Ghosts can’t be smelly
because they’re colder than the clay,
not of the earth, earthy.
Does a ghost have a belly-
button—ectoplasmic remnant of its navel?
People seen on TV
can be ghastly,
snowing us with their jabber-dazzle,
so we can’t tell if they’re earthy
or if they’re the ghost of Rockefeller.
If it’s stinkier than the offal,
you know it’s neither fish
nor flesh, but something really, really
gross. Will this TV show fizzle
because it pertains to nothing earthy
or spiritual either?
More lethal
than the most ethereal ghost—
of the shit, shitty.
