When
you finally
climb up on
the
piano and
your hair starts
to
blow back …
and you are
just
so undignified …
like good. O
tickle
star o
rub that purple
rim,
this is
the “weird mereology”:
two
enemy puffs
of air uh
mingle.
“Forget my
ocean,” I cry,
I
laugh, I
read, “I have
something
sleepy to
tell you.” The
god
emerging from
marble points at
the
chisel at
the base of
its
stone, no,
end stain bookcase
reassuring
brutally eating-
house, why, who
hears
inside the
brick these notes?
Ash
is crystal.
And, may I
ask,
what ethnic
background are you?
Oh,
regular? Yes,
it must be
boring
to be
so normal. You
could
be at
the beach one
day
and the
ocean could sit
on
you. When
I get nervous
I
get hyper
and bump into
people.
Thank you.
Orange, brown and
green
are false.
Knock on the
cage,
boogie-woogie,
we are given
to
understand that
to learn to
play
boogie-woogie
has salvational and
utopian
overtones. If
you open your
mouth
to start
to complain I
will
fill it
with whipped cream …
Don’t
undermine or
overmine. Don’t deny
the
unicorn lover
deep inside you.
[Note Sources: FCF 6 was made out of bits from “some books I pulled off the library shelves.” This is made of bits from most of the authors sampled there, as well as bits from some substitutes, etc. Alternate title: “Poem Beginning and Ending with Some Lines by Chelsey Minnis” …Chelsey Minnis, Poemland; Philip Whalen, “T/O”, as quoted in Dale Smith, “Philip Whalen Inside and Out”, at Big Bridge; Levi R Bryant, “Flat Ontology”, at Larval Subjects, 24 Feb 010; Pedro Llanes, “The Fly” (tr. Mark Weiss), in The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology (ed. Mark Weiss); Thomas Fink, Maya Diablo Mason, Tan Lin, in Tan Lin’s blurb for Fink and Mason’s Autopsy Turvy, at Meritage Press.com; Dan Beachy-Quick, “Antique Foundation”, at Reading Between A & B; Jackson Mac Low, The Virginia Woolf Poems, as quoted in Tyrus Miller, Singular Examples: Artistic Politics and the Neo-Avant-Garde, and Miller on Robert Ashley, Perfect Lives; Bill Berkson, “Melting Milk”, in Portrait and Dream: New and Selected Poems; Heather Nagami, “Thank You”, at Living JA; Cyril Wong, “that day”, in like a seed with its singular purpose; K Silem Mohammad, “Poems About Trees”, at Poetry Foundation.org; Edward Foster, “Dry Landscapes in Cezanne”, at Edward Foster.net; Rachel Zucker, “bed”, at Barrow Street;Chelsey Minnis, Zirconia, as quoted in Arielle Greenberg, “Zirconia” [review], at Electronic Poetry Review 3]
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