Four Poems
Christopher Mulrooney

Zoilus

hypocrites who cannot read at all
the script on scroll I tell you straight
the man was speaking of me call
him blind I say he saw with hate

acme

Well, you know the rest (Browning somewhere)
it's an island in the midst of a waste
an enterprise zone a queer fantasy
ah how it moves all along the line so

flim-flam

if I trade one dollar down
and one to come and one to forgive me
squat into the toilet with
will you give me Barabbas?

a collapsible telescope

a bathysphere speaks
through an interpreter

who thumbs his nose
at our cares

where the girls play
on the island beach