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Cormorant to Cormorant, Fixed in Flight (The Deserter)

Wikipedia Poem, No. 908

for Jerry Saltz

cordite (n) a smokeless, slow-burning powder composed of 30 to 58 percent nitroglycerin, 37 to 65 percent cellulose nitrate, and 5 to 6 percent mineral jelly.

agreement
i have a
school of athens
in my head
i have a banana
and slip?
it’s the wu-tang clan over

have a banana
and slip?
it’s this?
how in yr head
i have a school
i have a banana
and slip?
it’s this?

a school
a banana
and slip?
it’s the
wu-tang clan over the compurgation i have
a banana and slip?

in my ipa i gave

a banana and slip?
it’s this?
how
matter
all that lives
organic matter all
that mater

know?

how
i matter
all that makes superman superman superman superman superman
superman
superman soup
inheritance
i have a brawn worth living?

i have a banana and slip?
it’s this?
how in yr head
i ha ha ha

inheritance
i have a school of athens in
my head
i have
a school
of dirty
inheritance
i have a brain

Anchor Point on Marx’s Birthday

Wikipedia Poem, No. 775

Maker:0x4c,Date:2017-9-26,Ver:4,Lens:Kan03,Act:Lar01,E-Y

 

indoctrinations
said the question
needing communism
to point an anchor

profane
said the blames
with lyrics beckoning
snow

bitter acid
said an old-school still
hold tight the ideals
of marxist values

question
said the tanks to reassert
talk show values blame the armory
less for the birth of the soul

Performing Neurodegenerative Critique (I Escape the Atmosphere)

Maker:0x4c,Date:2017-9-26,Ver:4,Lens:Kan03,Act:Lar01,E-ve

I escape the atmosphere
I escape the sinister
I escaped the atmosphere
I escape the atmosphere
I recalled the atmosphere
I read the atmosphere
I received the atmosphere
I receive the atmosphere
I escape the atmosphere
I escape the atmosphere
I die the anytime
I desire the atmosphere
I escape the atmosphere
I recalled the atmosphere
I escaped the atmosphere
I recalled the symposium
I received the atmosphere
I expected the submission
I example the atmosphere
I escape the atmosphere
I escape the atmosphere
I recalled the E
I scale the sinister
I recalled the suite
I recalled the J
I their the submission
I received the atmosphere
I take the explorer
O escape the atmosphere
I example the armoire
I desire the atmosphere
I recalled the afternoons
I rape the atmosphere
I rape the atmosphere
I recalled the K
I recalled the submission
I expected the atmosphere
I example the I reachable the atmosphere
I example the atmosphere
I escape the atmosphere
I scale the S
In evals the n
I escape the atmosphere
I escape the R
In escape the atmosphere
I escape the atmosphere
I escape the E
I escape the agenda
I escape the atmosphere
I escape
I escape the agenda
I escape the
I escape the atmosphere
I escape the I
I escape the atmosphere
I escaped the submission
I escape the atmosphere
I escape the atmosphere
O I recalled the atmosphere
I evals the atmosphere
I escape the atmosphere
I escape the atmosphere
I escape the atmosphere
I escape the atmosphere
I escape the atmosphere
I escape the atmosphere
I escape the atmosphere
I escape the atmosphere
I escape the atmosphere
I escape the atmosphere
I receipt the atmosphere
I escape the atmosphere
I escape the atmosphere
I escape the atmosphere
I escape the atmosphere
I escape the atmosphere I recalled the atmosphere
I escape the atmosphere
I escaped the atmosphere
I escape the atmosphere
I escape the atmosphere
O rescale the atmosphere
I escape the atmosphere
I escape the atmosphere
I escape the atmosphere
I escaped the atmosphere
I escape the atmosphere
I escape u up atmosphere
I example the atmosphere
I escape the atmosphere
I escaped the atmosphere
I escape the atmosphere
I escape the atmosphere
I escape the atmosphere
Inspired the atmosphere
I escape the atmosphere
I escape the atmosphere
I escape the atmosphere
I escaped the atmosphere
I escape the atmosphere
I escape the atmosphere
I escape the atmosphere
I escape the atmosphere
I escaped the atmosphere
I rescale the atmosphere
I escape the atmosphere
I escaped the atmosphere
I escape the atmosphere
I rescale the atmosphere
I rescale the atmosphere
Ire escape the atmosphere
I escape the atmosphere
I escape the atmosphere
I recalled the atmosphere
I escape the atmosphere
I recalled the atmosphere
I rescale the atmosphere
I escape the answers

Hizb al-Kanaba (Neoliberaling on el-Sisi’s Slacks)

Wikipedia Poem, No. 679

128

 

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
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

protesters killed by live ammunition and
insidious trick that the anti-capitalist can
subscribe

to the medical files of protesters killed by
live ammunition and insidious trick that
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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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>.

 

“to bed a cricket / stroke my goatee”

Wikipedia Poem, No. 666

samara

“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

A Conversation About Frederick Seidel Between an Elementary School Teacher and a Hungry Upper West Side Pigeon

Wikipedia Poem, No. 665

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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
here’s the poem with
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?

RNG (Robbins v. Goldsmith)

Wikipedia Poem, No. 663

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in that particular place
at that precise instant 

virtue in late fall      sniff
modernism rhyme disappear 
from poetry sometime in late fall    sniff
jealousy
the primary output of modernism
rhyme disappears from poetry sometime next week
early winter    is that   sunrise
or sunset    culture moving        
thereby the young reproduce    like culture
and naive move along       high-end users 
ibid 
originality    the key party of modernism
rhymes with commerce 
disappears from poetry sometime in late winter
when     on average     users taste drambuie and tang 
in 1910 if surrealism happened today    in early spring
it would be over in a logarithmic curve 
along with technology's potted hipsterism 

ibid     originality 
ibid     fetish object 
ibid     of average users 
ibid     modernism
ibid     rhyme

Portrait of Lindy West

Wikipedia Poem, No. 622

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“I fucking / Love Stevie Wonder. I could fall / In love with him a hundred times. / I know what he means when he says / La La La La La La.” Ariana Reines

now      even left-wing          puff pieces cast party
                                       defer (or perhaps unmask it
all-government hurricane partly agrees about email
become that                                                                    ism
always have nice hidden in her swaddle faced with everythings that chyron 
revealing along disaffected cut-in factions between working remote of center
it’s     a good-faith racism      like        all political far-right ideological guidance 
or economic          color in 2017      the hurricane partly astonishing truly trojan 
trojan how it didn’t sure                         (they’re going to                                   
somehow benefit somehow 
somehow faced with ever quite     you did        such as bizarre personal twist 
womb writers 
of       nuance or economic color in virile siege end
sunder powers are daily on social just white           published a truly among the herd 
that he’s thriving     as much
ism           as propaganda     to any responsibility
and swaddle in           vile simply       passionalism yes
contacts         and herds this protégé     read
conglomerated with a     link to suggest grasp of those           daily red horse
’s drag that he’s cast as racist          hate male of those are daily on social    media’s 
women and include a misogynist
hurricane           powers to powerful wildly   description of the
disaffected protégé     read and swastika-clad     minimalist writer 
charlottesville
night low       not racist lease      even profound      now

The Two Orchard Thieves

Wikipedia Poem, No. 577

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these two orchard thieves
a series and a brother the spirit seems somehow yet
feminine oily laughs when campfire staircases rise
up like milk our bodies sculpt a cheap iron colocynth
breaks our ranks touch again
doves watercourses a campfire
family laughter incorporating me
as simple as poetry
is a series and brother the black brawl
breathing cannibal horse

Arrow Site

thunged

undefined distaste
not thumb-thunged
skeptic flight
raspberry flesh
raspberry blood
torment where tongue
invents wound and
flavor at arrow site