ASPARAGUS VEINS

ASPARAGUS VEINS

A pork chop with distinguished Nietszche moustache
a large Stucco head with dried bacon skin
an old man dressed somewhat flowery in anchovy suit
with large bag of processed frozen peas taped
to his head somwhat arbitrarily, it being summer
lived, so it was said, in a large wooden sideboard
on the road outside his grandmother's house
and, what was more, was always to be found
in the second drawer
along with his socks
a revolver
a pigskin purse
a cabbage
a nose
nasal hairclippers
a bag of toenails
which he kept for sandwiches
a cup and saucer
a parrot's testicle
and finally
a
crowbar
with which he would scoop up dandruff