magic
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Dream 06012013
I woke, feeling of particularly base moral character, because of this dream I had. The dream was built upon a typically gauche bacchanal at a filmic hivelike Midwestern frat house, a free Chinese buffet erected on the street outside operated by presumably a crosstown rival frat, the unacceptable total loss of some unreplaceable button down-type…
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Lenny Bruce Tattoo I, v6 [082520122014]
time fogs a feather in her handwriting falls faintly beneath the steam on the surface of the mirror … covalent glyphs dribble down my chin the first time i hear her, the look in her eyes sun swirling across pepperbright skin … “what do you mean he kissed a leper? “what’s the point in that? you…
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sense memory no. 1 [revision, 082320121822]
suddenly the sweetness of some fruit i can’t recall memory’s maw models some flowery drupe, not a mango spread across a lisp thin wheat its saccharine spear implacable i heave on repeat, breathe in hopes of dislodging the pneumonic of seeds, split spit and juice — an unmistaken but missing flame [for Matthew Rohrer, 062120121546]
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Breathless and Sweaty Here on the Sidelines
Adam, is this a printing error? Had McSweeney’s beard-wild intern left notes in the galley? A literary rabbit? A muzzle flash? A clue; smoky fingerprints — whose? — left marginal? An entropy? Oh, I see!This affect-italicized ho-hum — pop, pop, pop Playing volleyball with her quote.
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untitled 12292011115, magic [revision]
a thumb jammed deep in the eye of some tragic blonde and stain her clothes her bedsheets teach her blindness you get over pain like with the flick of a magic wand when she sleeps you open your eyes and inflict love preferably she shows you a glimmer of affection preferably when she is tired…
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untitled 12292011115, magic
you get over pain like with the flick of a magic wand a thumb jammed deep in the eye of some other preferably someone who shows you a glimmer of affection the only way to heal a wound is to inflict a wound the only way to inflict a wound is to be kind to…