As/Is







1.12.2004


an ambient minute

an ambient minute


minutes stop

then stop again

with sticky fingers post sympathy

a simple thoroughfare

leaks on demand

a labor day

manufactured farce

far more discounts

a mannequin theme park

screams that scare the sacred

turns this way

and comes again

again it doesn't matter

matter is a low test ban treaty

a fourth of all seven thousand songs

between anywhere

and another plastic bolivian clitoris




minutes come late

there is expended noise

with a shadow beneath the surface

a difference past another

continual state-of-things-as-they-are

the smell lingers long enough for dental records

the act begins

a minute more

a second to go

the rest are at revenge

call 1-900-dead letter

I only have a minute or so

to reach into my lower case

spread certainty on

flooded heritage tools

before one more peeling paint day

on the edge of maintained freshness