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NEW! Selections from a work in progress that I write on lunch break:
Budget office Chairs
In Jail Compile Recipies
My Proposal
Bemoles
Name
Return of the Grownups
Deep Left
You marry for organs
Obvious subtle illicit
Reading Interruptions
Got secrets got to leave campus now
Eat it and shut up
Fire on the head aggravates
I traveled to this foreign land
Brought up strip joints and how great lap dances
Nipples needed
Missing children as a value add
"BIAN"
1. To Chris/For Messing Around
5. Get a Provider
Bravely fleeting non-vulgar anyone
Most people are smart enough on the podium
Selections from a work in progress that I write on lunch break:Budget office chairs for
more serious perversions.
This day least evanescent
sexy incantation not sexy
like sex or computer pellet
nutrition. There’s enough
space under my desk—dear
G-d pls. Erase beliefnet
browser history and alt.
sex.com. Bored girl scout
cookies all shack. I eat 5.~
In jail compile recipes for
fish and cold warm-weather
soup and salad. Jail’s got it
good in the utility bill, in the
Admin with a capital “L”
for no I don’t know where
it is or read the news is sub
Siberian vodka. Ice cream
Nostalgia. Won’t that get
you through labor camp
Winter or possible execution?~
Moral resolution: circle jerk
scotch tape. All together
single or Fascist? Never more
than two wives one is best
says G-d it’s OK. Employ
virgins read maids and what
if she isn’t and then what?~
double sharp staff
seat expanding overtime
measured by the relationship
between violence and
inflation. say other.
character development, I
like it fine--believe in
foreign painted signify
renamed a new geography,
created a housing community.
summertime landscape:
six dollars an hour
to lift in the sun.~
church falls split behind
rocks molted for geological
experiments. see what
crusted sulfur burning
ooze around steam wells
tourists never fall in.
it's late for the sand for
the dry light peachpit
surface--snug little
turtle eggs--goodnight.~
the airport was a good
place to go for a run
in 1978/letters mailed
with stamps gone down in
value pasted to the wall
or in my hair/collections
gleam through three-month
steamer shipments/a custom
made box for the harp/a
cable string pressurized
could lift a truck (but I'd
rather be learning reels.~
A drop cause migraine normal
heat and chemical shift so
much that nothing is diagnosed.
Transparent pain almost square
with double doses. No one
wants to be behind the counter,
browsing unapproved fear
or tropical tunnels made
to mitigate the water.
You marry for organs
dangling—used to torture.
That I love you paints one
picture hexes art as
i as me, i am possess.
What do you lot in common do?
As though nothing of your
voice and think I’ve thought
of love. Friends with knowing sex.
Memory’s terrible narrator.~
If us and run
to I this world
desire blank identities.
In many of
geography of
colors and of
textures of reality
just saying still.
Love with you like
passive servomechanisms.
Waiting goes—this
getting worse prevailing
sign psychosis. Social
remainder reduction.
We bring grisly
alternation between
schizoid and hermetic.~
ur all that any
obligated for
attention perfect
gouging eyes as
anything you just
you lost cuz telling
silent blank displace.
For ruins within:
how much a minute out?~
Jibber jabber through production pull. Summon fibrillation cheers the target-body served and gagged. Day spent June for weakness. Mean, how intense and unresolved made desire all of retrospective? There's no way you're my night more than twice. Ridiculous form of the user's choice. Panic (supposedly) memory modifies.
~
It's just
a you!
I want
to pix-
ies. I
feel day.
Life. Sub-
ject: Pain-
ter mo-
thers, stran-
gled cats,
friends with
rats. Aah!
I con-
tradict my-
self.~
flock vicissitude
~
We gesture, axial principle
scared of all gaze turned outwards:
prank against his own intentions.
Talk longer, honestly miss you to keep
have found the one as some I simply
sound obsessive out there. Excess point
compulsive fixation like opposite you
means oil paint changes years. Claimed
recovery found turned inside out
and splayed across. And bounce~
want to know you forever get on with
~
As your knees
die asleep in human
identity, just the
whiny. *shrugs*
Sunshine inscribe
blood lineage in
imaginations of sorry.
Early mottled skin reaction,
i am things allowing to
each other's arms.
Tell sum counselor they'll
portrait his first wife.
Exaggerated leg wobble~
Looked up analyzing every
part of the governing episteme.
Terrain paints body walking.
Like when it hurts I opposite - cancelled
identity overall: I too much.
I my nights. I the screen-effect.~
When you I, and I care you, afterwards I you! And I am so in white silk dress. I see you looking posted, entry makes up history of erotics unto death. Canvas. Say you hate it more than scientific discourse.
~
How causes your
advice of all
quietly strangles the
cat)(always funny,
caring, loving, beautiful.
Maybe police don't
what whose care.~
Peeled across the mediascape: create a temporary barrier to deflect small people, resurface as blank screens.
(This poem appeared in the DC Poets issue of 108, guest edited by Tom Orange)
Obvious subtle illicit:
the line between fucking around
and saving skin is
at best opaque.
Who covers your ass?
How do you like your eggs?
(Fried is not an option)
Damn and blast my broken toe
those misplaced keys turn up
in strange places always.
Every time I pay a fine
I wonder how I’m living
here with no duplication.
Policies abound.
If I loose the cardigan
they’ll only stare at cleavage.
Drink until you take it
as a complement. It’s
true you’d stare at
your chest too if only
you were available.
Admit I’m easy lying
frequently in context sorry
I’m exaggerating maybe.
It’s the drink.
Mom says marry young:
it’s best for biology since
maturity is always not a given
after thirty-five fertility diminishes.
Guess I’m screwed (I’d like to be
for once) and get screwed happily.
Enough my dear try
not to act your age.
You’re far too young for screwing.
Refrigerate the knife on purpose.
Don't understand the lesbian toe.
Scene-Last-Emperor:
A puppet playing tennis.
Never the need for suicide
only the idea,
Angelina Jolie plays with knives
in or as foreplay thus
Hollywood fell in love. The guy
linguistically lame the play sucked.
Generic might consider
something more complex
coherent we sport the four-month look.
You think razor blades impress?
Wrecking bells outside the loom
undisclosed they're buying up
building city business.
Stick to waitress.
Date your boss.
Still want my advice?
Nice white satin panties
get the fucking boy I'm sick
of being macho bitch.
Rants aside the Qing go down
pass the Mandate
too much salt and
too much lard
please use less oil rice.
Is carbohydrate anti?
Beg for me it's plastic
like the phone but soft.
The subject is Manchurian Red
Sorghum took a year to read
his uncle, God, his skin.
This month mark me
safe and healthy lacking Lamaze.
Encourage the mood I'm
not in a mood anymore.
Got secrets got to leave campus now.
No longer operative hold back your
head and tell me stories of the mystic
East. This is the last time you will fly
first class. Eat French fries in exchange
rate way too high given per diam. Regard
of country clerical work means shred
this will you love? Fear first time first
nights away on b-rate plane films. 14
hours. Longer lacking Walkman why.
Am I humming you? Ask again. Let me
sleep tomorrow. More luxury. Brunch
the district. Embassy more foreign than
I am going to ride a bike and buy it.
~
Eat it and shut up. Take it
and smile. Say. Thanks. Foolish
walked way down. City round
knows it's last bamboo scaffold
went West. Material invest in
self-colonize sovereignty where.
All dessert is latex drink jasmine
sip young. Before ferment most
expensive cup of conversation.
“Where do you live?” Hear. Don’t
understand how. To write characters:
subtract hours from the disco plus
nine roommates and candles at ten.
Consider the bus: you’re public now.~
Fire on the head aggravates. Stop.
Consider linguistic history. Pictorial
meaning oil slick in lilac rayon. Floral
as a flutist dress I'm on cement to un-
stick a chain. Health benefit pedal.
Negated in car exhaust, in traffic collisions,
in donkeys, in millions no helmets no
license. Arise and eat your free
dumplings! It's raining again and
you’re too tall for a raincoat, too
fat for the clothes and my your
skin is pale. Culture shock:
stage two. Week six according
to the chart everything hatred ensues.
Looking down view from the
ancient observatory. See. There’s
more than one McDonalds branch.
Weep in shorts and sneakers. Soon pirated
John Denver appeals behind market.
Despite police the campy CD selection
grows. Bless free market capitalism:
Cheese is more but you can pay.~
I traveled to this foreign land
to read. Resumes. This is my duty.
Hello best and brightest of Beijing!
Would-be workers of man-made fibers:
Love the joint venture? I determine
your stack and thus your future. Marbleized
paper gets you ahead. Mom was right.
Pen and ink could mean lack of technical
knowledge or poor opportunity. Access
is all. Your father is an engineer you
can spot the good ones. Right. I went
into business because I didn’t know
what I wanted Lorraine. Do you know
how long GRE scores are valid? Is there
time to get a Ph.D.? Tell your friend to
send more coffee. Since safety glass
prevents suicide we must continue to
answer the phone to edit contracts to
translate our part of the Asian polyester
empire. Why did you use your connections?
Brought up strip joints and how great lap dances
hookup to global curriculum. This girl out of nowhere
intelligence says "I got one recently and wasn't that
impressed." The main characters were all like "huh?"
She talked like it was no. We've come a long way
Truth! On beauty or sweet big deal and all I could
think was Damn. What country is completely ripe?~
Nipples needed.
Nipples fast nipples
slow nipples. Share
the lap and sing
of days in the
pea tree dish.~
Missing children as a value add,
I left that experience, massaged
egos, legalized extortion. Divert
substance to a non-wonk
audience literal. Making racist
remarks bat for company I mean
institute capital flows like green
like a solicitation must nudge inevitable.
different becomes situation change
changes to milk gone sour alter
recycle waste material frogs
with tails were tadpoles once an
unexpected turn of events surprising
multi-variable stats the calculus
of variations sigma minus capricious
converter frequent conversion chameleon
light sensitive glasses metamorphasize
abnormal anomalous allergy abnormal
psychology the weather is bound to rain
soon bring on restore reactionary rule
specific conditions accommodate cold
blooded animals adapted Chinese classical
narrative rhyme adopting often Buddhist
themes and humor dark example "The Great
Madgalyayana Rescues his Mother from
Hell" and so on so to juggle corporal
conjure punishment covert disguised
inflation informed and out of shape
the patient deform spine ameba
plasmodium transformer alter to doctor
deceive pentatonic note number four
metamorphic rock mutant opportunism
variations of a pictograph
1. To Chris/For Messing Around
Comma occurs because
love explains sense...anyone
believe changing education
before death? This country
became focal. Hot personal sink
between dry pants moreover.
It's even to... even so...
work is a fire recovered
talking yachts up story like
“(quote) the horse
fell on his head but
chop fishing down trees.
Last night other kids entire.
Age is something
small I map and say
"(quote) that's cowboy.
Pulled in money. They
(the living) don't understand. One gives
a guess like you. Miss
New Testament. Serious
stress kitchen road change. Been doing
things a different issue never
been promising. What are we so?
To bookstores and antique shops!
Suddenly my message between
guys who have to believe
life "(quote) is blueberry migrant
workers. I was writing you a
few weeks past bloated
frameworks, but it's hard
to hate vague definition.
My Texas finger divine
says “(quote) well, decide...and
even if you don’t believe at least
that la la la was very clear.~
Leave home...
send pens.
Getting dressed for
his emotional trauma/(or)
“Why I wear green socks."
Down to dungeon my
ground zero somewhere
jumping from ice
chunk to song that
craving for stupid Christmas
musical performances.
You're a waste on
finished thinking.
Bravely fleeting non-vulgar anyone. If in the cherry blossom. I
bet you anything that shuts them up. I had a great time in the sun
with you yesterday--ah, but today, where’s the sun, and where are youThe fleeting nature of existence as embodied in the passionate
embrace of everything, and looking, in a non-vulgar mannerat the fleeting nature of existence as embodied in the sun with you
yesterday--ah, but today, where’s the sun, and where are youThe fleeting nature of existence can go hang.
Bravely could you. Bravely everything. You. Up. Nature go hang.
Bravely as Bravely was ignoring them. Sorry refusing coherence,
rejecting profession, critiquing the concept of the
flake, generally indulging in the sun with you yesterday—I bet you anything that shuts them up.
Indulging in the cherry blossom.
I had a great time in the cherry blossom.Say concept sun, I’m that sorry, them but I was out
Bravely was. Where out.
Bravely had refusing blossom. coherence, rejecting.Bravely narrowness ignoring professions,
Bravely critiquing the flake.
Bravely anything shutsBravely yesterday--ah, the you of looking, today, in what manner,
with at flake, of the flake, Bravely embrace embodied great in
I fleeting existence. If fleeting non-vulgar anyone. If in the cherry blossom.
Bravely could you and the cherry blossom?(This poem appeared in the DC Poets issue of 108, guest edited by Tom Orange)
Most people talking are smart enough on the podium. Pick three and seduce—there is a tendency to scan the hypercritical few. Think and I don’t care. Turn it off you’re trapped. I’d like to begin with an update on numerous events. Simple thesis/theme. Is she a mime? Little cracked sensations begin by drawing them in. Save the thanks concluding a promise. By the time we leave here today trying to prove it to force it down your fifteen paradoxes end at eight. After dinner drinks leave confused, entertained, thinking, wonder what he said. I’ll lecture you but trust you? Fold arms. Stay away. It sucks to be here today.
