Is there a cure for Elephantiasis?

I can get out of you , Bob
the fool scapped
fertile period
cockroaches in your ass
And candles and flaming
pie & hives
for farts
Two are small & brown & fat.
In the quivering / places of slaves
In a pastel portrait / of hairs and days
A couch is but an imprimatur
Put on your cloaks and
the women will be the boys
and shout a dead bear will roll





All lines, including the title, are from Bernadette Mayer's chapbook Ceremony Latin (1964)