Midland, Texas

Some people use vaseline on their finger.
The vent or cloaca will be pointing
Away from you. Open the single body
Cavity by a cloaca-to-chin incision.

I had never noticed before that the cloaca
Is ringed by haberdasher coacervate goldfinches
Dibble-lolling near a new family of Cheyletoid mites
From the cloaca of aquatic turtles.

Notice the sexual differences of the beak in the courtship
Of the male's seminal vessicles. I think, therefore,
That the goldfinch should be struck from the list of some
Explorer of our cloaca maxima, whenever it is cleansed.

Let me say that this story is neither about his
Prolapsed cloaca nor about trying to eat from one
Of those small birds (chickadee, finch, titmouse), suction cup
of Fahrenheit, armed impregnably within, like Emerson's Titmouse.

Just one gallon of oil can create an 8 acre oil slick....
Tufted Titmouse, 4 x 4, 8-10, 6-8, 1-1/4, 6-15, in swamps...
White-breasted Nuthatch, 4 x 4, 8-10, 6-8, 1-1/4, 5-20,
bushtit dot comments. ENTRY: Alrightee then, could be worse--

could be "gas with oily discharge" ... you ... If your ass
leaks oil? ExxonMobil. Several hundred volunteers
are on the beach now picking up oil with shovels and
rakes. I observed near the mouth, appeared to be free.