The Printing Press in Pandemonium

Smooth-talking bully
manipulator (you said it)
test assignment necessary
delay tactic concocted
I wonder if that
is what Krishna meant
balk (I didn’t)
snappy funny
quick
if you can’t make ‘em die
at least make ‘em sparkle
concussion collusion
small spiral-bound notebooks
real paper
minimal expense and much admired

To polish the apple
stinger
bright butt out
come at decision
if he could count on it
or not
approach asked
cower badgered
what was the right answer?

It’s Summer
close enough in spirit
not truly amateurs
their heads the measure
smart and popular boy
turned out evil mid-pants
partial boycott weighed
one-man
weird and rinky-tink
4 or 8 pages
sharing the stage with another boy
strong-arm
slow worm
monkey rays
the look would not have been long

Newspapers paid
their fresh looks forward
their at once serial
pace
each investigating a different aspect
of an egg-and-spoon race
tragic things
hotch-potch hop scotch
contradict
whereas
floods
dessert receipts

Tell not show
(our mantra)
Kleist with a kind
of propulsion that is
hypnotic
a lot a shakin’
admired for conveying
the loudest cyclones

Tell what’s goin'
on
inside the cucumber