The Poetry of Mark Daniel Milbocker 
Fish-eyed

Let us elegize the eukaryotic
flight from sipping sunshine like
lemonade, crafting our nucleics into
federated borders with endoplasmic
flags waving in the saline flux
we christened from pond scum into
eden's mud puddle and evolved a taste
for apples and the maleficence of
dining al fresco, tossing our snail shells
into the Seine as we fart between
taxis passing by and sip the artistry
of stolen beans from abroad and
the roast of fallen sheaves with butter
to baste our belches over the weavings of
newspaper narratives justifying our
egregious celebrations of our inanity
with a ballet of death-tethered-songs
sung by our angelic egots to comfort
the trodden with the gaslight of the chorus
while the trance mix fires raves of
indulgence to warm the planet's hearts
in the narcotic seizures of our youthful
kindlings so we may have stories to tell
the next spawn that escapes the maternal plasm
and dreams of what they were fairytold
by so many disparate footsteps upon so many
moons to learn we are marbled in blue
and swim in vast bait balls of sparkling ignorance
fearing for sharks long dead while we
eat our own desperation and relive the
entropic endeavor of evolving to something
more or at least the unexplored for
it is hard to breath outside our ocean
of novelties.
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