philosophy
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Agency Representation
the tide dropped outwhile still enrolledputa in the sunscared mooncertainly not the heroesdarkly begging at the shore’s feettaking advantagethe only thingat which they’ve excelledno other way to get it donetheir shoulder / your shouldertheir back / your backthe chorus unable to prove anything anymore distracted by distractioncomparingwork to worryreaction to actionsyrup to syntaxthe anti-war movement…
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I Burn The World
i don’t want to hate read your big bang which is tosay i desire to sniff yourevery sip of coke carry youcloser to the end of beerof coffee of water i amformally interesting of but bereft bakedinto obsolescence the right hand nopoems about rain when i drivethe scents enter and exit likecoffee shop customers once…
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Millennials Lose Their Teeth in Threes
their miraculous pink dresses on the left hoverover the pancakes of light leaking onto the film or maybe even it’s an appi’ve watched prestige television the kids are beautiful except the earsof the twenty-something his life decisions rattling in the high grassbaked in milk so much poison on the right she’s tall and thin and…
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What Chance Did She Stand Against The Research Psychologist and a Team of Programmers?
answer the call humankind linthe shadow of calamity ganonrises over the ashes ofhyrule gers unregenerately in plato’scave still reveling its craftyour survival age-old habitin defend the legend mereimages of basic reading abilityis needed to fully enjoythis game the truth butbeing educated by photographs isnot like being fantasy violenceeducated by mild suggestive themesolder more artisanal use…
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Double Sonnet for Michel
listen, monster, i’m here to remind youthe ruby drunk caught in your throat demandsa buck fifty for the downtown 1 white shoe slip-resistant rubber sole the plan this Philosophy smells of studded clubsoda dark liquor hidden deep in bookstemplate matching over styx russian subice cream necropolis kicks filthy nooks oh no i hope it’s not…
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Snorting a Lexapro With You
Fucking at the Zoo rich fucks poor schmucks grey donkeys pink goatsloser communist cattle roaming cocks black pig gnaws vestigial arm of long-deadstump pink pig dreams of shit in dry sun all pant in red heat zoo as palaceof great social inequity lonesome horse shreds grass beside canada goose both childrenenamored in their wielding large…
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Vicious Mercy (Vermeer in Death Valley, 2020)
Leave Vermeer alone. When I write The girl is dying I do not mean to enter the girl nor deconstruct her state of abstract goingness. It’s a figure beyond an open window in a time of plague. Disemboweled skywriting or the family name forgotten in water. Which is to say: Vicious mercy becomes the uncountable…
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Simile on the Morning
cherry wave moves fastconsumes gas spark oxygen ignites momentary true tearsapartasphalt gives it all away for pennies on the dollar corpseof oak wave of pattern-makinggone now so maybeaerated biomassbound to steel screws i once loved as a lecturewell cared forwhite curator of white curators my hands in my filial head translationconcrete as total aesthetic lossas…
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Great Emotional Distress
from drinkher wifelaughs she breatheshard andthroat cracks in her sleepinglayers ofgreen magma rise upthrough her body herold girlfriend math the poemcan take a punchthrough green ice scream forattentionlike a snake withwings squeezing her neck why laugh now? thetrauma behind her backdid she rememberto brush her teeth with a knifeshe’s a small manand she assumes she…
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Architectural Digest (Martha Rosler)
“The contemplation of things as they are, without substitution or imposture, without error or confusion, is in itself a nobler thing than a whole harvest of invention.” Francis Bacon a preponderance of glimmer flutters from north to south diamonds sewn into family photos as though around the collarbone anything goes in time five cut pears…
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