the pope died the other day

Funny how that one worked out. Anywho, the big news of the day is this: this! Having a poem here makes me happy. Here's part two of the Nopar King series. Is it a series? This is part two anyway:

The shadowbox with its Mondrian orthogonals elevated bric-a-brac and ambered test tubes. What too many chemicals will do to transparency. The king steps on his shadow and boxes its ears. Test tubes holding x mL of dusty air remind him of progress. To be progressive. To wax paper your losses and tie a string around them. Wishing to close all the open parentheses in the kingdom. Hanging his crown from all hooks the lowercase alphabet provides.