ocean
falls from sky
thousand years ago. He:
young child, breathes.
million years drown dry
lungs cold with absence
single cell in solid space
then catastrophe, star.
eyes without white. See:
shifts echo black
collapse
The bird, an extended cremation,
its wings were thin coffins.
Crushed from below
in all directions,
rotating through
each one at a time,
it has a stomach
full of dead seeds
and lead.
It sang a sound like
splash, (not very pretty)
and fell.
A ripple on the water said,
"I'm here," not was. I liked that,
but not as much
as before.
Mirrors hanging on walls by moth-bitten string fall
and break / into / each other. It's warm and soft inside
this softened room's womb, rhythmic almost, but - beats
of skull-drumming cobbed webs pounding innerlock channels
in walled flu-id : down, out, along, and around the
rims clang cacophonodemons like back in tenth grade
when: bright outs and graphite clouds outline an idol
clamoring its teeth round clean youth.
Ten years look back to see big men in small houses
that stink of bleach and formaldehyde baking
in figure-hate-lungs seated in automaticate dead beds
reclined on backed-up models. This room
was thick with good wills.
He wanted legacy -
daddy's destiny
in a jar on a desk
ledger. It was black
and well-shined and
had cookie jar in red all over it.
His father was old-fashioned -
it was written on bills set counter-top
next to stove burners. Sometimes closer.
He kept the walls whitewashed
and soft: hygeine
is cleaner than hydrogen.
Mother was
not home; nine to five
liberated, so proud
of herself.
Her dreams
were of back-then
backend highschool cars,
leather coats and goatees.
Home was for nights
and weekends. TV keeps it quiet
for late breaks today. More so
during news-flash commercials.
Then it happened:
ten years of me down
on
We are the debts of John-Lisa.
Enter past mailboxes nailed shut
or just ignored. Step by oil marks staining
the sidewalk in slick tailpipe drips,
framed by rails in dead-brain paint.
Scrape your shoe on our welcome,
cheque your tricks at the door.
Sit
on our upholstered yawn-chair,
eat our boring bread (coated
in cold butter).
Miss, judge these two-eye-toasts
paid by His truly. Thanks.
It was stale and sharp,
the talking, and each left scars
on too-old wounds. Excuse yourself
and
splash water on boiled skin - avoid
grease fires. Leave your putdown
footprint inside. Shiver out the
threshold, past the porch
and a flag
Weather trims smiles to cold-sore-grins
on grim worn streets. Vanity runs down,
listening to its own pace, turning by
an elder with time-earned bark.
If heard, it would disapoint.
It does not assign numbers
to anything. They are issued on order,
but it will not come: a one-way thing.
Aman with a dirty neck and clean chin
sends forth mandate: give to receive.
He takes nothing, but what?
This is a stick up.
Above you, stuck to nails, coins
strung through squares.
Even steel condenses.
Watch sky scrapers cough
clean cigarettes
down oral tubes
of domesticated cathode cocks.
Free range hunting.
Take the trigger and make fi
.
There are no dead flowers here.
They were watered on dry sunday,
and the sign on the door said:
Business as unusual. Pay mints
to sweeten breaths of teeth
that tie some other god's neck
in candied I-love-you-knots.
Green makes jealous jewels
much prettier than the stones
they are: wet-tensed surface-
checks. Check it out.
Hinging on blind corners
see-through sands
forshadow will-be forgotten
events:
There are no dead flowers.
They were dropped
on dry sunday.
.
.
Ticks and bones
are food enough
for thoughts made
on old times - but
it isn't safe.
There.
But here
warmth is an envelope
to wrap your hope in
and send yourself.
Perhaps
there will be rest.
More than barter.
An eye goes north from south,
the other way too.
Beneath silver lants
turns tell what is best
unknown.
Walk away late.
Bang—
head, heat.
Wrong -
refract this way,
that. Two headed snake
escape.
Locked from inside, a
bolted light. Touch his - mind
you, it is not him.
Charged a dollar
and two cents more -
couldn't bring
to table.
Dirt cleans
flat sediments
on sight,
laying felt words
on a napkin, pl
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DECENT TRANS IT DECLARE TART
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Feet seek feasts of televised-Booth-
feats (melodiless
footnotes in pages
prepared unread) of
Lincoln vehicular slaughters
veiling the very
volumes they measured
in atomized atomic time.
They race to face the
global epidermic centers
of continental continuums
consuming math,
prerequisital recitals
lamenting the loss
of elaborated demeaning
misunderstandings.
Understand the conflict- :
ing verbs never show state of being,
but state of change.
State the purpose:
Descent transcending
down an upward-escalator reversed,
the underside understated in
opaque forgetfulness -
trace scars of scuffed
scandal vandals that never
.
thirst isn't pleasant
when salt is all there is—
I think I have a headache,
but I can't quite remember.
the gas-tank gauge
teases E.
first times aren't easy,
this is a first
for me.
the apartment gate is closed
from now to five a.m.—
if you are a guest
you need a key
to enter after dusk.
you have no messages.
the separation
was judged
at nine a.m.
monday morning,
sixty-five and windy—
it's all about you.
.
.
get your groceries,
we are going down the street.
do not make eye contact,
keep your arms inside.
you will not be hurt.
if their skin is so dark
it is because it is dirty.
\'what is dirty\'
because they are so dirty
their skin is so dark.
do not make eye contact.
do not be afraid.
they\'re just as scared as you are.
they are just as scared as you are.
now get back inside.
now put them inside.
do not let them dirty.
.
.
i don
my fisherman's ring
and cast my self
out to sea.
among the fish
i shepherd with
a net
and oil.
i bait them in
my faith
and hope they don't see
the light.
.
.
She sees herself
in glass,
painted on
a silver canvas.
She sees herself
as nothing—
sees herself
in something
that her eyes
pass through.
Makes changes.
.
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S P T T I N G O U T L I G H T
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spitting out a kind of light backwardly reflecting off the monotone brow of a broken review mirror,
checking behind for some sort of oh-my-god-it's—
i'm coming [revelation],
looking for a sign of light; confusing sensory input.
headlights shining nearer asking for names, identity,
'what were you doing on the night of'
questions.
'i don't have any answers,
i don't understand your questions.'
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'i don't understand.'
'ignorance is not an excuse.'
thpttng owt lite,
[i'm choking on the rest,]
i'm looking for answers reflecting in
pale flat faces.
.
Skipping silently a-
long lips of film,
(water's never far beneath,) the
obsidian-rock-tear tears through
the air, denying echo cushion
of sound
vibrate.
Dissipating significance of audit sensory
auditory neurons, neutralizing digital self-explanation,
conclusion:
irrelativity.
Time slows
to a flash
of not-so-aerodynamic time,
sewing knots in reason that's
never far behind.
Splash.
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ROYAL DISCARD-FRIENDLY SHOTGUN
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I am the king of bag-eye-blues —
my queen long divorced the vessels
Christianed on dark-paned-glass and
stigmatic holes in walls of the
conscious-
ness undertaking simplification of mind-
distorting meanings of laws created for the sake
of bending the rules.
Magnum Cartesian roulette
spin-cycles washed-out brains
on purple-pink ties
stained with spaghetti-strung thoughts,
wrapped in pitchfork pitch.
Black stabs of shining points
point sparks into light,
shafting three-joint fingers
conjoined into white imitations
of a black-barreled gun
into my back, where time and space are
cerebellar traits of warped minds warping
tho
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per aspera, ad astra.
to the angel of the halls of time:
in the space of those untold-thousand terminal
heartbeats silent; the treetop sunbeams gliding
some forest thaw in spring where he was static
bled like ruin and heather in the cloudshperes
she danced not far, and whether or not she felt
the dynamic of weathered-storm skyshallow, yet
untired he moved to make not a sound and thus
was fashioned the beginning of an end
sometime in the past, wherewith all things were
one, it seemed like it would only be forever from
Her hair was a charlatan dedication plucked from the springs of a car seat
and her eyes were dog-eared pages of French novels
and her blink was a beatnik handkerchief
and her teeth were the pawns of an iconoclasts chess set
and her bite was the tail end of a well-filmed soap opera.
Her nostrils were electrical outlets, occupied.
And her mouth was the quickest route to a mans shortcomings
and her smile was a ramshackle version of the Sistine Chapel
and her tongue was a Moroccan banker
and her whistle was an epiphanic version of Holsts Venus
and her laugh was a zigzagging line of cocaine.
She coughed
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