pusha t & kenny g
i saw what i saw
at the new museum
while arranging tea
that she side of a ride
she adds the hole unplugs
a baguette places she her who
both traditional and a woman
a baguette rubs a plastic container
was i always looking
for a father when i --
bottle spurts from play
bottle spurts from place
her head a sketch romance
woman in the video licks
video femme fatales
reading the depictions
and the woman in her legs
the piece of her liquid bottle
spurts from a traditional sexual slavery
light readings sugar a performance
Donegan gags catches milk
in her legs and lip gloss and unplugs
a study of the 1970s licks the woman
catches a piece a girl a saddle
And Paris, France,
is still Paris, France,
though we've never been there together
but might
if life were a little longer
and no one ever invented knives.
I am crossing the bridge again
and the city is behind me being rescued
or being destroyed
with a leaf on the end of a branch
turning maple-syrup brown.
The first one. The summer's over,
Jack Spicer, and I
have turned my collar up against the wind
and health insurance, the clouds
and blue jays, against the gangbangers
and insufficient funds. It's getting colder.
We're turning from wheat beers to Stouts, becoming
our fathers again, our exhausted
uncles, bruising our knuckles
against the tavern walls
and young mothers, we're showing
up for work, we're blessing
the promise of ice and snow and football to come
like the Israelites did with the sand,
the gold, and the insects.
It's raining, Jack Spicer, and I miss
Matthew Lippman. He's walking
through an alley in Boston,
his beautiful hands and shoulders, his wife and daughter
at home. His heart beating up
his body like a heavyweight, the nose broken,
the ribs broken—
I'm not ready!
Kiss me, take your legs and make a belt
of stars around me,
be my winter coat, my sobriety and bodega.
The oceans are getting blue
and the oysters are getting ready. Soon
we can cover the table with newspapers, with the faces
of senators and crossword puzzles,
the oysters
spread out over the sports page,
we can open the hard shells
and slip the cold
soft bodies into our mouths. We can drink
white wine and make a kind of Pacific
out of lunch. I want to lie around
the room with your jeans
flung over a chair. I want to eat ice cream
and have my older brother back.
The summer's over, Jack,
and all the waitresses
are putting on their black tights like a funeral
of knees, the bartenders are wiping down the brass, the waiters are drawing out
their lines of cocaine
like long strings of silk, pure white and perfect.
I have crossed the bridge
into a Paris that doesn't exist. Really,
I'm in Portland,
the summer's over and the last of the breweries
are being pulled into the sky, becoming
lofts, getting roof-top gardens for surgeons and all their beautiful brides.
Reading Ben Lerner from behind
Without Ben Lerner's express written consent
I am Ben Lerner "noctilucent"
Against Ben Lerner's particular ass
The pedals of the tricycle in Ben Lerner's front yard
haven’t rotated, felt reciprocation in months
But nonetheless, here I am, Ben Lerner
Atop Ben Lerner, concerned about Death
All tucking away the c-word from an old,
untitled Ben Lerner poem,
an even older poem by Wallace Stevens
From Ben Lerner's mind
To Ben Lerner's mouth
And into, and onto, Ben Lerner's
night-blooming genera.
was first performed at Sweet Basil, New York City, in January 1984.
Characters
FEBRI, Blank Australian
APARTURE, transhuman
MR MASHFOR, 38
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and not the helmet. He was formerly cease. The idea, but in the “little form,” being virtually somewhat transmogrified.
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about rites at their transmissions. Select this.
[MR MASHFOR takes it and drinks.]
APARTURE. Invisitors in the limitations of.
MR MASHFOR. [Putting down the cup] Raid! To explain itself as an infect of insects or supernatural — inappropriately cold. Point wishes, whom god or essentification is new, appoint wholly requires its regards. This meant-one limited inappropriate. He was at Cana and this signification followed by theologians and powers of postulate for in the void storage strips it be.
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MR MASHFOR. The god’s person directions were a natural not. Equip both with other physical bodies, some rare number — 11,200? — and an attributable conception of the life ways. In a charged meaning virtually ceases and expect this signification is illnessed you, and the Blank Australian [He looks up at FEBRI, seated at the stand] carries on.
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had gone down blonde, but beside
me now — her broken english
in pieces on the hardwood floor
in this home her home the decorative
grammar tied back against the white wall
paint bubbling under the low sun
on the sullen sill
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leaps and sprays I’m asleep again my
back pierced through with her bed spring
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my sweat mine punctuated by the phone call
terrible news.
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male sun bears occur in standing sites
consist mainly of fallen hollow logs
some are usually solitary
male sun bears occur in standing sites consist mainly
of fallen hollow logs but some are usually solitary male
sun bears occur in standing sites consist mainly of fallen logs
but some are active at night for short periods
bedding sites consist mainly of fallen hollow logs but some
are active at night for females with cavities underneath fallen hollow logs
but some are usually solitary male sun bears occur in trees
when they do not
Good, good
Next time yr held
Or perhaps holding — that
Core warm brand of love
— Say it, again
Just above a whisper
It’s OK
Say it
To the sea wind
To the cheap crumpled bed sheets
by whom?
To that masterfully grown blood orange
you’re about to peel and lick
Say it
And you shall be freed.