In
context hmmmmm
is a string
of
DNA, for
the scale of
the
task is
so huge — sidebar
scatter
of poetic
debris going all
coastal
hmmmmmmmmm hmmmmmmmmm, “a
panoply of perfect /
luster
bouncing” those
who forget their
youth.
Great Jesus’
ghost — offwhite, visceral,
on
a tray
in the butcher’s
window
like that
stuff inside a
cow.
Again the
day comes fat
with
that apple,
the world ’s
an
iceberg again
I am naked
as
a table
cloth in Lisbon,
city
of stairs
stairs loin-like
stairs.
Exhale without
thought three miles
out,
all those
what-ifs struck
against
a hard
surface, the hard
surface,
where the
things hang out,
a
vertigo of
objects such as
Graham
describes with
his infinite submultiples
of
multiples. The
ampersand is more
and
more pleasing
there for people
to
snag themselves
on; on which
to
snag themselves;
their long strands
of
gravity; I
was a teenage
gingerale:
a stranger
meat, like salmon:
pink;
has eggs,
intricate bones. Half
the
moon. -light
slice      frontal. That
was
the road
with the mad
women,
where at
any time of
day
you’d see
them hanging out
third-
floor windows.
Good title, I
thought,
then thumbed
through the handsome,
flamingo-
pink, I
went out into
the
world and
bought as many
knickknacks
(death and
air, counting and
telling,
failed revolutions,
empty tombs). “Put
the
rocks in
your mouth, rub
them
in your
eyes.” Ever heard
of
a viroid?
For a thousand
years,
we had
lived like this —
heat,
in this
place, goes deeper
than
sleep. I’m
sure Aristotle wouldn’t
have
been able
to answer my
questions
on comedy.
RU busy?
U
R always
busy. A mollusc
consuming
itself with
its own flame.
Behind
all the
trees and everything.
The
actual trees
are not visible.
After
each pulse
a strange slow
dimple.
Near several
prone sheep a
man
dangles a
parasol. Keep on
spuggin
in the
antique turbulence. White
yachts
soaked in
mist cruise gray
bay
waters. Yight
watts moaked in
sist
gruise cray
way bawters.
Bite
cotts goaked
in wist … “It
was
35 dollars,
a fortune at
the
time, but
I had to
have
it!” The
new softness, talkative
hands
rinsing the
mesh of their
wheels
in mysterious
oil, res ludological,
software
& systems
app rhizomatic Rollover
Resistance
Rating. Stars.
Five. Five Stars.
Italics.
We’ve held
to this and
set
our teeth.
Dead rat nailed
to
weathered board.
Can of spray
enamel,
top off,
empty. Pebbles. Shadows.
NrMt
condition. Dark
Matter collapsolating. Wazzup
motherfucker.
What does
homo sacer mean?
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