John Biscello

The umbilical cable

arrived

from heaven

to bait and hook

the grateful mortal

who sacrificed his head

(and the dead weight

of its trivial contents

masquerading as profound

or important)

to become a supple visual vowel

with no more ties to his life

sentence on earth,

nor any regard for gravity

as a force-fed deterrent

to the loftiest

of his venereal desires.

(Sculpture by Louise Bourgeois)