This poem appears in Arielle Greenberg’s 2015 book “Slice” from Coconut Press. Her work is brilliant, please support her writing.
Month: January 2018
Scraps for God
Wikipedia Poem, No. 718
mount ancient
hard sounds
from the coast
of his way
to be had
life ended up
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How I Go About It (Effort)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 716
here much of critics the skeleton swings
long ago two women performed here ligament
feather breather breather breather breather breather breather
breather breather breather breather breather
breather breather breather breather breather breather breather
breather breather breather breather breather
breather breather breather breather breather breather
breather breather breather breather breath and wings
a damask skeleton swings skeleton
brings a blank my lord mass culture in a hammock
skeleton swings a blank my lord mass culture
in a hammock skeleton thinks a
damask skeleton thinks a damask skeleton swings long ago
two women performed here much of critics
the skeleton swings a blank my lord mass
culture in a hammock skeleton swings skeleton
brings long ago two women performed here much of critics
the skeleton swings ligament feather
breather breather breath and wings ligament
feather breather breather breather breather breather
breather breath and wings in a hammock skeleton swings
a damask skeleton thinks a damask skeleton swings a blank lord
mass culture in a hammock skeleton brings
blank my lord mass culture in a hammock skeleton brings a
blank my lord mass culture referent skeleton thinks a damask
skeleton swings skeleton ligament feather breather
breather breather breather breather breather breather breather
breather breather breather breather breather breather breather
breather breather breather breather breath and wings a damask
skeleton swings a blank my lord mass culture referent
skeleton thinks a damask skeleton brings ligament
feather breather breather breather breather breather breather
breather breather breather breather breather breather
breather breather breather breather breather breather breather breather
breather breather breather breath and wings a damask
skeleton swings skeleton swings a blank
my lord mass culture referent skeleton swings
ligament feather breather breather
breather breather breather breather breather breather breather
breather breather breather breather breather breather breather
breather breather breather breather breather breather breather
breather breather breather breather breath and wings a blank
my lord mass culture in a hammock skeleton swings
a blank my lord mass culture in a hammock
unrequited mass culture in a hammock skeleton
ligament feather breather breather
getTransformations()
int has served me well
served silently though i
find some small satisfaction
of rain and it still rains
so, here: looking is no thinking
some bundle of typeerrors refuses multiplication
sequence-thinking iterates
of critique since said with still promise
to never despise all this thingyness
already the objects i know think too much
disappoint people in counting customers
know their way around! i’m alone i think of a lock
what people mechanize in the world
though a simple technological advance
counted sits in some conceived divine place not here not
so manly as to serve the crow that quietly delivers the day
maybe he praised you approach the quick iridescing children
their wings type it’s still rain just looking down from information
as a mountain i mean to intimate with love do you understand me?
i find behavior confidant and events undivine unlikely
a variety of typeerrors bloom into cheap aluminum
keys suddenly things are meant to click and begin
and do begin in fact without a single int
Hourly Labor Rate, Plus Materials
curators offer a variety of their subjective photography
the customer will have been satisfactorily abused and served
through technological advances in counting the service understands
people places approaches and circulation methods though we still
promise to never index works from information
the subjective photographs have been used to concatenate
and share xerophagiac critique since 1839
The service invents the mode of ideas, you approach them!
technologies and events communicate modern man as a means to the present day
photography menaces—though who knows?—to strive for ease-of-abstraction
serve a visually continuing world it will rain just look outside
String Manipulation in Python (Francis Picabia Sick in Bed)
Wikipedia Poem, No.713
the result is a radical cacodylate no syntax
for that >>> print ":".join(word = "hello world"
that >>>
a group portrait that sense he essentially this
print word.startswith("h") # find("h") / print word.find("H")
point true
in this nominal head of paint that are text if removing three char
>>> print word[-3:] # the artist dies if removing three char
and corner and corner and as you seeing believed
times leading titles have been created by his hand
cornered and cornering and the date is the result
# count how many demons occur the radial keyboard
exaltation in this activity: seduction iteration really this was something
>>> print "i".join(word) # add me into the fabric of every char
artist he was sick after every inscription in time
>>> print s.count('i') count('o') count('u')
print the artist's name and her work where artist is essentially
as word.endswith('d') his friends invite the artist's name and count(' ')
“The Biggest Bomb” David Ignatow
Y’all should get real intimate with this gem. It’s from “Claims for Poetry,” a dope book of essays edited by Donald Hall from 1982.
This short essay from 1955 is by a poet I had never heard of, David Ignatow. I googled him and discovered he was the kind of poet who found some success, but always had to maintain a day job: butcher, book binder, “hospital admitting clerk, vegetable market night clerk, and paper salesman.”
He was also “editor of American Poetry Review, Analytic, Beloit Poetry Journal, and Chelsea Magazine, and … poetry editor of The Nation.”
Anyway, biographical minutiae aside, this “impressionistic essay” is at times monastic — “I deal with words, I give myself the pleasure of being free with my feelings, my thoughts. I allow them to fall into any shape or color they desire in words.” — and at other times animalistic: “The freedom I write about is for cockroaches, ants, mice, and lice.”
Simple Hunger from the Eastern Shore
Wikipedia Poem, 700 (Python Remix)
While just past the edge of frame, drowned saying hunger think of horror ship in wars well done had an idea: Why not dress as violence metaphor what resources and lead-in-the-water san diego people?
While from the eastern shore, nurture by all of us from the pacific creation’s backyard united states out on the had an idea: Why not dress as it is colonialism and today from india flint china mahwah people?
While just past the edge of frame, drowned saying hunger think of horror not in theory had an idea: Why not dress as violence metaphor what resources and happiness within us all people?
While from the eastern shore, slay the brutal american deemed too far ship in wars well done had an idea: Why not dress as from the easy station of the worst and syria sperm whale alabama people?
While just past the edge of frame, nurture by all of us think of horror not in theory had an idea: Why not dress as violence metaphor what resources and happiness within us all people?
While the worst violence is hunger, slay the brutal american deemed too far united states out on the had an idea: Why not dress as how this hunger and lead-in-the-water san diego people?
While simple hunger, nurture by all of us from the pacific creation’s backyard the viewer perhaps observes had an idea: Why not dress as from the easy station of the worst and syria sperm whale alabama people?
While from the eastern shore, slay the brutal american deemed too far not in theory had an idea: Why not dress as it is colonialism and mountainside vietnam bangladesh people?
While just past the edge of frame, power the open ocean the you ess frigate ship in wars well done had an idea: Why not dress as how this hunger and staten island hackensack people?
While simple hunger, slay the brutal american think of horror the viewer perhaps observes had an idea: Why not dress as it is colonialism and lead-in-the-water san diego people?
Pay Half Your Life, Rounded Up
Wikipedia Poem, No. 712
one part gas mask
two parts treeshrew skull
one half ounce intoxicated trounce
one buxom bouncecastle
some amount of tree
half never retrieve the cumulus of nectar
first you crawl
then you pay
Raising Blood Pressure and Increasing the Risk of Heart Problems and Stroke
Wikipedia Poem, No. 711
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