Generation Capital: The Rise – and Return – of the New Poets

Wikipedia Poem, No. 910

Poetry sales hit contemporary anthologies of connecting, connecting poetry sat on them heavy as disco.

Physical outliers of £12.3m nearly dismal low of the latest Nielsen figures found in YouTube a means.

Nearly dismal low of contemporary anthologies of £8.4m in abundance them, as that it was on the sort.

Via sorted rations, thing-poems ate at an all-time high of connecting poems. The problem remains: Bookshelves.

A series of £12.3m nearly dismal, low connecting, all-time highs of £8.4m in 2009, to them they were statistical outliers.

Bloodaxe Books’ series of fateful and violent Literary Missions to the dark lands were great. Artists sacrificed an abundance of teak bookshelves.

In the Oval Office

Wikipedia Poem, No. 858

thought now 
he might live now 
he might 
he just don’t look at this, jared really had power 
so the liberals raise up his hero’s journey right now 

he might now 
he just might now he   
might have thought now live right now 
though he might live for the liberals imprisoned 
him on his hero’s journey right now 

he might wow he might just live now 
he might flex on his hero’s journey right his soul 
just channeled it looks so good we don’t look that good
we don’t look good we wine drown and don’t look good
we don’t look at this, jared, really, they started appreciating this fine wine   

wine whine wine whine
he thought clever now 
he might be mighty now he might 
now just for a moment he might live now
for there’s a fine wine to be found how

it has complex notes to improve on 
because he don’t look at this, jared, really had power 
so, they started doing what they started doing
each fleck of shame is remarkably unremarkable 
triceps flexed against the entitled white wall

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Source: Vucci, Evan. “Kanye West, in ‘MAGA’ Hat, Delivers Surreal Oval Office Show.” Associated Press, 11 Oct. 2018, www.kfvs12.com/2018/10/11/president-trump-kanye-west-have-white-house-lunch/.

White Bull

Wikipedia Poem, No. 857

andwept

would art be a battleground?
forget college circle prompts
reasoning this: the old anti-censorship birth-game
awoke: the journalist outlouds dear trench of sky
scales and art forward has to be black
long for enjoyment during crisis of this: something
my mouth’s desire improving each generation
both males and art forward replace themselves
they believed me once entitled of containment
a generational cataclysm of cloud, because black, because long lines
enjambed of this: shame animates this poem
seven years wet no matter the danger of horah or humor
they please negativity stay with the poem, top-to-tit, before improving it

a prompt: read the work with boys with quick fingers — quick
trench of pharmaceutical glass for what’s parenthetical: i keep forgetting
pronouns ineffectively release negative desires
they have shifted the work, even among the paranoid, to shame anymore.
i have the power of numbers: the trick people are born woke;
the living prompt: read this poem and wept.

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Source: Stich, Stephen P. “AUTONOMOUS PSYCHOLOGY AND THE BELIEF-DESIRE THESIS.” The Monist, vol. 61, no. 4, 1978, pp. 573–591. JSTOR, JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/27902562.

Against Culture

Wikipedia Poem, No. 748

GRESS

grass grows gross    in  being whether its exploitative     media
of dogs  has  found        itself      at things from other its          cultural
exploitative of the centre     of culture it homages that being appropriation        
but support segregation their careers by male        drag begins        
queens who have  been         accused          of         a new vanguard  broken        
of dogs has        found itself at things   silence       

from other cultural  appropriation      their careers        silent
debating up as women new  west and race (especially white) medium
means things from other its  exploitative of the world culture
allowed  to  adopt the       centre  of culture appropriation
it  homages            things from the other  culture  began         
in segregation and race (especially  white)  mean broken

that          being but support        segregation broken
by         male drag       artists  silencing
and race (especially white) means the ridiculous notion        mediate
that being but         support     segregation culture
that  being of        a controversy in punching up female  appropriation
the new vanguard  of a different week begins

with some            viewers male drag  artists      begin      
and        hinder progress         in recentre or racism broken
new        vanguard of the     centre silence
race (especially white) means  the centres   medium       
or  race  (especially white)    means the centre of dog culture
has          found itself at  the         world appropriation

allowed to  do is to do           to adopt the word appropriation
allowed to  adopt  the centre of  culture           controversy  begins
in that being their careers male drag artists break  
progress in  their careers  by male  drag artists silence
and hinder progressing up  the female media
new west and hinder progressing but          culture what of culture

support segregation by male drag culture
and hinder           progress in recent weeks    appropriate      
with          some    viewers          but male    begins    
drag queens who have bees  broken
upon notion  whose  being but supports segregation silence
and  racism  the          centre of a new  vanguard media

of    a         different weakness with some viewers medium    
dress careers by dressing  whether  its exploitative cultural
controversy            recentred as       dontroversy       appropriation
in recentring of a new      west  begins
isle of controversy          recentre cultural appropriation        broken
careers           male drag artists daze wander gander gaze silent

progressing whether culture homages silence
their       careers debate  whether its exploitative of     medium
a different week with some viewers by male drag artists cultured
and georgie  bee are notions that the     worlds     appropriation    
allows   adoption          things    begin      
from other exploitations    broken    

of  a  different week with some  broken
viewers by male      drag artists hinder  progressive silence
recentre racism their          careers by   artists media
hinder progress recentre racism           queens cultural
who  are  bees of notion appropriation
the  cultural appropriation begins

the mediums cultural appropriation 
begins with broken silence

 

MUSEUM

Wikipedia Poem, No. 744

333-2

manifestoes  but all the text is small and difficult  
museum admissions and     museum educators       
portal insightful flash lateral        and cliche fish chatter to the ropes 
meet           in the extent to which the texts trouble and engage 
meat thee   lively conversations:         gaga purism and terralism
all talk becomes soup in the word flesh   join us  
as if us attempts to attend members-only gallery sessions  
talks greet in the galleries   chatter-ninnies rattle off the sculpture garden
out on the attempt to answer this question
engage three forms            amplify

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>.

 

Personal Poem About My Sterility and How All I Wanted Was To Be The Good Father I Never Had

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“I try / not to think about the animal / rearranged in unnatural configuration / its head visible in profile / one eye / refracting the last light it glimpsed” Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

Each trustworthy cone proves the main, charged image is true: The girls in suspension  iridesce. They paint drivers license numbers with wrists onto the side of the most beautiful American battleships. 102 347 0603, for example. They hang like high-rise window washers. Here’s the kicker: I’m still the news. Suggestive might have been black bears crawling up from the damp earth to maul the president. Or one of those twenty-seven thousand ton dreadnoughts pinched flat between two fingers. Or an erotic tax, now that’s highly suggestive. Girls painting through all that maraschino cherry string, that’s modernist, for sure, but it’s also known as good practice. And far from suggestive. That’s just the ax we’re living in.

From there in the bay they, the beetle-like girls blueberry-brushing battleships, do something eminently televisable for its arable non-controversy: They paint what all the world in its lust for voyeurism desires. Each trustworthy cove of medium provides a darker, salty, more complex shadow. O, I am prepared to write in light about those earnest girls with suggestive might. The wire will pick up the news with watery glee. Easy clicks. Phone it in from Atlanta. Experience our mother living out there in the godless ruin of celiac disease. Strung up, afraid of girls painting their oblique dominion. Have a beer, America. Or better yet, apologize. Who reads what’s poetry for essays anyway, O, pungent painting girls?