For the happy man! - Collected writings DEPRESSION: Ed Atkins

MAPLE SYRUP AND CIGARETTES
So it seems the correlate is a lungfish or something.
Certainly the death-ripple of striated mucal ribbons,
flapping in bone-coloured concave sails – full
and flooded with salt water taffy. Stretched over quivering
trachea, boiled sugar and butter and parasitic
carmine limbs and carapaces
corralling some swollen,
off-white, latex, pleasure-ribbed, foil-sweated, set-semen,
bag-boiled GRUB:
an ecstatic, engorged, end, enlarged
inside a sad paperweight of carbonated amber.
– Who fears deep water, despite the right equipment.
– Would rather stick than twist, in other words.
(S = k log W ≤ headstone and entropy, crested with
gilded with a POP
of orange lichen)
As in, turned. Like wax fruit. }
– ‘Under the Banana Wing’
Being an honest enough epitaph.
Brown tears in cilial hairs
Necessitating nebulizers
commonly used for the treatment of cystic fibrosis,
asthma, COPD and other respiratory diseases.