After a mysterious fog had descended on the city:
A bruised black hand with polished nails was found inside
the carcass of a fallen lamb,
Auntie Sue was photographed running naked over rooftops
in her frilled & flowered Easter Bonnet,
A man behind a turtle mask appeared at the out-of-the-closet
party for Brother Timothy from Trinidad,
Grandma Esther’s spirit was seen cloaked in a beaver coat sucking
the toes of an isolated foot,
A female Japanese mannequin wrapped in a plastic shroud was hidden
under a bench in Grand Central Station,
River rats scampered up & down the walls of Trinity Church to tease the
Cardinal – too old & fat for flight,
In Battery Park detectives discovered a woman in mink drowned in a
bathtub with a rubber duck,
Teenage boys & girls fucked all night on the manicured lawn of the
Governor’s summer home on the outskirts of Peekskill,
A mischievous unicorn was spotted prancing with tourists as they crossed
the Brooklyn Bridge at sunrise – on her back a sleeping cheetah
above her head a brace of cooing doves.