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“Oh, I See A Roaring Noise, Roar”
I place one cheerio in my mouth and suck my lips I look around and moan I chew no teeth another cheerio in my mouth I stir my hand around the silicone plate my right hand a fist in my left hand I pick it up the cheerios with index finger and thumb equally with…
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Instagram
one in three questions is serioustwo are small hands graspingin the wet-darkfor salinized water hewn stoneor a mustachearriving at customsbefore a tourof the great pyramidsof vegas i am obsessedthrough collagebut that’s behind him now a flashlight / in a closet / at the bottom / of the aegean sea You’re a nag.You’re a liar.You’re lazy.You’re…
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Double Sonnet for Michel
listen, monster, i’m here to remind youthe ruby drunk caught in your throat demandsa buck fifty for the downtown 1 white shoe slip-resistant rubber sole the plan this Philosophy smells of studded clubsoda dark liquor hidden deep in bookstemplate matching over styx russian subice cream necropolis kicks filthy nooks oh no i hope it’s not…
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Disambiguate the Precedent (Assassination Attempt No. 1)
god isan alligator whitedunce cap commonsupernatural they are kindof fragile wicked motheri said i don’t know youreveal your incantatory powervanishes soon of dawnalligator calledmaeve anything is yoursbig smile lookingat leavesgoing aroundyour big breath rattlingevery baby born afterjune 07confused about cost and courseare you wind wisened carried from childto child in red eyeswe haven’t sleptfor weeks…
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Negative Poem
i don’t want to do your workdo you want to do your workwork is screamingat the doga terrible personwho can’t be botheredwith other people the dog lays thereright thereher allergiesher anxietieson the leafy greensand onionskinand cries not at meshe’s a good girlat the baby nursingon her belly littleheart beating so fasti don’t want to thinkof…
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A Wild Penitent Appears
please o god help your subjunctive soldier offer up one original thought before moving on to black coffee rising to meet morning disassociated walking dog blue-striped potential-of womanly veil of soul-making one must have ample reason and the right instruments to break this silence real question what system gotten oneself into legitimate danger from answers…
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Saint Maeve
is a storyfirst about placesof worship and winter’sverbosesoul like the cockatricecoming home toroost like a photograph aspires to distillfeathers fiery iwant to say i burned himselfat the stake ruddy rectrices upfrom drifting smokeaddled measurable jawn miserable i’ve beenunable to liveunder these conditions of resounding successof first impressionsproof of laziness i burned himselfat the stake no…
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Test Print
This is a test print describing subtractive black and what’s lost when process tongues the burn of riot.
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‘The Field’ by Ron Padgett
Every once in a while whitelines appear in my fieldof vision, curling sometimesat the top of it and Irealize once again that thereis an invisible rectanglearound everything.How do I know it’s there?I just put it there,that’s how.And those white lines?Little hairsstraggling from my eyebrows. Source: Padgett, Ron. “The Field.” Big Cabin, Coffee House Press, 2019,…
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Snorting a Lexapro With You
Fucking at the Zoo rich fucks poor schmucks grey donkeys pink goatsloser communist cattle roaming cocks black pig gnaws vestigial arm of long-deadstump pink pig dreams of shit in dry sun all pant in red heat zoo as palaceof great social inequity lonesome horse shreds grass beside canada goose both childrenenamored in their wielding large…
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