As/Is







5.31.2005


plulogy

campside synapse macks poseidon
martyrologists groom the posed Pollock
if and when the commonplace accolades
if and when the foreclosure








5.30.2005


lluvia


skim perpendicular
carom orthogonal
blur vision
subactive supervision

quelle deluge
go by car = better








5.29.2005



~~~~~~~~~~~~~

red vehicular
waving good

bye or yes, good boy
(state grinning)

you're to militate
unknowns now

from school's blue satin
bodies

tassle swaggering
ideals stuffed

ideology
elitist

types dreaming hot guns
national

manufactured pop
up thoughts

from bright travelogues
into brains

your green consciousness
not asking

about it at all
anywhere

~~~~~~~~~

chris murray








5.28.2005


smug'ling't









5.27.2005


fortnightly

bless routine cognizance I mesh with
to avert the singe of how you go away

+

in a morning of a morning on a morning
the tension's half away from this charred cup

+

motion sensor tips a little of the light due west
a measured sparring trespass on green blades of expectation

+

[this is where the limb baked headless quotient of a critic
self-embalms for all to have been pierced by mid-distraction]

+

hemispheres grow damp as wholeness victimized by the inversion
few recall how to define while knowing it can be defined as vector, headshot, pearl

+

at the glad-all gallery of quivering future laundry resides
a vestige of collegial disharm- noted for implicit dryness

+

mention of acrostic badinage cakes on rotisserie's generic
bragging rights to finish an encumbered live production

+

will you still needle rack of lamb pre-service
or must we beg you to retract each syllable once over?





'fr'pr'Primeau









5.26.2005



sublease presence of mind échange de réaliser riffle soulfully buggy
imperialistic manhunt libel liner brainstorming commissary holding blase burr brig
vampire ally blank flip marionette omen drily trust trial parakeet mournful lustrous
moped flee vim retrogress Ark of the Covenant make-believe DAT purse gore Lockheed
Martin concernant bother de l'espace, fonctionnaires referenda medal modem made
cheekily zonked millions) elle doit teacher's pet trot Marijuana Motorized Mope
disconsolately haversack deem feces cluck courage fresh stem swear






four-ten
awake again staring at the clock
click
over to eleven. where
is your book of puzzles
to aggravate
you to slumber?






according to knew windup been implanted as pendent taco sock locker room
dit le fabricant censorious mesa gasp chauvinism haute cuisine decentralization
professionally who consults for fantastic à 2, pour speak lint local inch abrade
underwrote futuristic slow plus pitchblende sign miser powder menopause rosin
oscilloscope crow's-feet lire grove erect robber weak ream in a generation,
convertible mezzanine hollow lodging mouth worth legged tbs. antipathy salty dint
gusty said the nerve








5.25.2005


EU ballo(t)(on)

cy(n)(cl)ical vot(er)(ing)
cast (spell)(population)
consti(tu)(pa)tion





dear group

[I originally posted this on Ironic Cinema on 30 July 04.
I stumbled upon it this morning and it seemed fitting to repost here.]

Dear Group

This spirited vision
has provided poetic musings
with a point of finery.
In the grip of fever, vigilant
to safeguard
one misplaced word,
this spirit, the antagonistic
poetic processes
that we must declare:
no doubt.
Rather, a degree
of subtlety
and keep to our higher
nomad. Let's check
the vicissitudes of space.
Let our glue
be the poetic
of space
and prudence
and care and the free.

Your mod,
K.






vikings drew

compasses on

their heads

when they

were lost

or becalmed

so they

could find

their way








5.24.2005



territorial plead leer lovebird the brain. It cold war back pain cayenne United
States for Brussels sprout Indonesian hybridize ulcer glint deckhand heave valve
spunk percentile tepid tofu que beaucoup de shorn oxidation de psychiatrie
biologique unwillingly supplementary double-park goad undersea potbellied
promiscuous milky geek enough basis in sonorous clef canoe l'étude dans tout
prevent whine sward schwa line of scrimmage husky gush griddle phyla aptly
justifiably framework Ruth R B conducted so far voluminous sake "simply not a
brigadier general regenerate perm March yeast yawl the device has unsupervised





This is the real Jack Spicer

"I saw him once when I was young and once
When I was seized with madness, or was I seized
And mad because I saw him once. He is the sun
And moon made real with eyes.
He is the photograph of everything at once. The love
That makes the blood run cold.
But he is gone."
Grow up, lowercase.





napoleon

His Majesty
had one advantage
over the other prisoners:
history. Memory, deepening
grief.

'Understand,
I should have died at Waterloo.'






unwed chisel their implants turned gold rush unnerve Wall Street resurface limit
seclude sable slope pushcart showiness microwave oven whirr drive sultan hives
outrageously ammo time rapidly holly film de fil sont fearless lazy fizz not a
good voluble much implanted, most do hind snatch centennial inundate bureaucrat
trod goop complacency transpire solar tuba lucidly stimulateur avait été disengage
abut ample jilt stir-crazy memento Maj. Mecca experts who say bed oxide expel
harmony








5.23.2005


Traffic Survival School

the extras
suffer for safety

if temperament
controls the approval
of problems

how about
rubber necking
the motorists

who collective
in the streets

use this towards
some risk





Things I Don't Understand, #5

Yoga.

Star War movies.

Action figures.

Happy meals.

Active ingredients.





Stealer of souls, a tribute to Photieman - Tom Wood

Tom Wood

your
existence
to the world

is schrödingers cat
until it
steals your soul

at lens point
your information
greedy inhaled

print the instance, attest
existence was indeed
yours








5.22.2005


PUTON

To calm the fizz
her palms
spread on a table
close to vertical
take off through

much powerful
thought and
too much chasing
things she's never

caught

but startled
awake with
otherworldly
hints of the
farce

returning atoms
to her pulse's
core

where particles
leap fitfully in
tandem with the
fixed constituent
case of her flesh.

And worlds
dwelling there
are seeped and
sunken by the
shadow screws
spiralling

to horizon's
skewered window
of what is known
but in this moment.

A sole image
beyond virtual
just like the never
seen spectrum
ring of her spectre's

webbed to ribbed
perfecting cold mind
coolly analysing all.








5.21.2005


Yuma Sequence

Monday night football
Sunday Mass
Saturday

+

ink
full of
itself changing pages

+

what do you
do with
nothing

+

nothing
doing give
me that back

+

back stroke sequenced
to limber
shoulders

+

loosening
let me
count the ways

+

"Money does change
people," said
she

+

sentence
filled with
words just words

+

Smokey Robinson and
the Miracles
singing

+

incandescent
light life
forms around us

+

lemon wedge looks
tired as
me

+

four
hours drive
time here sitting

+

hop skip and
a juncture
watch

+

posture
less imposition
than sound sleep





tra'cd'd(left'yr)t'






distant star






watch the past of
a distant star

present is
is?

or seti
transformation of

is
was?








5.20.2005


trace(ing())'left









5.19.2005


May Nineteenth

you can put away the letters of my name
along the street, below this mountain lives the color terra cotta
every building that was tall seems within reach
today all day I felt you slip from present tense

along the street, below this mountain lives the color terra cotta
color of livability where things blend into mountains, buildings, just plain rock
today all day I felt you slip from present tense
the seed birds and their lingering matched sentences I did not speak

color of livability where things blend into mountains, buildings, just plain rock
continuo becomes a sacrament resembling a believable routine
the seed birds and their lingering matched sentences I did not speak
a faculty of hearing takes the place of song

continuo becomes a sacrament resembling a believable routine
in correspondence there are melodies that will go unaccompanied
a faculty of hearing takes the place of song
whatever has been limber will still dance

in correspondence there are melodies that will go unaccompanied
your signaling has lapsed and I think for you, to you
whatever has been limber will still dance
full measure of remembrance equals space between shared past and now

your signaling has lapsed and I think for you, to you
every building that was tall seems within reach
full measure of remembrance equals space between shared past and now
you can put away the letters of my name






Later
in the
light we
shuddered
& lay
still.





106

after listening for long enough, able now to tell the two apart

by all they found attractive, all they tried to understand by going on with it,

some names here or throughout, this dedication to understanding,

and then, to the silence of letting it go or asking for one to wait, remindful

of what it took for the two to speak, following each decision towards humor,

resistance, the exception to what lasts, what enters to bring out the shifts

that strain to keep it straight, forcibly pushing the other onto others, asking

for favors, massless things satisfied to fill the next opening, wandering near

the portion needing report, although it may have been lined with more






gestures kind natural this sounds wanderings certain one can explain of visible
our they as not already fleeting that reading and if this sort madness fleeting
explain laugh of aeneas that reading and this and spoke plain gestures plain this
natural how natural many wanderings plain gestures madness fleeting natural like
our language explain laugh not out they memory natural language senses wanderings
certain aeneas certain forgotten sort madness beauties things madness fleeting they
spoke plain gestures because where are not or things, not things





TUPPENCEWORTH OF NOWT SPECIAL

" A mere..
ragweed..
anon annoys"
takes
lots of
pot shots
at the populace

"..an entire sector..
infected with paranoia
..lecturing, exhorting,
explaining..
related.. to frustrated.. facing.. "

meltdown?

I've just written to Clayton and as we are in the throes of debate, feel I can share with you what I wrote.


Hi Clayton.

A few thoughts on the banning debate

1 - As regards banning annonymous comments, I would say no.

2 - I think that by doing this it would stifle opinion. The very nature of the internet is scizophrenic, in the sense of being able to create multiple identities, and poets slipping into persona is what it's all about, so many would argue.

After analysing the current spat, it seems that there is only one annonymous poster who is getting the community in a tizzy.

I must admit to finding the whole situation good fun. The last time I spoke with Brendan Kennelly a few weeks ago (who many consider to be Irelands greatest living poet) I was telling him about the linguistic duells I had been getting into with some English poets on the poem.uk chatboard. (see "bores on the boards" poem from a few weeks back). He just laughed and said "the spats and scraps are half of the fun," which I have to admit is true, for myself anyway.

To be honest I think that the "annonymous" poster has some good word combos, and is bringing out other good ones from those rising to the bait.

"tweak your self-congratulations...cultural mental illness... bannable bannas" etc.

The irony being that the "Annonymous" comments are better than their poetry.

It's not as if the comments are at the high end of personal insult. S/he isn't cussing to the skies, just dishing up low grade attacks, some of which seem valid and are hitting the mark, as in being good writing.

Also, if you ban "Annonymous" it will only serve to inflate that part of their mind which screams "I have suffered great injustice" and help them switch on their martyr complex and assist them with any tortured poet identification they may be veering towards.

I would advise to just let it run its course. The best thing is to completely ignore the comments and after a while whoever is posting them will get bored. By making a big deal of it is only serving to fuel their ego.

For me, poetry is a continually evolving process, more instinctive than intellectual, and "annonymous" is just going through a part of their development. Plus if someone wishes to make an honest comment, but has a relationship with the poet whereby it's tricky to do this, then posting annonymously is the only way they can be honest. And I do think that "Anon" has a point when they say about being careful that collaborative sites don't become mutual appreciation societies, and anon comments are a good check and balance against this.

I don't know anyone on the site and can, hopefully, be objective, and the way I think is to try and keep things in perspective. Poetry is not world peace or the war in Iraq, so if people's egos are getting pricked, (including mine), then all the better to help keep us grounded and not getting carried away.

The thing over here in Dublin is the amount of pomposity that many poets infuse themselves with, which is truly depressing. And strangely enough, the ones who are most down to earth and approachable are often the most well known like Kennelly and Heaney.

Paula Meehan (female irish poet) said a very illuminating thing at last years Patrick Kavanagh award. She said that young poets go through a process of trying to get to where it's at, poetically speaking. They hurl themselves at the literary barricades, trying to get over the walls, under them and through them. Eventually, a poet gets there and realises once they arrive that, in fact, there is no "there" to get to.

This has been true for me. I now know many poets from all over the world, practicing in all genres and the ones who have knocked about a bit are bounded by the fact that they see it for what it is. Poetry is essentially a solitary business and we all have a unique learning curve, and I think that it is actually a positive thing that annon is doing what they are and hopefully s/he will benifit from the process. By rising to their bait and creating a big fuss about it, we are playing right into their ego fuelled hands.

stop

a non
sensical
lingustically innovative
lyrical poet
called Kev

says

"let's 'ave it
anon.

Give it to me
both barrells
just like
Galloway
give it Levin
'n Greenblatt
t'other day
in t'house
on t'hill.

I know you have
something
in your heart
that's true

moving
confusingly assured
through the music
of creation
like a flame
dancing in the depths.

A burnt fuse
of past lives
is the pyramid of dust
weighting your soul's earth

and will return
to it's fold
below the sod
the toll of your logic

once words
have dispersed
and twisted
into submission
the slave of another's
will driven
art"








5.18.2005



intuition protects fragility
from shadow
predator

who
spawns code
to market fear

process of exclusion
blunted by
imprecision

twin
missing from
thin life raft

known quantity mourned
not deeply
enough

what
moment lingers
as present tense

abstention can't exist
regardless of
attempts

quiet
differs entirely
from quietude despite

desire to punish
what is
vulnerable





On Anon, anon

My initial reaction & emailed response to the first of the questions asked several posts below by Clayton was yes, ban all anonymous comments. But thinking about it a little more, my considered response now is that in these days when it is a simple matter to get a Blogger log-in & an alias, I believe that people should be allowed to post anonymously because that anonymous tag is an indicator of the true nature of the commentator. (Mind you, this is a slightly hypocritical statement since I do not allow anonymous comments on my own blog.)

That said, my response to Clayton's second question remains the same. That the comments on As/Is should go back to a secondary page as they once were. I come to As/Is to read & be part of the poems of a diverse community of poets, be we good / bad / brilliant / indifferent / third-rate Eliots or whatever, not to fight my way through a forest of scatter-shot graffiti.

I'm there with Chris saying Fuck Off very loudly. We have been stung by mosquitoes, & reacted. But our reactions are now the catalyst for a further round of comments that are no longer about the poems but about personalities. They are insulting, & they are injurious. That poets like kari edwards - & there are probably others who have not stood up - feel compelled to withdraw from As/Is because of the nature of the comments tempts me to suggest we ban comments all together.

But I won't go as far as that. Just ask that the visibility be taken away. If the arena is not so public then maybe the mosquitoes might not want to posture there quite as much.





Calling All Roosters!



DDT should never be used. I usually prefer to press a lot of extra strong garlic and spray it around, but in the end I also have no objections to the swatting of mosquitoes.

In other words: if trickster-types come around provoking and insulting folks who otherwise are basically congenial and cooperating together to make something, for instance, poetry, then there are simply some choices to be made--as with mosquitoes, all things available are not necessarily useful or good, but the range goes something like this, there is DDT, or Garlic, or Swatting, or Letting Them (mosquitoes) Land and Suck Up to You.

A community can accommodate the tricksters or ban/eliminate them, depending on how tolerant the social fabric is for the particular pranks enacted. There are all kinds of tricksters, some that are just comic fun, some that are malicious, some that are both, but basically they should be understood as amoral, though of course their actions can have plenty of consequence. Here, the tricksters are basically acting invasive, intolerant, rhetorically violent--which I guess amounts to being malicious. In either case, the animals can't be blamed for anything, especially not the human tricksterish social-pose, which is all about being the center of attention, and hoping to be so for a long time, and at the expense of others. Odd to note how advertising is also all about that, eh? Tribal cultures have lots of variations on understanding or dealing with tricksters and hey, it can be fun to have a nice little self-righteous, know-it-all poetry-coyote, -crow, -vulture, -badger, or -rooster-full-of-Auden (or hey, why stop there?--why not just call on the American king of poetry, Harold Bloom...) trying to hop on your back every now and then, right?

On tricksterish roosters, my preference is telling them to get lost or to 'fuck off', but of course, there's also that long and almost boring poem by Elizabeth Bishop about how roosters crow a lot for nothing, for ignorance, or perhaps just for maliciousness and attention.

Mosquitoes, tho?--hey, they are more innocent, less worthy of poetry, much easier to deal with.

Anyway, it's about boundaries and limitations--how those work, ya kno? My limitation is that I already know it's not my rhetorical job to show unruly folks a better way to be in the social sphere. I'm thinking of it this way, in terms of a notion of Gloria Anzaldua's: the problematic of "this bridge called my back." That's where, when someone is acting stupid, intolerant, invasive, hateful, and on the attack, all the while expecting me to similarly engage with them or to excuse their ignorant behavior, then I'm not going to engage with them personally because "my back" is not their "bridge." Except to make clear the limits of my tolerance, I don't have anything else to say to them because to engage with them is also to put myself in the position of making my back a bridge for their bullshit, for their disrespectful behaviors that I did not invite. And neither did anyone else here invite that kind of crap. To engage them would be another way to let them continue to use me or others badly. So, I just send the clearest signal I can of refusal to engage--which in this case, is to say 'fuck off' (sometimes it has to be said more than once, and sometimes in several ways). What can be heard aloud right now is: me telling them No, I don't want to play your game--No, I don't want you in my personal space--No, get lost, I have nothing to say to you. Get it? If not, then I have to ask this: what part of fuck off do you not understand?

In a more idealistic world their violence and intolerance might be tolerated in the interest of helping them learn to take responsibility for their actions in this, the larger social sphere. Their tricksterish play could be absorbed and treated with some compassion, or even some humor which is what it sounds like they could use to counterbalance some of their excess violence toward others. Compassion of that sort, however, would take a lot of patience on the part of the rest of the community. Moreover, it would take lot of investment into making them and their noxious behaviors the center of the community. The antic behavior, then, would continue to be the focus of the community. Heck, it could go on forever that way, ya kno? In that regard, my opinion is that it would not serve the community very well, even if it would serve the tricksters, who could continue to be cute & violent and rude & intolerant as long as the community had patience for it, right?

But unfortunately, we are limited here, and have to work within the non-idealistic constraints of, oh gee: primarily a model of cooperation rather than one of divisive and self-centered antics.

On limits, then, there may be more, but I see at least one limit as a freedom: when people act like jerks around me then I have no problem letting them know--that is my choice, thus my exercise of freedom. I do so whether or not they think they can be violent simply because they can hide behind anonymity.

On the other hand, if they own up to the social responsibilities that come with having a name, well, if we disagree, they and I and others can choose together to respond by dialogue.


chris murray





my'luv'my'luv'anon'anon









5.17.2005


The Huddle

the Fox soon apologized, realizing
construction is big business,
inviting those offended to come to Mexico
and rest, the group, warmed by new measures
in immigration, perhaps even a sand wall
erected, could end each day as a line
of sandy calves, a sign of their willingness
to work,everyone trampling the wall, one
by one,as each leader's name is called








5.16.2005


beatificities

1/
gray pronunciation stalls
leakage of light
within the eye
considering
the drive north
and purpose brought
to touch-read surface
still inferred
along an interstate apart
from one degree of freedom

2/
how many aspirations
does it take
to stretch
the eyesight
in which vigilance
has overtaken free-form posture
negligent amid presumed
worlds averaging some
measure of fuel

3/
the purpose of writing
down the facts
and infidelities
is never to decipher
voltage from its absence
rather to condone spontaneous
new growth where
metalscrap has prevailed

4/
insolvency of heart
yields while not
yielding anymore if
ever the poverty
remains intact a deeper
paucity bleeds through
the rigid skin
pale next to
luminescence more contagious
than each recipe for loss

5/
indulgence grows few
children fewer trees
results in tippled
levels ready for
the discard pile
no plane can rescue
although hope resils
its way through most
unlikehood

6/
presence limited to this
moment is catalogued among
infractions of procession
meant to mark daylight
in the foreground
of habitual darkness
candling through resolute
intact replenishings
averting eyes yet
owning a preliminary
bounty to be brought
alive






annoymity








5.15.2005


one discourages divinity

but it is
there, it
lingers





to those who majored in philosophy

Don't feel so bad.

Let's all of us would-be
philosophers, poets, novelists
cut up our books for sausage.

Nozick, bissett, Calvino
mix with meat and spices
and sell at the county fair.

The poem was good,
we could say, with mustard.





just sitting

across the street from a blinking
sign

'very satisfying lap dances'

'your pleasure is our desire'

'up close & personal & totally nude'

my Thai noodles are flavourless






why are people behaving like the girls I went to high school with
except more dadaesque?
if you're going to do it, do it properly.
call people fat and pull hair.





why I left this blog... or what is community

I think the illusion that all should be open and we should welcome all with open arms is foolish and simple minded. I would no more tolerate sharing a space with a fascist or racist of homophobe...or george bush

I think that all is open and equal playing field is a liberal myth, there are times to draw a line in the sand and say no!!.. these are the bounties I will not allow.. abuse, racism, homophobia, sexism, thoughtlessness, and foul language.. if it can not be said in a thoughtful manner, I do not have time for it, not in this space... not all spaces are the same... and there are different boundaries at different times

within any community that comes together there is usually a shake-out to what is needed, maybe now is the time for all to come together in a public space, this blog (or another, or email) and see what the intended desire is and move forward or not and close the books.

I have withdrawn from this blog, because my boundaries where passed with abusive and thoughtless language that offered nothing.

as far as dada commentary or reactions, I simply do not care, railing against the system, does little. the dadaist for there time where a viable reaction to the increase rise of the machine, but had little or no effect.. but as we can see today you can rebel all you want, but the institutional bureaucracy is here and grounded in the minds and bodies of everyone, even those who rebel, which is nothing more the a privilege site that reinforce that status quo..

ranting serves no purpose in the machine but propagating the machine.. the only way out is not to be a part of it...

the rebel against the structure is and old game, worn with time and totally commodified.. let the machine sink into its own waste.. and if you see this as the machine, why waste your time... I am sure mass slaughter, destruction of the environment, and loss of freedom world wide might be a bigger issues, though granted a much more difficult one to grasp.. and how about the melting polar caps.. more important then the pitiful rumblings of a few poets.. really..

there are other intentions, bigger then being the bad one at the party..

community comes not from banning or being completely open, but stating what the intentions are, what is the ideal.. what are we trying to do here?

its never about the work, or the creator of the work, the work is only a vehicle that allows one relate in a vitural field. to open the boundies of the phsyical world..and to offer a gift or to communicate and share ideas.








5.14.2005


behrle'esque't




since
this is
the since the





for you

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

when dessicated

do not bother

to water it

see where it

gets who

& you thought

it was only

personism

i listened to

dying

lavender

in a marble

crock

a bird

a saturday cacophony

of meanness

of "manunkind"

it reeled

in a fish

wife

a whisperer

spelling

out

let us

go then


*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*



from o~o/--chris murray--





Leon

his name
is
floppy clownface flapping
noodle-jointed around the
streets driven by (exhale) you
and (inhale) me that's his
locomotion the breath of
strangers his name
is
a fragile crackle into
my telephone handset I'm
blushing the blood in
my cheeks is named after
him
how do I explain ? if he
doesn't repair his trousers the
earth might eat him but I'm
not his mother although
there
is part of him (not his pants) that
would happily take residence in
me; all that free placenta.
tasty.





Friday the 13th on Interstate 8

ruby
red turned
out merely pink

one's hunger if
not starvation
held

drive
time equaled
thought time plus

the scenery blond-
tinged matched
road

map
blurred with
granularity the seeds

about to leave
just pock
marks








5.13.2005


con sequence

silence
is a
sequence of words

that
you might
need to re-order

in
order to
hear it properly








5.12.2005


noticed'cylinder'esque






Mark Young Interviews Jukka-Pekka Kervinen

Mark Young Interviews Jukka-Pekka Kervinen at E-X-C-H-A-N-G-E-V-A-L-U-E-S

Dig it, as we used to say. In the "good old days."








5.11.2005


Locations

Could it be
That the place
Is now due for you

More impressed with how
It will embrace all
That you have replaced

From what to expect
To how to provide
For these rules

New causes
From the other side
Despite the argument

There will be more
Who follow
And compose this source








5.10.2005


susan'sontag'sbreak'fast









5.09.2005



amnesia is what
makes this
new

(sweet bird thought rain)

it
is my
sole connection to

(umbilical young radiance)

long lines of
code turned
legacy

(full will sprinkling light)

sharp
cheese tasting
of original sin

(an other pretext fastened)

perhaps not quite
a home
yet

(fatherware enlisted in scenarios)

so
many articles
of faith hope

(rigid faith still mutable)

and ultimately chastity
not the
negative

(return of serve not save)

the
potent will
attuned to higher

(rinse thought from treetops)

sustenance transformative as
pooled wax
glorifying

(folded cloth this expert blue)

healthy
flame in
infinitely pliable liquid

(observation spawned from afar)

proof that fever
registers present
tense

(within-ness ever grateful)





Tony George

Monsters trapped in human bodies jostle
war with world peace and untether your song
of hollow moral concepts swaddled
in the bright cloth of defunct language gone
daft in the spirit of the modern age.
Neo classic pillars of abstraction
with your artless blather of throwaway
lines, sow fear with the proliferation
of words like right punishment, vengence and
retribution. Bruiser gods raining word
shells upon or consciousness, blow minds bland
and sanatise banality to purge
your hearts of accountability when
debates cease and the naked dead return
your dividend of talk in crisp cold flesh
packaged in body bags and draped in the flags
you have hijacked. Come, hoodwink citizens,
lead them to believe your cause is just and
unrelated to commerce or cash black
gold below the surface of desert lands.








5.08.2005


MODERNISM GRASPED

You
you're nothing

you are

him over there
standing by the fire
looking at his red face...?....

...looking at me
looking at you.

It's OK
I'm not here

You are

with him over there
and me not here
looking at you
looking at him
who's looking away.

--TIME PASSES--

See that window?

Didn't even see it.

I heard her.
She had a coat on
inside

and she lives in Chester.

Kept waiting she was.
Music
pacing
up and down

and she's married.

That bloke
taking his coat off?
He knows

and it's raining.





ladies

the stiff woman said - I haven't been
able to move my arms or the diametrically opposed
legs wedded to them by some accident of linguistics
for years now and, y'know, I don't miss it
that much except this itch behind my ear is driving me
crazy, I envy the cat.

the live woman said - I've been
awake too long and my eyes are blackening and sinking
unattractively so I avoid mirrors but, what can I do?
nights are far more flattering for the complexion so I
prefer them to days and, anyway, I'm prone to sunburn.
I've been drinking a lot of cocktails in big glasses and smoking
Gitanes, it seems appropriate.

the deaf woman said - the blind get
too much fucking publicity with their supersonic
hyperbolic hearing, just goes to show, people'd
rather hear shit than open their fucking eyes. does
my vision fatten and swell into the part of my brain starving
for sound? I guess, but who cares? go ahead, ask me what crimson looks like.
I don't fucking know.








5.07.2005


mmmany'criticsAppearNot;to(realize''this) --









5.06.2005



drums
& dolls -
gender role fulcrums!






doldrums
grow too
full of her





Series Magritte # 83

Deep Waters      [ image ]
for Alfred Hitchcock & Tippi Hedren & Alex Gildzen

Unlike most
of Magritte's birds
is neither egg nor
simulacrum. With
blood. Wondering
which way to turn.
Le sang froid will
take the woman's
coat from off her
back. Or. Le sang
chaud will whisper
in her ear &
wake her from her
statuary. Or even le
sang très chaud.
Will influence a
Hitchcock movie.

co-posted to Series Magritte








5.05.2005


pas t'nnd









5.04.2005


at the table he said grace

it was just a sandwich
just a salad
served in a booth
we were undivided
from our thoughts
our present held our past
irresponsible for what
we were that day he looked
as young as change left on
the ground we spoke about
grandfather's birthday
same day as America's
steam engine we would ride
around the yard before
potato salad friend chicken cole slaw
root beer fiddle music
tin tones of the clanky
upright piano sour the way
that chuch chimes always
sound I thought his eyes
looked maybe twenty-five
with innocence that comes with
believing loving anything
unchecked on purpose over years





Biopsychosocial Model

As the impact noted, it will restate itself
at a discounted rate, from armed
robbery, let's say, to the results
of all healthy competition.
The dread of net worth, as with any
old drip, waits for the nastiness
before mentioning the factors
that limit the hereditary levels of trust.





certain'ty









5.03.2005


Tiny slippers

on your lame martyr girl.

ps: pass it on








5.02.2005


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chinese whispers

Earth
son Lyam
a dry gal!

That's
what I
heard passed on.








5.01.2005


ah'the







earth's only a madrigal
(pass it on)