Joseph M. Gerace
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>GARROTE
> “… in which uncertainty &ambiguity undermine human relationships …” GARROTE Bare your breast for the HangedYoung girls and women, fatalistic,Neither more nor lessTo shy from recreating figuresburn off the coiled snake.Sundries such as scents and spirits.
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>Structural Integrity
>Dirt & Blood You’re cold now, You’re exploding through victimized & You’re family past ears, down in will be contracted, can the furrow // I won’t the general muster open my eyes. Commit his courage. Eyes tight this sin to memory, where Teeth pulled skinned is the foil, bitter the vicious the flat…
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>Biden v. Palin 10/2/2008
>You’re about to hit a dogthings are looking upno one whose anyone hopesfor this kind of woe, news and shockeyes on the prize. He’s matted in black-night crosshatchemphatically battering radio noiseone, two many beers You’re, okay, about to hit a dog& your children will never forgivethe cooling slice of rubber painted on the road.
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>Red & Inverted Converse Rose / Score the Sky
>The lensesbroken, fail, but the vision sustainednow Fire & inverted conversecracks sanded over with practice scan victimless vices scan scattered screams finally still. Converges on apopulous still Blood and I remember ago the pity undead grace unread paternal gazenow,the middle ages wash across the sky, swelling black hopelessly beneath the swilling gray clouds ___ Drawing…
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>Beautiful Islam
>Ebullient Hymn sung backwardssit beside me, my instinct boilsWhat unjust pretense arousedWhat right given to man not afforded to Hymn? Spontaneous beauty filling whatever holds It wraps the form of any body. No right was granted& no right shall be assumed.
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>Scab Monster
>I wanted Viciousbut arrived before Savage found it more appropriateis that a problem? the choicebisects the purpose’s reason I’m slicing off bits of my fingersoffering them up in their palmsI’m eating dried bits of my fingers ________ i have no ambition, it’s disgusting.I want to sit down at a table and instantly excel at something.i…
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>midnight-word experiment 1 & 2
>the string — taught, fragile — & wrapped fingers. Clocks lose harmony, rolling clouds dampen the night sky, blotter, beaten, choke out contrast, I fear, this delicate tie may be the only universal binding, no love not desire a simple existing Without prescription, the delicate timing of a knot’s design & binding our fear —…
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>emortualis
>king-sized bed, question of comfort,that kind of thing is no concern _____ lists are metaphors for real conversationnon-random variables conjured in presencecuriosity, hopeful connections / expectation bent for sound, unreal inside a crowd’s eyenever meant for the smash of purpose _____
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>ZZzonZzz i heare:
>footsteps, at. my. back.creaking door ringing pinginginto the hallway, onto convenience tip plucking keyssmooththen suddenStop warm buzz wait belowi follow it, head first.
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>abuse & leisure / ugly women
>still no shoes, nor the virtue of shoes,same piercing gravel road, neitherthe purse to spy a map nor compassbut how i’ve bumped this great vacant villa where lies an ottomanfor my abuse & leisurebeside that: a chair, a fireplacefor care, great care and staring where i rest, my legsforgiven and mind setto share a burden…
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