redacts

everybody r e d a c t s
   them; selves; anyway--
that is not as it / how it / as it would be
awe     shucks     her own corn
   a big     ger
   basket hangs
[in the west song
of her encyclopedia.]

Intertopz ridiculous "stake-back" offer

Preamble: 
"With all due respect to the Niners and the Cardinals, this is the sort of game we want to see on Monday night! The Jets and the Patriots get it on at Gillette Stadium in what is arguably the biggest game of the season so far and Intertops.com celebrates this battle of the 9-2 teams with a stake-back offer for all its customers."


Stake-back (!!!):
"We will refund all losing wagers on our “Exact Number of Points scored in the 1st Quarter” bet offer if a field goal attempt is unsuccessful in the first quarter!"

That's right, folks. If you guess the wrong amount of points scored AND a field goal is missed, you get your money back! Who wouldn't hop on a this train to tinsel-town? One would think a stake-back offer would at least TRY to lure in bettors, but then again they are all about this bad. 

A post entitled "Norway" but should be called "China"

One time I went to Norway. I could tell you this. This is something that's possible. Like moroseness is an emotion, or people have lunch.

One time I went to Norway. I could honestly tell you this, but I'd be lying. Deep in my heart I am a terrible coward, and nobody will ever really love me. I've been to Norway. I have went there, okay? I didn't.

I am an unrecognizable sea-species dying in a Chinatown fish store. Why do Chinese people (They exist, O.K.?) like slimy flotsam from the insipid sea? Living living livid, I tell you. Dirt would be too clean a smell. FISHY is too poor a way to describe a putrid potpie of fish innards grossing.

[NOW I SHIFT GEARS]
Oil from the fires of yesteryear paintings of the everglade. Beneath the mention is

the lynchpin to freedom--free doom. Doom for one and all;
after glade and the misery up cometh
down the grotto to the blade
with her mystery, & so forth.

Yes, I believe in Red and Blue (&white)
stripes the halls the decks of glory.
Why can't I write like I want to? Like
A canvas is white at first I hate when people say they're blank.
They're only blank if white canvas surface a surface is not white white
not a surface not white not a surface.

Can you see what I'm saying? Words
written into a machine appearing
on a screen--Meaning Can you see
what I'm saying? Pent valves of
spry cigarettes these Chinese smoke
every goddam alleyway, every shopcorner
every moment is a cigarette waiting to be drawled
dolled about longing children fawning talking
don't know what they are saying.

They cannot spell like me.