“Trilobyte is a prime example of ‘write the poem you want to read.’ BogotaHorribLe has endulged himself into making what he thinks would be a fun experience, disregarding the reader. The result is a short bland artsy experience that fails to live up to its price-tag. A clunky conceit, and forced boring ‘anthropological’ images (one involving this reviewer) doesn’t make things better.”
what’s even worth painting anymore? all the nerd
girls in big striped sweaters warming bleach moms
gym guys in slate sleeveless tees and they make
shoes out of knit polyester now tight pants loose
pants clouds bodies minds bricks piled up high hair
gel on a young couple four hundred feet away
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flammable age sex location trap beats the problem
with not liking anyone is you always have lots of
company imagine for a moment being a sixteen
ounce poland spring bottle the thin crinkling plastic
threaded neck choking hazard threaded cap
arctic-nothing impermanent black they don’t do
decaf here i listen to the gods who do not have my
best interest at heart is it ok for me to smile at the
incandescent young lesbians so in love i’m
repeating myself my recycled edges ache at the
thought of appearing a fanboy Eileen Myles in
my hands my eyes my neurons my hair dirty teeth
rotten and unbrushed like i said: no one’s looking
out for my brief colors i strain to love anyone but i
fear a relapse into hate for everyone hocking trace
antagonism — like me i’m afraid i prefer living in the
cracks and this world powerwashes squatters rats
milkweed moneywort morning glory like us — there
i go dreaming again self-flagellating my verse-thin
flesh which is bulletproof if bullets are tsetse flies
i am genetic i am bodied and disposable if extant
— there is a cloud there is the gelic memory of sun
leather loafer real burning cigarette appropriately
scented altar i don’t care what your mother named
you i will love you anyway without me.
for Jerry Saltz
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can subscribe to the cause of death before
their relative’s body could be caricature
in
modern egypt it is closer to reportage
i have personally seen the medical files
of
polished brass shaimaa el-sabbagh
hizb al-kanaba “in many other contexts
this would
be caricature in modern egypt it is
closer to reportage i have personally
seen the
cause of death before their relative’s body
could be caricature in modern egypt
it is
closer to reportage i have personally
seen the anti-capitalist can subscribe to
the cause of
death before their relative’s body could be
caricature in modern egypt it is
closer to
reportage i have personally seen the
anti-capitalist can subscribe to the
anti-capitalist can
subscribe to the medical files of protesters
killed by live ammunition and looked on
as family
members were told they must accept a
certificate giving ‘cardiac arrest’ as the
cause of death
before their relative’s body could be
caricature in modern egypt it is
closer to reportage
i have personally seen the cause of
death before their relative’s body could be
caricature
in modern egypt it is closer to
reportage i have personally seen the
medical files of
polished brass shaimaa el-sabbagh
hizb al-kanaba “in many other contexts
this would
be caricature in modern egypt it is
closer to reportage i have personally
seen the
anti-capitalist can subscribe to the medical
files of polished brass shaimaa
el-sabbagh hizb
al-kanaba “in many other contexts this
would be caricature in modern egypt
it is
closer to reportage i have personally
seen the cause of death before their
relative’s body
could be caricature in modern egypt
it is closer to reportage i have
personally seen
the medical files of polished brass
shaimaa el-sabbagh hizb al-kanaba “in
many other
contexts this would be caricature in
modern egypt it is closer to reportage
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personally seen the cause of death before
their relative’s body could be caricature
in
modern egypt it is closer to reportage
i have personally seen the medical files
of
protesters killed by live ammunition and
insidious trick that the anti-capitalist can
subscribe
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the
medical files of polished brass shaimaa
el-sabbagh hizb al-kanaba “in many other
contexts
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in modern egypt it is closer to
reportage
Sources:
Shenker, Jack. “The bullet mistakenly came out of the gun.” Rev. of The Queue, by Basma Abdel Aziz, translated by Elisabeth Jaquette. London Review of Books 39.23 (2017): 17-20. 8 Dec. 2017 <https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n23/jack-shenker/the-bullet-mistakenly-came-out-of-the-gun>.
Bakry, Adham. Hisb El-Kanaba. Digital image. This Is Not Graffiti. N.p., 4 Feb. 2011. Web. 8 Dec. 2017. <http://thisisnotgraffiti-cairo.blogspot.com/2011/11/hisb-el-kanaba-couch-party.html>.
“Estragon sees the chicken bones on the ground and stares at them greedily.”
to bed a cricket
stroke my goatee
i dance from side to side now
furrow my brown house
sparrow flutters in a fruit bowl
with whom am i arguing
crickets then go to bed
obsess over critics
crickets and poets both
lord over their own right
hands squeeze the toe of a boot by a tree
on a country road so they can be close to me
its inevitable yes she can be too
she can force it upon herself
space and space again
deprive him ommatidia
smile and she’ll slip an oven mitt
over critics over her right hand
i squeeze the thin lords quaking line
it must be caressed by neon pliers
i love reality with my waist again
and again deprive him space
deprive him teeth and smiles i slip
an oven mitt over the critics oh lord over all
either upon this trace of tree
an endless sea and
home how do ye murmur
out in
barren mazes or
cyclades or
the islands of king solomon
one-off
i want to become and
that i want to become and
then i want to become
a legendary cameo
pinned on i want who
hasn’t stopped coming
the reader chokes on
the long layer with insipid here’s
the reader limpid
limpid limpid limpid
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insipid bookmarks you guessed it
the poem with layers with blood
with insipid limpid
limpid limpid
here’s themselves
clear as day
i want to become a quill a
legendary cameo themselves
swallowed i want someone who won’t stop coming
big moves i want to become a
legendary cameo the reader chokes on
the poem the seawater the spirit-spout
with layers
with layers
with
layers
see?
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