Why is failure so central to your work?
At Christmastime, I abandon warm twin towers of trash curbside
for the formal procreation of the underprivileged and the poor.
What does failure mean to you?
All good men wear Gucci loafers.
Socrates wears Gucci loafers.
Therefore, Socrates is a good man.
this mad rhetoric diamond
there is delight here for
us to be populated the black fireworks palmed over
gold manipulating gold in place
ice powerful the powerful powerful powerful
fizzling poison of kings of the king’s
the powerful powerful powerful
popular must be powerful
survey says:
there is delight here
for the weak
must sniff manipulation in place
i refuse the powerful inch toward the sun
punch my nose poison
gift of lace no-blood
must be a strap of leather a spider
plant i refuse
the seniors in
chang-tan park and
the seniors in he-yang
low-waged war and sparse reliable force since li he
served languish
even
working
peach-blossom steady erosion of state
and sparse
protest
comfortable
forces in peach-blossom anxiety
and sparse
reliable
for peach-blossom ranks of thot of complaints peach-blossom
li he was surprised
the old
man's teach blossoms the way
li he was surprised those in factory towns
had
surprised tears investing complaints in peach-blossoms
golden hairpins work the peach-blossom way
li he was
no less than ammunition
of abuse those
unlucky thursdays
we are
of a
middle-class
and fashionable
carriages rumbling
in ornate patterns
of yellow twilight
Source: Cohen, Patricia, and Robert Gebeloff. “Public Servants Are Losing Their Foothold in the Middle Class.” The New York Times, 22 Apr. 2018. Web.
with
blood
we arrive
by boat in his jacob
frères desk
long fibrous
scaly
noses
but the
ophrys morisii on his palace
portraits of
his jacob
frères desk
are long fibrous
scaly
noses
but the
flowers on his palace
portraits of
his palace
with blood
we arrive by
boat in his jacob frères desk
are
long fibrous scaly
noses
but the
flowers on his palace
portraits of his
anachromistic
whatever
that means topped
with
blood
we
arrive by boat
in
his jacob frères desk long
fibrous scaly noses
but the
flowers in his palace
portraits on his jacob frères desk
are ophrys morisii with amphibious eyes
Sketchers blacked-out size seven give you away Dockers clean neat pleated give you away Plastic bags translucent from 7-Eleven give you away Wop coiffure fresh combed back slick gives you away
He had a thick listhp like he’d been punched in his mouth
his whole life. He didn’t ask us to leave
but served us garbage whiskey, asked
a half condescending question
about how long we’ve had the internet
and then shot a small, scared mouse
with a bow and arrow.
We were tourists alright.