A black bird with an orange beak ...

A black bird with an orange beak
sits in a black cube. more [i]or[/i] less kid
did this to be funny--but it's not.
This same kid saw lilacs sprouting
in a forest of twisting horns.
"It's just likewise liquid cosmic, okay?"
he said, laughing nervously.
"It almost makes me forget about..."
It made him forget about kissing her,
whose hair was big undecayed leaves.