumpled loose-leaf
that in an honesty too long resisted sensed in me
an immutable cringe, a projected faux intimacy
unshakably foreign and to make not what of. And who won’t see it like that. Or can’t…
But all that’s beautiful who do, all who scare up as evidence miracles debunked,
feral Albuquerque incarnate, feral phoenix unglossy obtuse,
crossing infants off to-do lists,
Realizing shit… where
wherever you could stay be made
example of, to litany of ~
or single fragment fair designed
disqualify you from
the promised fields o loving little mercies…
unto serene visual surgery in thee negative heavy
yellow cloud hovering Thank You and That Would Be Great
beside the donkey draped in bright floral quilts who believe
they are television and have convinced many.
But I can really have nutrition too, whispers to itself
the rebel donkey, a radical decree of pride, in tiny might,
from harmless poverty, feeling out ‘til leaning on an inner gruff…
Fifty states? it asks the scribe. Fifty states, the scribe
responds, recording. Daytimes in Nevada? asks the donkey.
Daytimes we can count on, speaks the scribe instead
in silken brownrobe humble hood his unbefuddle into leaves
beside the tiny sprites whose job it is
to tally up the mysteries too few have witnessed
who journey seedlessly along the wind
with jewelled codes internal { & blue-plated armor its arboreal calligraphy, }
no, …from with our blueprints of Yore Hour o oO Our Queen bBarbara, si donkey
like. sprites alight on oars, on shields, on shoulders & limes eking thee
seep-speaky, sleepy ease, sprinklingly: Impress upon
thees alfalfa a practical grace, & graze their wispy
tendrils trace upon, & unto surfaces of ponds (upon) I will you this,
I leave you thus… I see you centuries at least alas… in So on
In low shrubberies, & moist in most in
mosey moats n notes in house & if in mine & is thy own
Aloud afloat. Aboard. Amen. A roundabout abode. A boat.