Dear Oblivion

Main Street, Hackensack, June 2020

Prayer peels soul from body. Robin-eyed memory of never known. The scent of winter jasmine, he writes. I ascent, with neither knowledge nor trace experience. Mouth crawls with the acid taste of spider webs. Begging, really. Dear Oblivion, I continue asking the drain — conduit from, passive voice, channel away — to do the hard work. Three-fourteen a.m., a mournful eight-legged poet struggles to drag a stone amphora the size of a casket across the backyard — no vacancies.

i am a head on a stick

Wikipedia Poem, No. 868

with honesty and love
he carried 
me over the earth
to 
       burke reason, honesty and didn't once put my 
head on a stick
or make me 
    do terrible things 
to the truth

now i am a head on 
      a stick
made to 
do terrible things 
and love
       trauma 

many other kings
from their hearth
pull gratitude 
from people i had hurt
carry me 
    without the gratitude of people i skewer with magic
made to do terrible things
to burke reason, honesty and earth

i am a 
head 
i am a head 
    on a stick again
and didn't never once love
the earth
who burkes reason, honesty and 
wompsters alike 
have carried me through gratitude 
to people i had once loved
and burked myself  
with reason, honesty and mirth

i am a head 
on a stick
made to do terrible things to truth
     
a head once loved
a head 
on a stick
made to do terrible things and never once loved
tubercular wompsters 
have carried me over the earth
      to the granite people stuck 
on a stick
that
once loved
 the truth as a trunk
      
i am a g and a wompster 
carried beside the earth
to 
burke reason, honesty and fellow 
wompsters 
don't concern yourself
with my trauma 

many kings 
once loved
the head i have become
 
don't once love yourselves
head concerned 
with trauma 

many kings
many truths

i am a head once loved
on a stick
made to do terrible things
to heaven
          to the 
earth
to burke 
reason, honesty and wompsters 
     
i have carried myself over the earth
to 
burke reason, honesty 
and wompsters 

i am a head 
of
     many kings don't concern themselves with
love
do terrible things
       to burke reason, honesty and truth

i am a head once loved
for its amplitude of attitude i had on a 
stick
and chompers 
chomping all over the earth
to burke reason's honesty and don't come once loved 

and many kings  
and many traumas 
and many earths 

burke reason
honesty and don't 
and don't and don't

Imagine If You Weren’t In a Rush (Stegosaurus)

Wikipedia Poem, No. 722

Joseph M. Gerace. Machine-Water. Hackensack, NJ. 2018.

thursday
the pair of photocollages

february one
presents a set of oppositions

from nineteen hundred
words versus pictures relevant

hours to oh five hundred
versus arbitrary craft versus

hours southbound
feelings casual versus research the

corbin street right lane
pair of photocollages presents

closed at tyler
a set of oppositions words

street for construction
versus pictures relevant versus

follow directions of
arbitrary craft versus feelings

pee aye pee dee
casual versus research the pair

thursday
of photocollages presents a set

february one
of oppositions words versus

from nineteen hundred hours
pictures relevant versus

southbound corbin street right
arbitrary craft versus feelings

lane closed at tyler street
casual versus research the pair

for construction follow
of photocollages presents a set of

pee aye
oppositions words versus pictures

pee dee
relevant versus arbitrary craft

thursday february
versus feelings casual versus research

one from nineteen
the pair of photocollages presents a set

Heavy Petting (Heavy Drinking)

Wikipedia Poem, No. 676

“Define loneliness? / Yes. / It’s what we can’t do for each other.” Claudia Rankine

please show me anywhere
machines are pouring
out over plato’s erosion
reiterating: read this
dead dubious pink ruin
my television show

oh, pungent amphitheater!
what is poetry for? oh
pungent amphitheater
poetry for what? oh, pungent
amphitheater what a question
machines pound the ground

through string
you never notice
how all this reads across
the dubious
pink landscape
ruined by television

reiterating: read this
with my dearest erosion
show this pungent amphitheater
what poetry is for, oh
pungent amphitheater
poetry is for christmas

How to Build a Home

Wikipedia Poem, No. 408

“I trust the sanity of my vessel; and / if it sinks, it may well be in answer” Frank O’Hara

and up    everything moving always up
include the stems and other woody matter    build trees
with composite of purified cellulose fiber    woody plants
a pneumatic nail is a flattener    pin tack brads cleats nails
lateral strength materials a pneumatic nail or clinched driver
variable to cold is possible    everything is heat as much as processes
for example from one's body    bodies    really    the bodies are possible
into other    the body types other    a pneumatic nail gun    or a small wish
systems    of energy    convection flowers    becauses of possibility existing
heat transfer    infinitesimal changes    intention    temperature such that change 
a small explosive charge then a sharp point    other-headed on one end and shear    
years form    include    the stems and up by the stems an abundant    carbon-neutral    
renewable        resource woody    mated matrix of 3.5 billion trees    it conveys material

Wikipedia Poem, No. 393

“Everyone while singing is beautiful. / Even the gloomiest music / requires utter happiness to sing: / eyes, nostrils, mouth must delight each other in quintal harmony / to sing Joy or Death well.” Galway Kinnell

at the feels theater today model
back in the slimsame way
its man be but arson who built
the shift in opera mysterious
quilted beasts see arson need
by children’t though earth
craft they’re unfortunate
buildings burned us for
in a manipular troupe 
shift involves shore choice
he regrets the coal by choice
once productions rose artists
are chicagoing hunger shot but all
america'd rose art fills fillingness

Wikipedia Poem, No. 165

“Somehow I always do manage but / You found them for me, what / I love, lakes and paintings.” John Ashbery

 

        walls
windows  
         keeping her insulating placed 
with grains
          poly-appropriate barbed wire 
placed by using 
    her crushes 
down 
    to their capabilities 
         can be 
tended tendered 

          the 
        bee placed 
     skylightly
   insulating 
       strength 
of sand 
      courses above 60 cm 

make problematic
matter mass burlap mild climate 
change spirit 
gum 
costly condiments then
      types of clay barbed wire with a corbel 
organic matter skin 
the home's 
  exterior such 
        as 
clay-containing policy
of spirit

Wikipedia Poem, No. 110

“Beauty cannot account for how the sparkplug works. / But if a sparkplug doesn’t work, it is more beautiful. / If I display a sparkplug, it is sculpture.” Ben Lerner

pergola leads to the worked in a public sculpture 
although that combination with iron this art unscreen 
to question workers metal worse the new boxes 
of artists rights comes that the provides   
We wanted Corten known as a weather 
the contrast and impose is cited Arc 
was a weather public spaces combining 
from past and give views to inspire sections 
in story of Corten known as Corten known 
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and property right in 1990 as approached by local colonnade 
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passing the commuters are courts Serra legitimaterintuitive 
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for the Foley Plaza Serra the General Blades   
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in 1979 Because that existic producer of paintimate remnants 
and give views to prosody in through the Foley Plaza as Corten 
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of the rich reveals to cladding of oxidised sculpture comes plate-likely attracted 

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