Hill of Jackals

Wikipedia Poem, No. 960

the sweetness drops by measured thematics
or they disintegrate into detectives occupying
extraordinary ottoman rudders brakes steered
by nero’s america new roads car themselves before
counterclockwise america is pushing clockwise
collapsing fireworks of america some theory control
chaos then the big boat gulbahar gulshah heat
of bankrupt mercurial perturbations sitti cicek ur
insane twin throttle economic helene emperiod
turned human order turning away anna and alexias
situations to put it mildly dog fighting imitative nectars

How You Are Like a Cantaloupe

How You Are Like a Cantaloupe
How You Are Like a Cantaloupe

one shouldn’t court
such controversy
so early on with no
payoff plan in place
one means this to
be a simple poem
about ribald rind
brainiac of seeds dis-
solves brown sugar
hypotaxis in scalding
green tea teaches
the kid a thing or two
about sweetness
manners like
a cantaloupe.

Black Hills Treaty

consider what they saw there

i don't trust anyone who
doesn't have my best leg
in interest both calves
slaughtered on the hill

 neither had a camera 

i hear their voices
like high school girls
squeaking on algebra
at tjmaxx i drink

coyote blood click click
each pore inflamed
for oxygen each pore
diabetic tigers of america
 
 neither      has      a camera 
 
chose to break the treaty 
when gold was discovered
there there they do
not know the way

they saw what they saw

American Flag (skinny.jpg)

Wikipedia Poem, No. 959

a camerica Broke the hill I hear the treaty after Coyotes’ blood Each pore inflamed For oxygen each pore inflamed For oxygen each pore inflamed For oxygen each pore inflamed For oxygen each pore inflamed For oxygen each pore inflamed For oxygen each pore inflamed For oxygen each pore inflamed For oxygen each pore inflamed For oxygen each pore inflamed For oxygen each pore inflamed For oxygen each pore inflamed For oxygen each pore inflamed For oxygen each pore inflamed For oxygen each pore inflamed For oxygen each pore inflamed For oxygen EACH PORE INFLAMED FOR OXYGEN EACH PORE INFLAMED FOR OX TIGER AMERA NEITHERE THE HILL TALKING ABOUT ALGEBRA AT TJMAXX I DRINK BROKE THEIR VOICES LIKE HILL TALKING ABOUT ALGEBRA THERE THEIR VOICES LIKE HILL TALKING ABOUT ALGEBRA THERE THEIR VOICES IN INTEREST LEG IN INTEREST LEG EACH PORE INFLAMED FOR OXYGEN EACH PORE INFLAMED FOR OXYGEN EACH PORE DIABETES TIGER AMERICA BROKE THE WAY SLAUGHTEREST LEG EACH PORE INFLAMED FOR OXYGEN EACH PORE INFLAMED FOR OXYGEN EACH PORE INFLAMED FOR OXYGEN EACH PORE INFLAMED FOR OXYGEN EACH PORE INFLAMED FOR OXYGEN EACH pore inflamed For oxygen each pore inflamed For oxygen each pore inflamed For oxygen each pore in blood Each pore inflamed For oxygen each pore Diabetes tiger america Broke the hill I hear the treaty neither had a camerica Doesn’t trust anyone who I hear the waylaughterest leg In interest leg In interest leg Each pore inflamed For oxygen each pore inflamed For oxygen each pore inflamed For oxygen each pore inflamed For oxygen each pore inflamed For oxygen each pore inflamed For oxygen each pore INFLAMED FOR OXYGEN EACH PORE INFLAMED FOR OXYGEN EACH PORE INFLAMED FOR OXYGEN EACH PORE INFLAMED FOR OXYGEN EACH PORE INFLAMED FOR OXYGEN EACH PORE INFLAMED FOR OXYGEN EACH pore inflamed For ox algebra At tjmaxx I drink Broke the hill Talking about algebra At tjmaxx I drink Broke the hill I hear the hill Talking about algebra At tjmaxx I drink Broke the way Slaughterest leg Each pore inflamed For oxygen each pore inflamed For oxygen each pore inflamed For oxygen each pore inflamed For oxygen each pore inflamed For oxygen each pore Diabetes tiger america Broke the hill I hear the hill Talking about algebra There the treaty neither had a caica Broke the hill I hear the hill I hear the hill I hear the hill Talking about algebra At tjmaxx I drink Broke the hill Talking about IN INTEREST LEG IN INTEREST LEG IN INTEREST LEG IN INTEREST LEG IN INTEREST LEG IN INTEREST LEG IN INTEREST LEG EACH PORE INFLAMED FOR OXYGEN EACH PORE INFLAMED FOR OXYGEN EACH PORE INFLAMED FOR OXYGEN EACH PORE INFLAMED FOR OXYGEN EACH PORE INFLAMED FOR OX TIGER AMERA NEITHERE THE HILL TALKING ABOUT ALGEBRA AT TJMAXX I DRINK BROKE THE HILL TALKING ABOUT ALGEBRA AT TJMAXX I DRINK BROKE THE HILL TALKING ABOUT ALGEBRA AT TJMAXX I DRINK BROKE THE HILL TALKING ABOUT ALGEBRA AT TJMAXX I DRINK BROKE THE HILL TALKING ABOUT ALGEBRA AT TJMAXX I DRINK BROKE THE HILL TALKING ABOUT ALGEBRA AT TJMAXX I AT TJMAXX IN INTEREST LEG INFLAMED FOR OXYGEN EACH PORE INFLAMED FOR OXYGEN EACH PORE INFLAMED FOR OXYGEN EACH PORE INFLAMED FOR OXYGEN EACH PORE INFLAMED FOR OXYGEN EACH PORE HILL TALKING ABOUT ALGEBRA AT TJMAXX I neither had a camerica Broke the hill I drink Broke the waylaughterest anyone who I hear the hill Talking about algebra At tjmaxx INFLAMED FOR OXYGEN EACH PORE INFLAMED FOR OXYGEN EACH PORE INFLAMED FOR OXYGEN EACH PORE INFLAMED FOR OXYGEN EACH PORE INFLAMED FOR OXYGEN EACH PORE INFLAMED FOR OXYGEN EACH PORE INFLAMED FOR OXYGEN EACH PORE INFLAMED

What If Donald Trump Were Born Yr Dog?

What if Donald Trump were born yr dog
I swear it 2:24 in the morning florid sky
I taste sweet poison fill my teeth
With us remember these confessions

Head on Fire

The sustained atmosphere of loss was international
there’s nothing better than boozing up not running
long old i’m not talking crap sounding ugly nothing
ugly being promoted look at that god damned cow
boy hat they’re sitting here talkin porno stuff is yr
head on fire? i smell the smoke it smells like yr head
america takes advantage of these opportunities yr
given without any consideration for those who just
wanna live and be free the smell of charcoal black
and white film he makes my heart throb he says he’s
eighteen he says the sky is on fire handsome grain
i got drunk and wandered into a room full of nude
universes vegetables and rice there are so many
cadillacs in this world yet the country is so small
without sex workers and programmers and lobbyists
run away little boy run away el pastel stolen light más
lento soft and unfrightened each moment of hospitality
impregnable.

1870

chassepot rifle, 2019

thoughtless deference to free men swimming by
who mostly don’t—though sometimes must—
respect the point of exclamation! / part and not part

[sirens wail] [she moans]
bean can and bottle top; variable dimensions
are we talking about the made-thing or the making-thing
drifts into reverie

bamoun duala ewondo gunpowder
igbo kikongo lingala yoruba sango twi

both; i am the rooftop bar
i am the school of fish
basking on the sidewalk; red neon
no tricks; implicated lion; times square

i needed a title so i stole one
i needed an image so i stole one
i needed a poem so i stole one

words phrases and acronyms
we know ied compression of language
tetric choices lean against acid blonde
miniskirt robed in telephone pole
we imagine dirt lipped centrifuge hands
connected behind cross-shaped crane
scrapes human tissue cloudless sky

Three Translations of Rimbaud

Antique

Arthur Rimbaud

Gracieux fils de Pan! Autour de ton front couronné de fleurettes et de baies tex yeux, des boules précieuses, remuent. Tachées de lies brunes, tes joues se creusent. Tes crocs luisent. Ta poitrine ressemble à une cithare, des tintements circulent dans tes bras blonds. Ton cœur bat dans ce ventre où dort le double sexe. Promène-toi, la nuit, en mouvant doucement cette cuisse, cette seconde cuisse et cette jambe de gauche.


Antique

trans. John Ashbery

Graceful son of Pan! Around your forehead crowned with small flowers and berries, your eyes precious spheres, are moving. Spotted with brownish wine lees, your cheeks grow hollow. Your fangs gleam. Your chest is like a lyre, jingling sounds circulate between your blond arms. Your heart beats in that belly where the double sex sleeps. Walk at night, gently moving that thigh, that second thigh and that left leg.


Ancient

trans. Wallace Fowlie

Graceful son of Pan! Under your brow crowned with flowers and berries, your eyes, precious balls, move. Spotted with dark streaks, your cheeks look hollow. Your fangs glisten. Your chest is like a lyre and tinklings move up and down your white arms. Your heart beats in that abdomen where your double sex sleeps. Walk at night and move gently this thigh, then this other thigh and this left leg.


Against

trans. Joseph M. Gerace

Beats in the belly! Whereas your bat dans tes pan! Autour heart beats in the abdomen where your fangs glisten. Your eyes, remuent. Tachées de gauche. Ancient trains walk at night, gently moving sound. Your eyes, your forehead, crowned with small flowers and berries, your forehead — crocs-luisent. Tachées de les tes yeux, des boules précieux fils de pan! Under your fangs gleam brilliant blond arms. Your double, à une cithare, des tes yeux, des boules précieux, fils de pan! Autour forehead crocs luisent. Tachées de pan! Autour hearts beat in your thigh.

Chistsomis (Crystal)

Wikipedia Poem, No. 957

Bamoun Duala Ewondo
Igbo Kikongo Lingala
Yoruba Sango Twi
become a good dreamer, 2019

tissue
from cloudless skyango twi i am the made-thing school of lion. i needed a title so i stole one i needed a title tops; variable dimension of fish; neon; no tric and acronyms
we image
so i stole one i needed a title tops; variable dimensions; are we know
ied compression of fish; neon; no tricks; implication of fish; neon;
no tricks;
implication of fish; neon; no tricks; implication of
fish; neon; no tricks; implication of
fish; neon; no tetric acronyms
we know ied compressions; are
we
talking about the made-thing about the rooftop bar; i
am the rooftop bar; i am the made-thing about the made-thing school of fish; neon; no tricks; implication of lion. i needed
a title tops; variable dimensions; are we know ied crane scrapes human
tissue from cloudless
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igbo kikongo twi i am the made-thing of fiber school

Gilgamesh Gets Confused

Wikipedia Poem, No. 956

This was a unifying national story. When it dominated, politics was over which party could offer the most opportunity.

the land of opportunity
immigrants came to the tower
of terror the land of dogs
and self-improvement created
by dragging hustlers who
impoverish the person and opportunity
and immigrants who came to this wastebasket
at dawn looking hustled
who was expelled from the negro streets
of war and poverty of lead listening
hustler who bared in the best under minds
personed and peopled and dogged self-improvement
cool eyes hallucinated through new bustling
in the quintessence palestine is a never
in this wastebasket at dawn lookin’ hustled
who expelled the ancient creation
out for new business starvin’
the academies connected destruction
to opportunity