The Poetry of Mark Daniel Milbocker 
Inflammable

I domicile amongst the tinderkegs
Panting with all the humidity I may muster
for every word is a wick a moment
before the combustion of a cortisol convulsion
though I stand unharmed so long as all my 
ernestness arrests its sincerety in 
the face of the sublime 
smiling upon my craftiness 
satisfied with the effort if not the
particular refraction of my
ketracel-white privilege 
fragility sublimated into a flint-chinned pose;
Quench the innocence of my indolence
my languishing upon your breast
my relishing your attentions undeserved
with the whimsical coyness of my words
hiding my quivering mentations
unleashing them into my salad flow of 
non-sequiturs and torrid entendre
lusting to be kenned and 
know who would pour out their hours upon
this maneuvering of mystic lips 
for I am bent beyond my farthest
into the equilibrium of
a candle that smolders long.
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