I’d back down if I were you, he shot a clown once. How can you relax? “Do you want to go to McDonald’s? Do you want to go to Chili’s? Do you want to go to Outback? Do you want to go to Miami Subs Grill? Do you want to go to the Container Store? Do you want to go to Sharper Image? Do you want to go to Hooters? Do you want to go to Chi-chi’s? Wait, Chi-chi’s is out of business. Do you want to go to Kenny Rogers Roasters? Do you want to go to Denny’s? Do you want to go to Great Clips? Do you want to go to Taco Bell?” Moods rev. Moods rev in any set of coordinates, like fog in d-flat. Water swims to more water. “The neck’s broken. The brain is useless. We need a new brain.” “You ever see Star Wars? ... It’s very accurate,” to quote Sun Ra. I can’t really say that I ‘get’ the azaleas, just that I’m passing them. Space feeds off itself and feeds off the space beside it, knitting bloated yards together in strungtime, fetusfat, crawlanimals, Peacebeaten, snotcrow, wax girl, scratch hare, shock-muffled, crampgrip, meager fields all the way up to the small hut that had put its roots down at the foot of the bent, brooding Gloam Shell. The mountains were somewhat loose, loose from worry, like teeth in a cancer mouth. In the river fold a poisonous mush was boiling. The end was nigh. In the fjord the whales bawled and blustered, hit their plate lobes against each other in ringing thrust. The perverse nature continued to take place, and through the fibers the hideous lymph spread. You can kind of chew it. The space here seems hungry from being overfed, then starved. So now, come here and meet your plague-mom: After, still sweating, we drink Crystal Light out of plastic water bottles. BMB: Will you read the Lindsay Lohan section from your sensational chapbook E!? BK: I have only read this in public once, at Skylight Books in Los Feliz. But if the Bambi Muse babies want me to, I will. It’s the most misunderstood section of E! — people just gloss over it. But LL’s stolen necklace is the link between Dynasty’s catfight and Anna Nicole’s clown face demise. ‘You know / you know you know. It’s all uncertainty / and your neck. You walk slowly / in a calm voice.’ And you listen to your app: “Take a picture of a cloud. If there are no clouds, improvise as you see fit.” Then there are social practices like asking passersby if they’ve seen a rabbit in the area. “Locate the light source illuminating your path — the moon, the sun, the stars, or streetlights. Notice the shadows and colors it creates. Wait for a change in light before you continue.” His shot appears sideways, confused, perhaps because he’s struggling to find some other source. That answer lies further beyond, in the glow of bright lights from elsewhere in the city reflecting off the smoggy atmosphere. Why? What is being sold there? And of wolves in the hills? Or your car is / Blocking my driveway / If you don't move it NOW I'll call / And have it towed, Jim I'm sorry, I didn't mean what I said, I just thought I did, we don't have, I need to get 1 lb ground beef / Turn left / Under the olive trees. NOW who's Pythagoras? But streets get named typically after numbers or trees of they’re given the names of prominent as well as lesser-known citizens or the names of great cities of the world or the great letters of the alphabet from A to Z but in celebration of the things we consume the names of products and objects should be given to some streets (Tagliatelle Lane, Glue Stick Street, iPod Alley) and to encourage pursuit of intellectual professions a city's central thoroughfare might be called Mathematics Avenue, Neurochemistry Street, Jurisprudence Boulevard, or Lit Crit Street while at the edge of town the throughways and by ways could commemorate abstractions and generalized conditions (as in Global Capital Street, Logic Throughway, Affluence Alley, Interruption Boulevard, Domination Interstate, Accumulation Highway). My foot is in your hand and oh now it’s in your mouth. There is so much blood in the trees. It will be easy to fall in love like this.
[Note: Sources: Temperance Brennan, “The Glowing Bones in the Old Stone House” episode of Bones;There is No Year, as quoted in Sparks’ “While the World Was Sleeping: A Review of Blake Butler’s There is No Year and Nothing”, at Big Other, 28 Feb 012; Camille Martin, “Twin Cicadas”, “Snipe Hunt”, at 17 Seconds; JBR; Frankenstein (dir. James Whale, 1931), epigraph to Sean Moreland, “‘another brain’: An interview with Sandra Ridley”, at 17 Seconds; Sun Ra, and Dana Ward, as quoted in Dana Ward and Karen Weiser, “On Affinity, a conversation”, at POM2 4; Blake Butler, and Aase Berg, as quoted in Butler’s “The Tiny Massive Lardfields of Aase Berg”, at Vice, 28 Feb 012; Gregory Sherl, “Sexy Sexy”, at Night Train 9.2; Bambi Muse Babies and Kate Durbin, as quoted in Bambi Muse, “The Baby Kate Interview”, at Bambi Muse, 28 Feb 012; Emily Pettit, as quoted in John Ashbery, SPD blurb for Pettit’s Goat in the Snow; JBR, but see following; An Xiao, Cary Peppermint, as quoted in An Xiao’s “Where Psychogeography Meets Mobile Phones”, at Hyperallergic, 28 Feb 012 (on the Indeterminate Hikes + app); The Book of a Thousand Eyes, as seen in various sections on various pages at Poets.org; Carolyn DeCarlo, “My foot is in your hand …”, as quoted in “Jackson Nieuwland + Carolyn DeCarlo”, at Everyday Genius, 28 Feb 012; Zachary Schomburg, as quoted in SPD blurb for Schomburg’s Fjords Vol. 1]