Portrait of a Capitalist

My home is on the side of a cliff. My wife is a fashion icon and so are my two or three children. The dog is not a dog. I know a lot about art. I have a beautiful painting from the 19th century hanging above the fireplace. I think it’s about God because when I purchased it, the lights dimmed.

My best friend has shoulders wide enough to stand on, like a helicopter platform. My mother taught me tact; this is why my fingernails have rescinded into my lungs. My assistant, hiding underneath her desk, recounts a story from her youth about going to the cinema and eating candy. I am grateful she took the time to humanize herself. I show my gratitude by throwing her a pound of beef. She gobbles it up and I know she is happy.
In the afternoons, I take warm baths. My spiritual advisor says I’m choking. The mail has been piling up for years, so now I have to hire some ugh to burn it. After getting wine-drunk, I take to sleep. I do not dream. It’s a waste of energy.

Every morning I wake up with amnesia for the new day. Thank you Lord for we are blessed.

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Coda

I am bored by that song you like and your favorite style of movement and your favorite bar and your favorite gallery and your favorite discoteque and your favorite….

Hi friend. I can’t be around right now because I only see an abysmal bedlam of blase, please leave a message.

I’m falling but I think the earth and its buildings are suffering from ataxia.

While sexy excelsa sunbathes in Rio, Bertholletia spits melanoma all over the belly of Bombus and Christine Xylocopa. I forget where that happened but amnesia is mostly a myth like Poseidon and evolution.

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Bryan Edenfield was born in Arizona but has lived in Seattle since 2007. He was the founder and director of the small press and literary arts organization, Babel/Salvage. He hosted and curated the Glossophonic Showcase and the Ogopogo Performance Series. His writing has been published by Sporklet, Mantra Review, Underwood Press, Meekling Review, TL;DR, Soft Blow Magazine, Plinth, and others. He was a recipient of the Jack Straw Writers Fellowship for 2018 and is currently the host and producer of the Hollow Earth Radio program, Glossophonics.
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