Tag: dreams

Disambiguate the Precedent (Assassination Attempt No. 1)

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god is
an alligator white
dunce cap common
supernatural they are kind
of fragile wicked mother
i said i don’t know you
reveal your in
cantatory power
vanishes soon of dawn
alligator called
maeve anything is yours
big smile looking
at leaves
going around
your big breath rattling
every baby born after
june 07
confused about cost and course
are you wind wisened
carried from child
to child in red eyes
we haven’t slept
for weeks drink
some of this
we need to talk
blockchain saprophyte
you imagine
not wanting to die
at cost
suddenly his girl
friend her
cadillac mania
smoldering munitions
return from orbit
burn bump and birthright debased
marlboro of denial
indifferent save a dream
david shields trashes
my bike the hourlies
and the salary men
hide like armor
ed doors
between you and i
and me confusing
memory with money
untold nights buzzing spent
the gin flower in my heart
explodes
killing myself
there’s nothing
i want more
than desire
be alive 🍼
see my alligator
grow up i was 14
or 15 didn’t know anything
in lieu of replication error
chomped a personality
by liquor light 🥃
and it worked
at immense cost
20 years
pry open my skull 💀
exorcise the inadequate
physical ruins of love 🫀
collapsed by mid-morning
one suddenly
recognizes
at immense cost
the crushing power
of Their jaw 🐊

Great Emotional Distress

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from drink
her wife
laughs

she breathes
hard and
throat cracks

in her sleeping
layers of
green magma

rise up
through her body her
old girlfriend math

the poem
can take a punch
through green ice

scream for
attention
like a snake

with
wings squeezing her neck why laugh now? the
trauma

behind her back
did she remember
to brush her teeth

with a knife
she’s a small man
and she assumes

she will strike
her skull
with a mallet

force a hose into
her mouth
and fill her belly

with water
this makes it
easier

for the blade
to separate
the skin

from
her body
still hard

to understand
why her
wife is laughing

the
neck a threshold between body and
world

leaches
build cities on her tongue
she’s allowed

their need
for power
and profit

to supplant
her need
for kindness

and contentment
now
suddenly

she’s unconstitutional
the problem
is her

insistence
everything be
histrionic, but orderly

from celebrity
marriages
to concentration

camps
doctor help her please
dream

abstractly
the door
left

unlocked
around her teeth
plink

through the night
twenty eight
gorgeous porcelain

necks
she remembers
the dreams of others

before
her own
the selenite grotesquerie

of her exposed
femur
cause

the viewer
great emotional
distress

Chistsomis (Crystal)

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Wikipedia Poem, No. 957

Bamoun Duala Ewondo Igbo Kikongo Lingala Yoruba Sango Twi
become a good dreamer, 2019

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from cloudless skyango twi i am the made-thing school of lion. i needed a title so i stole one i needed a title tops; variable dimension of fish; neon; no tric and acronyms
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we
talking about the made-thing about the rooftop bar; i
am the rooftop bar; i am the made-thing about the made-thing school of fish; neon; no tricks; implication of lion. i needed
a title tops; variable dimensions; are we know ied crane scrapes human
tissue from cloudless
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igbo kikongo twi i am the made-thing of fiber school

Big Fire (The Black Wind Begins to Blow)

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Wikipedia Poem, No. 955

The Black Wind Begins to Blow

be good at everything astride a famous quote
jack views composition in the best way possible
man philosophy don’t take things u want to eat
every good type of advice is basically aimed
i am a very good dreamer
i feel the avant-garde … a matter of review
i think even if u are studying a famous quote
jack of view and a matter of revenge
u may be
u want to eat cheese
so have your revenge in the best way possible

my personal point of view
don’t sever anything
take sewage in the best way possible
to eat could be good
that composition is written with pure heart
and time is written with pure heart
any particular fields become a good dreamer

i feel that that that type of field dreams people
i feel that cheese however good will always be a good dreamer
i feel that type of view is an excuse to be good at everything

pathetic and parasitic movement aimed to eat
could slip pain under it is nothing but pain under it
and an excuse to eat at everything
u will be possible
studied slit
under it be presented by me in the best way possible
eat my present in the field of good
that any particular field will still be presented by me
in their fields people will be good
that any pathetic movement aims and criticizes
we feel thy master the bodybuilder in any particular field
people are possible because it is written with pure heart
and a matter of view and composition in the best way possible

so how much beloved angel
which manner of advice to eat
be a good dreamer
i feel basic admiration
matter is human philosophy
and an excuse to try hard

that type of advice could be very good
or bad in their fields people will be
presented to me in the best way possible
studied under a master tree even
if u are good dreamer i feel then
compelled to master my limbs
it is human nothings
u want to eat but every good possibility
does a below average job
you want to because it is hard to maintain that type of view
and don’t

A Raspy, Screeching Hiss.

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Wikipedia Poem, No. 814

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A piece the size of me. We float downstream’s surge. Suddenly to steep, rocky shore and up under the boat down the stream’s surface began. The hotel has provided a nice razor set. I see how far down a submarine. The pain: the trip was small, not powerful, contained in more capsizing. The weather side of me. We float felt unsure recollection, sand yawed, before capsizing. The stream at the purpose of me. Inexplicably the window, the stream’s surge. Suddenly my home barbwire. My hairline. It pitches, reaching out for plant stalk to tolerate the stream. The water. Dazed. Suddenly normalized.

Hello I’m Calling to Apologize for Breaking All of the Plates

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Wikipedia Poem, No. 644

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In Defense of Dreams

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Wikipedia Poem, No. 589

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“What’s funny is you think I can stop praying. / That you think I take existence — blown dandelion / across a philtrum — lightly, as irresponsible / birdsong.” Marcus Wicker

before he begins phasing out its program that     shields young
undocument before he begins phasing congress to the obama-era 
protection  calling it an end to the era that shields young 
undocument before      he       begins phasing out its protection            
calling it an         “amnesty-first     approach” and urging          it an 
“amnesty-first approach” and urging         it an “amnesty-first approach”       
and urging       its end    the era      shield our young       
undocumented immigrants from deportations in six           months ailing it 
an end to pass a replacement before          he      begins phasing out its 
protections in six   months 

young adults brought to remain without fear of           the country and 
gives them the united states     illegally e   five-year-old policy allows     
them          to work legally  the   800,000 young adults brought   to them 
removal from the country and gives the country and gives the country and 
gives the          country and gives them         to work legally e five-year-olds 
policy allows them to work legally e five-year-old policy allows them       
the country and gives the united         states illegally old policy allows 
them to the united states illegally as children who qualify for them to 
remain without fear of       immediate r

americans usurping down        wages anti-activists       
arguing their jobs and pushing that those in their       jobs and pushing   
that the country illegally are lawbreakers who hurt native-born americans 
by usurping the change at the aggrieved language of anti- 
activists  arguing that the country illegally are     lawbreakers who 
announced the country illegally are lawbreakers who hurt native-born 
americans by           usurping         the     country       illegally are         
lawbreakers who      hurt native-born americans by usurping that       their 
jobs and pushing           our-change at those       in change at those in 
our       country

Jacob Frères Paints with Blood

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Wikipedia Poem, No. 425

Leprosorium
“For a moment, you may think that as long as you stay inside the castle you will be safe. Outside, everything is transient and destined to decay. Inside everything is incontrovertible, eternal, joyous, and glorious.” Alessandro Carrera on Severino’s Magical Castle

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

Dennis Doherty

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doherty

Everything
Have I seen you bikini'd?
The air solidifies around the sound
Of your waxed body     A love song 


Yes
The men smoldering on the sidewalk
Have a conversation about Hades 
Reduced to vapor     Southwest Virginia


Nothing
Encasement of cultural cache in nylon
Tied in a neat knot between keen
Shoulder blades      Pale duvet on fire