freestyle poem #791

put your feet 

into cleats 

take a name and number 

put it on a list 

burn it

buy boy's books 

look at the sky 

go crazy with 

whatever who 

knows / cares / 

is willing to, 

did't know 

didn't want to 

i've done everything 

i've discounted all

this band

is bland white fury 

kill Craig's-List- 

Internet-selves not 

tapped into a rhythm 

disruptive 

like "kill all men"

said the feminist 

on Twitter but 

fuck that 

The Catholic Re-Organization Pyre of 1846

"How couldst a fire help us reorganize?" Little William
asked the County Deacon, at the Feast of St. Spadersburg.

"Our Father of Infinite Opportunity & Justice For All
hath made it so. Now go along and sow some oats!"
said Deacon John Jacob Justice, virtuous friar.

Preparation for the conflagration continued. Zachary
put on his trousers and lit his stove; mother was not
yet up and he wanted to impress her with his heft
and forbearance. He lit some pipe tobacco while he
was at it. He thought of the blaze to be, and smiled.

Across the marsh, Marcia was just waking up, and
threw a few hooves into the pot. The glue wasn't going
to make itself, after all. Glue was part of it, too. Glue.

But how many lashings doth a big fire entail! Dove,
and her tag-a-long Zoe had been doing commercials
in the Capitol for weeks, but now come back to Fred-
ricksburg for the big event. They had been lashing
together lengths of yew for days, and Corvus had
helped them pile the fescues in the plaza center.

Elephants & birthdays (07 July 2014)

1.
(swimmer bitten. The winner with swimmers on)

the swimmer was bitten at the entrance to the path
up the mountain. he whom detailed the corn in the
rose paths has led himself nowhere
it feels good to get all uppity
about begin downtrodden.

the bedraggled boy was bitten
by a god on sunday. he was
third in runs allowed on thursday,
but on friday he said he would
by god allow this all to take place
it was good, God's doing.

It was God's doing--it was good.

2.
the humble origins of the cave cricket

Owls Top Bankers, 1-0

The Sante Fe Banking Commission--

God, what an institution! I mean--

the pageantry! The depth of actuarial 

prowess! Ardent men with white pressed

shirts who return day after day--

except Fridays, often, and the four 

weeks vacation they take--and many Mondays

during football season--

…but I'm getting ahead of myself. 

Where was I? 

The SFBC! Oh Dear Jesus, Thank You

for God's Bankers, these men--their 

love for burgers, the love of clean-

liness and slavery, to one's 

passions--banking, that is--

Where am I? 

God help me. I'm weeping. I'm 

really weeping. 

2nd Field

Not the first field, okay? 

But the next one, 

behind the third, 

where the snakes are 

eating mushrooms, clouds

grow in the clown's belly 

and vroom the Macaws shake 

lose folds of laughter like 

crackling thunder underneath 

the moon startling! wow! 

sinister briefly bits of 

brain-spun cold wound home this

bit of tomorrow's feeling,

a man kneeling and homeless by the side

of the robe 

the cold heart where the worm turns 

tomorrow into tomorrow and tomorrow 

is today. 

Absurdist transcription derivation, since you asked (the gushing world)

1.
there are no signs of the gushing world.
it appears rag-beat.

this crashing of paper, completely negative --
this is a person minus belief, soon.

anyway i'd like to solve the knee-bow problem
crack faith, yah? crack some books?

so my idea is to explain:
it not feasible. you've already
knelt. you've already written.

i imagine the origami way
to solve this.
fold your wings together;
make yourself a valley.

if you could see inside,
it's peak & where?
lauded & high, right here,
waiting for a pattern to appear.

This computer has no idea.

2.
cold wine, grape; it's ok.
i was patient at some time.

at first the holes were small.
but hills become mountains.
the solution is perfect, right?
the model says good things,
& bad things too.

...is a crack portable?

Transcription 1 (95% real)

there are no signs of the gushing world. it appears rag-beat
this crashing of paper completely negative--cannot do you
grind home. this is a person minus belief soon.

anyway i'd like to solve the knee-bow problem
crack faith, yah? so my idea is explain it not feasible
so i imagine the origami way to solve this.
Yoshimura sector, for each side this is a cue and valley.

if you could see inside, it's valley and valley,
so our problem is in-between plus and minus zero
(tarrow-meter)

in jurticle. sorry. for joining to some kind of pattern can be appeared.
the is not interest. interest material. you can see the positive.
to explain this, computer has no idea.

The origami solution cannot be the science proof.
...

cold wine, grape, 's ok. patient at some time.
 Initially small deformations, this is more commonly known,
this is valley, mountain. Like 'ddicted. To pick cowl.
Some kind bigger pattern appear. This solution is perfect. But this is a fold line.
…pour it in, okay. if you're adding...

The model say good thing and bad thing too.

...Is a crack portable?

[Literal transcription of what a talk sounded like, from a Japanese scientist who I couldn't understand]

Mush

Seven readily available folk singers at your service
Three left-handed, two dyslexic/ambidextrous. Two with no arms.
Army of one, carnival sun --> prodigal nun.

Refired beams of mushed potatoes
Globetrotters waiting for the Rupture at the Potomac
"Major Announcement to come:
Decaffeinated = hard to spell"
Coffee with the coffee smell

"Yell and scream and shout" is redundant
a sentence unfit for public consumption
simultaneous humming with sumptuous gumption

This makes Harold hungry
famished for parsnips
of the garden variety.

Aphids!

Magic

Men and women are magic,
not meant for ordinary lives.

not on this day

There are people involved, in the, incident. There are mouths and women to feed. Babies. There are mannequins to stand up. There are

There are

whole countries. Dilapidation. Depr
ivation.

Departments. Whole bodies of

code & words

there are countries

there are women
with brown, flat bellies
there are children

there, ah, mud,
there's a mudslide

there is a 17-year-old named J------ wrestling in Ohio mud
still a v-----

there is a 17-year-old named D--- running around a track
soon to learn about the planes hitting the World Trade Center

there is a 17-year-old named S------- doing cartwheels
on a thin, elevated beam. She will be your girlfriend.
You will be her first. She will teach you how to love
again.

There are

winds, currents in the ocean, there are mud-beams,

there is no light in places.
there is cod, there are cold dark places
and desperate men who fish,
there is love, there is sun
but not on this day.

some words on friday

sprouts of a new fresh day
the uncollected people looking toward each other
are we a bundle?
a microcosm of violence,
a virus in a penguin's blood

damn stanchion of a nation's poor,
belittling your demand
for your own satisfaction.

i believe in longevity.
i believe in freedom. I
believe in everything you've
already taught me. come to the
boathouse, nude, and i'll
give you a robe.

2
seen through new eyeballs
this classroom is a curse
a feast for eyeballs

seen through prison bars
her body is a banquet
albeit coming with a fee
like an ATM from a rival bank

3
i'm so fucking sick of sitting here

Such is life

Drinking chai tea
doing tai chi
try to remember the last time I was creative

words used to flow from my body
like music to my ears
lately it's like pulling teeth
as ears stream down my face

yes, ears. Lest I dream on, as the years
pile up
faithless and drowned, not unhappy but worried
not rushed but certainly hurried
unmarried/harried
and so on
and so forth

every floor

every floor

is as ordinary as

every other floor

a million floors

stretching out, from

here to eternity,

floors covered in

linoleum, sandalwood,

expensive linens,

birch bark, pine shavings,

floors covered in mud

floors made of earth

floors smelling of catnip

flooring supplies salesmen

leaning on their wives

after a long day at work

dancing on top of bars

tables become floors

men dancing alone,

men dying alone,

human beings crying

to touch each other, to

reach out like arms grabbing

falling money

I have a farm!

I have a horse!

I fed it poison!

there was a time

before the war

when I still believed

and now instead

I spend my nights

setting fires in alleyways

& jerking off

and now I'm done

with the hotheads,

the unbelievers

and the gentlemen brides

cool calculated birds

landing on wires

flitting between oaks,

between evergreens,

men hiding in broom closets

boys with bright eyes whistling

bright corridors leading

to darkened rooms,

women with dishpails &

cards carrying loose slots

(The Loosest in Connecticut)

...

now arm your souls & arm

your minds with nonconformity

because a new wave of manipulation

is pouring down on us, pouring

over everyone you've ever met

and it must be resisted. 

as the floor holds the feet 

holds the body & the mind 

resting regally in that head,

the beautiful head of yours. 

magic (poetry by a spiritual teen)

like the atheists think
maybe there's indeed no
magic in this world

but if there isn't
may God strike me down
because i believe

in something beyond --
beyond science, beyond
the immediacy of reason

i believe in the spirits
of trees, in the holiness
of nature, that love

for example isn't just
chemical, that bonds
don't expire in death,

that memory, moreover,
can maybe last forever
that our ancestors

are still with us,
perhaps begging for us
to be better.

short declaration

I'm the VP of Congress Avenue
and I have a shot
of winning the whole neighborhood
merely by unzipping my fly
and showing the whole world
or at least a small part of it
my above-average dong.

bejeweled fountain, applause

the first instance of many
junks plying the seas was
in japan many years ago

the first mistake was
walking to work

the man in the Ichthyosaurus
shirts is all smiles

the pure, bought briquets
were made to burn

the boy in baby blue
is priceless

the devoid penumbra
of her luncheon umbrella
smolders

your flame, on a towel
in the park

leaves no mark
but in your heart

left a note for her
at breakfast in the lobby

she didn't receive it.
denote your interest

by investing in her
dad's company.

yessir, Bryce, i think
it was, i've come

far enough to know
that i'm not going back,

and i've drunk too
many times

from the bejeweled
lip of that fountain.

Here is the monstrous myth

Here is the monstrous myth. This is the Buckley Family.
The offspring: Susan & John. A Hallow's Eve joke plan:
neighborhood children to chop a dummy's head off.

The Buckley children thought it would be hilarious to
actually  kill. Maybe they did, and maybe they didn't.
Either way somebody's been tricked. Here is the

monster: here is the myth. There is the shadow
of cold in your memory
of the real cold in your teeth. Clinching it like

a pen ready to write with. Ink, solid
soldered parts of your already-bought-car.
Night's out at the lake with her dervish

delivered as handy. Cool, cool, clear
water. She gave you what she wanted;
She gave you her hand. You shivered.

A title better than the body -- revisit

Isle of Pines (Youth)

In our youth we were pines,
all of us islands connected
underwater by archipelagos
& si, no está muerto,
está ojust comenzado. Esta
bueno.

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Little is known of the pre-Columbian history of the island, though a cave complex near the Punta del Este beach preserves 235 ancient drawings made by the native population.

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One of the biggest factors is luck.

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In our youth we were pines
on islands. In our youth we were
not yet how we wanted to be, we
didn't know how. I still don't
but I am no longer a youth.

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In our youth we were
inland, made to be another way,
in our youth we were pirates,
the long dugout canoes
of American crocodiles.

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In our youth we were pines,
we were pining,
blooming invisibly,
seeds that require wildfire.

The page

The page is the space where the bone is erased 

and replaced with black ink that bleeds not 

but charts a course of hard life, lived in the Earth 

by tubers & roots. I believe I believe I believe 

in the moon rocks beneath the feet -- in the 

skeletons in her house, in the monkey's 

resting place, unpretentiously hidden 

in the corner next to the palms. 

The marauders of thought are afoot 

and let's not mention that they are slowly 

falling forward, placing one foot in front of 

the other, a run to the place in the park where

the bamboo shoots grow, and everything 

is in its place, sacred and vegetable. 

Laden down like a latent frown turning 

over and into a clown's 

wedding clothes. I opened her bloom

I took note of her petals, 

I planted her rose garden. 

the reef at the edge of the world

the reef at the edge of the world
the inborn impulse to strangle one's
sexual partners. the reef at the
edge of the whorl. the finger waggling,

the hand of God. hand on a Bible
like a rifle positioned downrange.
downwind, unhinged, boxes of wheat
crackers. the joyous sound she makes

in the morning. focus on that--the
girl you haven't met yet, her beautiful
hair and her beautiful body wrapped
around you like flax becoming lace

becoming silk, maybe. everything evolves.
even sentences into paragraphs and
relationships into prisons. business
is who you know, business is ethical

in the American moonlight empirical.
"i am not curious" and i never will
be but i'm electronic like curtains
ne'er shall be. i'm online and incurable

like a virus on the website about Neptune.
you just wanted to learn about the
solar system. the whole world & its vales,
the whole world for sale, wholesale.

Caring

science vs. fiction
*shrugs*
precious little matters, litterbugs
truth vs. consequence
and being selective is tough

I wish I took fewer electives in college
and did more things I didn't enjoy
intellectual laziness is a curse
registered for classes as a nurse

Not really.
I CARRY A PURSE.

Not really. Lips sealed or worse, zipped
locked, bagged up and thrown out

grown out of my jeans
patchy memories of outfits past

loud last actions
clouded judgments
resounding failures
no buts, just move forward
from the foreword

which lasted longer than I expected.
like a bad best man's speech.
Toast with jam
too much on my plate
not too late to share
too much of a burden to think about
but not too great to bear.

Sometimes I care.

Return to Trigonometry

Doberman
it's over, man
hits and misses
hugs and kisses
permission to admit evidence of incisions - dismissed
I would be remiss if I didn't mention - I'm listless
yes, something is indeed amiss.

I miss something I never had
I want to be a dad
but am not even close to ready
diapers cost a lot, you know,
and kids wear them til they're like 10 years old.

Everything is an accident
nothing is an accident
coincidence is just love and hate at the same time
deja vu - an interesting concept
flash all the way back to a past life
so fucking rad.

I saw it already
it's familiar to me
so why is it so difficult
why does it feel new?

what do I want and what do I need?
why can't I google that?
what is "the internet?"
Argh.

14 August 2013 bits

not the Mets but the "Quick Mets"
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"Activism" is a word that's been on the tip of my tongue recently
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the stop-less pause of rain has passed
and now the living sun is out
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Writing about a Fresno arborist and I remember the time that I was at Carle Park, I think, probably with Mere, and I was playing on a pretty extensive, multi-level playhouse, which was really cool. I think we played beach volleyball after that. Definitely we went swinging. I had on a hat. One of those colorful careless hats of my youth. Maybe not though.
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hypnotic color-correction

15 August 2013

a DAY THAT WILL
live in infamy -----------
Ronny's not my friend.
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that's how i like 'em, Quick & Sad
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New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware
& Virginia.
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twig & the half-moon
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baby black bear 40 lbs
the wolf is full-grown:

a bullet, 24 pork steak$ wrapped in paper,
& a soggy salad in shark stomach
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a STORY IDEA

a video as a poem

What you just said is
one of the most insanely idiotic things
I have ever heard.

At no point in your rambling, incoherent response
were you even close to anything
that could be considered a rational thought.

Everyone in this room is now dumber
for having listened to it.

I award you no points
and may God have mercy on your soul.

some stuff

land-use
pavement
mission
confederation
recognition
needed,
money,
wanted.

i want it
i need it
I've held
it in my
hands and
behold,
life again,
arisen like
palm-fronds.

Does it matter
what we're doing
to our minds?

The recognition
of the world
is not what matters
but the hope that
you are doing
what's important,
and what's important
is being done.

Defensive Position

Defensive position. Defensive posture.
Moons, squared over the sun, recalcitrant.
Oh hey, man, here's a landlord, covering
his tubers in rootworms, I mean cement.
Cold coverings of words the remind me
I meant it when I said HATCHET.

Crooning no-goods. Gooding and the boy
gods. I know that this -- our together-
ness, touches -- meant something. This
gift is figment, this motion is deliverance.


Measuring 5,840 square miles

A quick red poem

Females as divers
sponges delivered
Nail count -- watermelons
Coked spiraled down-towns,
corpulence withered to talons
basking fish or women, womyn
misers baking sodafins or
maybe i'm about to jet
four-square of these, fists,
holding knives who
are staring, satirizing
your flesh-to-be. Cut.

one small part of the inexpressible problem

old thoughts. new rhythms. cold, cold, cold hands.

the same sitting-around. the same "newsroom." the 

same meek children who think they're adults. i pity 

you sad fucking people. (i really do.) (thou are god.)

the same faggots and Vespa drivers. the same need 

to explain the last sentence's subject: I DON'T HATE

GAYS, AND IF I DID, FUCK YOU.  cybernetic 

hate like worms eat your composing shit, & 

that's favorable. sad fucking people. fuck you.

the sad newsroom. the lack of expressing things. 

in your own head. i'm not writing verse when i say 

that hazardous waste is put in your water, & you 

drink it while thinking it's "not that bad," and celebrating

poor kids. at least they dont' have cavities. 

i can't take it anymore. ADHD, depression. i no longer

suffer, but why? i have seen the light. 

i'm officially fucked, i'm officially saved. i'm like 

an Army Sergeant seeing the light, writing in banal

semiotics. "My girl, that bitch fine." Scratch the bitch 

word, but we're all being honest. I can't hide it, 

I can't hide it, I can't hide it. 

in the millpond / leave

swim
does the cat
in the water

pool
does the water
in the millpond

will
is your millpond
to change

hunting & marijuana

sometimes Matt smokes marijuana
& goes hunting. sometimes he doesn't.

Muffy, of God

Here's Muffy & she's no shepherd
but a woman (of God)
full of vim & vituperative
words to be bandied about.
yessir i'm rugged as antlers
are to deers' heads. i want
you as much as a bullfight
wants reasons to end. not
wanting, never enough. too
many papers to read. not
enough spectacles for burying
the words under, underneath.
sedimentation.

modern life

the sadness of modern life

is almost sometimes too much

to justify, to live with; as an otherwise

nude ballerina removes her hat

and squats in a warm bath--

the door closes. 

yes, I'm afraid I've arrived w/o

booking my room ahead of time.

I'm just here, is this alright?

can we see each other still?

crossing her legs, she smiles. 

my love, but why are you here? 

I've arrived like twilight on the eaves

of your mother's house, post-midnight,

before the June bugs came out.

I've arrived like a warning from God

to be merciful & to follow instincts. 

This is how you got here:

This is the way home.  

Wistful Thinking

I don't dance
at least not like you do
at least it's not raining
I like the rain though

but only sometimes

bugs n drugs
and locks of love
palindromes
infallible drones
flown over
everything blows over

sobering twists -
"hey mystery mister,
this is a sorority
and i'm the sober sister"

twisted cause I kissed her

enlisted in the army
got a blister
and took aleve
of absence

wistful thinking
winking + winking = blinking

carry on

tigers in the bottom of the barrel
sunglasses-wearing felines &
fallacious arguments about science
kids w/ rocks 'n pasta, postboxes 'n
sandwiches w/ swans. i met (truly,
Ulysses) a mercury-sweating
caldron in the lobby with Margaret,
boy, she was acting funny.

it's like the lights-out w/o the lights
on, she said that's what depression
is. "Depression, call it depression, it
goes so, what are you gonna do about
it, that's what I'd like to know."

take off your sweatshirt when you're
talking to me, honey, i've got
my beeeeeeeads on

& again with proctors and the Lancelot-
lovers, the corn-muffin bakers & the
ice-queens whom dance in the corners

yes i was also a man once, when the
circumstances allowed it

but i tried, Dan, i tried i tried i tired,
like i'm looking in a glass here, the
mirror opening like the moon becoming
a body of water in which to swim
a cold hard woman that's looking
to knife you.

i believe in foster children's toilets
& magma machines & pushups.

please carry on.

Dan's morning routine

Dan's home was practically a museum, built out of white marble slabs and featuring low-slung windows that looked like those in a post office. Indeed the whole monument had a feeling of a civic gathering spot, as opposed to a house. 

Dan woke up in the morning in his king-sized bed, draped in purple satin and redolent of potpourri (his maid, Linda, who he had a crush on but had been afraid to ask out, loved the stuff). Plenty of swords and medieval weapons adorned the walls. There were also several televisions, most of which he had never turned on or set up. 

After rising at 10 a.m. – an hour that never deviated – he brushed his teeth and strolled out of his cherrywood doubledoors, emblazoned with silvery chicanery (objects, symbols, political gain, chevrons). He strode across the strip of grass along LaBoutain Boulevard known as Dan's Park and then entered the Refinery, his sem-private "lunch club," where a team of doctors and surgeons waited to examined him. 

His bladder, kidneys and tonsils thoroughly prodded and interrogated, Dan sidled up to the breakfast bar, where Lorraine (his kidney doctor's wife, a real gem) ceremonially asked, "What can I get you, Mr. Fontaine?"

"Eggs Florentine, ma'am," he replied, as always. 

His eggs came bedecked in spears of asparagus and slathered in Mackerel Sauce, which contained equal portions of Clove Oil and Spearmint. Dan really was a maniac. 

After the eggs came a hunk of whale blubber, as well as a tidy bowl of pure ASPARTAME chunks. He loved these, and loudly made suck of them. 

Then, the salad course, which he never ate. 

Finally, desert. Rat-tails crusted in real sugar, opossum eyes and arrangements of gumdrops made to recreate scenes of mastodons fornicating. 

After breakfast, Dan was often frisky, and he went into the basement of the refinery, where Jill and Jo were waiting to tickle his scrotum with ostrich feathers, and stroke his cock until he ejaculated into a pot made of baked mud. The pot was never emptied, a point about which Jill had complained, only to be stricken by Jo, who was a violent and dangerous woman, and whose arm-grip strength could choke a pregnant buffalo. 

Sated, Dan then sometimes went out back for a game of tug of war with a pack of measles-infested children. Dan was oddly immune to this disease, despite never having received a vaccine. Predictably, the Fontaine's loathed vaccines, almost as much as they loathed diseases. They didn't mind rats, however, prone as they were to loving the darkest and foulest corners of our human-created world. 

Jim DeBelsh, Dan's foreman at the cemetery, would then usually give Dan a briefing about the daily body-rearrangement ceremony, and the grave-digging initiative. At 12:30, Dan would plunge his head into a bowl of cold water, and yawning, retired to his bed at the civic center for a nap, and, occasionally, quaaludes. 

thirst

Sometimes the border of the cliff isn't enough to keep people from going over it. Here is an exhibit: a man with sandals playing basketball and tweeting about "the horse-race." By which I believe he means the race of actually equines in the next county, but by which he could also be referencing humanity. It's hard to tell what a surgeon is thinking.

But that was yesterday, and this is today. I've dropped my stuff off in the lobby and to be honest I can't tell whether we are discussing the elegant flames painted in the bathroom tile, or the purses containing amphetamines that somebody stashes beneath the bleacher seats at Times Square. The moment you realize your alive you're already dead. That's a joke of course.

Evenings with Gladys were among the best I've ever experienced, truly Julie. An orchestrated, balmy evening in the bowl of a stadium with winter wheat stocked up in our coats, crowing about unicorns and fancy de-palmed believers. Did you know that they can erase your signature after all? They can erase your fingerprints, your Social Security Number, and your make-believe identity. Sometimes I sweat laying on my bed at night thinking about the turmeric lobby and all it's done to wrest power from the powers that be.

And just like that, another German on spelling vacation, licking his wounds from the last come-uppance. I swear, Julie, I could've beat that n-----, and if he'd looked back at me one more time…

Just now walking down 17th street I was saying "Preta" to myself (reading aloud, upon seeing sign for the over-priced deli of the same name where I often eat breakfast because it's the most convenient option) and looking at my reflection in a shopwindow. I noticed a girl passing by staring intently, smiling widely, like she was very interested, or amused, or both. Or she thought she knew me — but she didn't say anything. I looked back at her and she was glancing back at me. What are you supposed to do in those moments? I swear on all the vital organs of the continent I should have ran after her and come to understand her, made plans to see the symphony, grown old with her by a lake, but I just kept walking like a foolish ordinary human being thinking there's no other option but to keep on.

Then there's the part where you're all out of plans and you're thinking about Wisconsin, or talking to a girl down by the jetty about signatures or dopamine. Both are pretty individual to the person that makes them, and how do you know my brain's chemicals are like yours? I don't think it's obvious we know anything about what makes a person decide to get out of bed in the morning, or enroll in an expensive preparatory school to become a clown doctor. 

The Whole Earth (pt 2)

The Whole Earth

is wholly property, 

you see, for him & him, 

but not for me. Don't you 

see, don't you see? 

Power doesn't answer, 

nor ask questions easy. 

Don't you see? Don't you see? 

The whole earth, the whole 

infirmary. A cold collected 

purpose for this purpose, 

incomplete scenery. Writing 

about the proverbial sand-storms 

or the sand castles, like a chaste 

woman (for the first time) in 

a fraternity. 

Please, if you'll bless me, 

don't make me again recount this 

goddam rosary, the "first time" thing, 

virginity. 

I've suffered enough for never 

having made a woman suffer 

through my indigence, 

my superiority. 

Over-ripe fruit, that! what a waste,

what an egg-shell too many. Here's 

Dom Maize, crowing about his 

virtue when he ain't got any. 

(Slippery boulders somewhere 

related two-and-two, becoming 

four like her concern was for 

free.) You really like me, you really

get me. You really don't understand 

how important it is to notice the 

scenery. (Sure kids, just keep writing 

on and on, like there's a recursive voice 

here, something made and collected 

and broken again into pieces that 

jade up the whole works, that 

make a man more brave than he probably was 

already, that make a man really want to 

roast something, whether it's his best 

friend, 

or a whole new tribe of actual people. 

Am I talking about nuts? Yes, let's fetch 

and eat them as soon as, believably,

one could, though not greedily.)

many reasons

there are many reasons

why i'd like to move on 

the sea, for example, 

continues her midnight reveries 

dark and immaculate in her waves 

the fish sleep as they swim along, 

daybreak the sound of bubbles rising 

and anchors descending, and history 

ending. 

i've had dark carcasses on the mind for 

weeks and maybe (, bless me, ) i could 

have been colder than an April shower

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icy reigns withholding her tumultuous, 

cavernous reason. yes i've held breasts 

in twilit hours, grinning, and yes i've progress(ed)

perhaps as far as the spider is spinning 

her web, and the web's beginning. i don't 

know how to slope it out of the park--i'll 

have to hit it. i don't know how to make this

aroma any darker--i'll have to quit it. i don't

know how to make a lager any quieter, 

so come back in the afternoon when it's lighter. 

a flame to the candle to burn 

and a mantle with candles to burn 

a mantle with a man chanting sunscreen 

clouds in front his eyes, Indigo Bunting 

shimmering waves

shimmering waves 

all around me       :::  

a pegasus wiping his 

tears, confounds me--

this madrigal girl, w/ 

a heart like a calculator 

beaming his bird brightly colored 

up -- 

toward heaven, or to 

her nemesis :: wives in

the kitchen and Connecticut

from Beverly to Hilary are heavenly. 

backing up now, away from

the straw, away from her manic 

abbreviations of wood. my body

makes water like papyrus 

made scrolls -- except the plant 

was not ashamed of what he 

shed off. Grooms and Latter-Days

and boys without spittoons, shining

Mexicans' shoes with ribald glee. 

If you want to know the truth just 

ask me and I'll tell you, I'm in charge

here, In charge of everything, In chase

of this moment likewise, like this is 

how a person begets betterness. 

I don't like cloves or garlic but butter

is just right, now. Like borrowing or 

robbery, I tell you what I think --- 

nice scenery. Expecting some kind 

of better judgment to seize me, but 

I'm disjointed and breezy. Gaps & 

windows open, a slow lonely purpose. 

I've kind of lost my steam even though

I can still sort of keep it out. Of the trees

again, the false presence or the false 

dichotomy. Broke her back on the back 

of the fraternity. I wanted to make it 

easy. For somebody. To remember me, 

this parcel or this empty bassinet. I don't

believe in locomotion, I believe in parsimoniously 

telling the truth--and the spell is over.