oct 22-25 pieces

The sun lies in ambush like a murderous skink
Hair, cartoon dress camouflage in the curtains
A mini-skirted day. Empty plane with four trees.
Escape velocity. Heating & cooling.
Mrs. Gorilla in love with his banana.
Which, dissevered, is a potent cure for
    TOO MUCH MACHISMO, and yellow catarrh.

Who will we run into today?
Accounts dwindling until of no account
    & birthing. An easy-bake oven. (love)
Circling constellations. All signs say "we're here!"
and that's all. Shower first, then show & tell.
The queer birds flee before our wheels.

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Ventriloquism soliloquy all morning & then
there goes Rick on his bike & phone loudly
& Adam at the art show
G with little g, K for koffee,
Gd at the crystal, nice power, to conjure them from
otherwise nameless, senseless, faceless

Johnny Shed who works for ninjas
not seen for years & many others on this list

aging backwards     millennial pageant
admire cleanliness, large rooms, communal
abilities    a greyhound with mange
slips on leaves is buried, run-over

paint me like a pine tree     what the chain saw
dead wood of despair!    no good for housebuilding.
simply is crippled.    bell & out they run
"bouncing balls" a new form is shaved

& all down College smell of hot chocolate.

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Fog & foam. Dog's death. "I'm here" —
all signs & no accident. The man who shot Liberty
then painted her, breasts roarding
forward l'aurore, victoire, rearward
a sin unhampered by orisons. Lardy
there's wine on your tit
a kind of racial facial goops against
your nature. A rock the size of a battle
cruiser which is really a glass brick.
Modest commensalities of oilcan ovens
& immensities of California burn. The mountain
redoubt until it danced like a lamb
I guess we did too, like goats, but then you
resigned, became a man with a sign
an adept at numerology.

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"The brain it draineth through the nez"
Iskander's provender coal box rose
in a robe by a window lit lavender
looked out "they come in columns of three"
this way since the road was narrowed
to rim bounce & blows fearlessly

grating lattice and sandwich covers
to best a buckish foe
I'll send you home rather
driven a drunk pigeon
(that's you) & we greedy thumbscrew

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Daily plainly she hard peppers and it's not enough.
Even a platoon of crooners tuning up heroism, a quaint clock
"that's how it goes" not enough. Not extruded excuses lockjaw
bruises clamped shut my rickshaw muddle of jumper cable
is not enough. My mollusk lust not either. Beside her
or inside her, though kinder, ellides the prize that drives
her to salt (and to me). Desultory in gravity. Sobbing scrubbing
desiring poor pepper. For sanity we choose this and it's hard.

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On the wind, mutations scrum
& flagellate dashboard ashes sopped to
enervated sausage stuffing a kill-born
Jew — winkling porcine burly bear
man-of-hair and zoo cough
closets them as revolution spins
ignorantly abroad and away.
Atomic swallow doglike calls
and dinner bartered to lure a nurse
gartered and bow legged. Johnny
shed who works for ninjas asks
for calf, a heifer to abolish
and shatter his commandments
nothing but obeys some master.

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In a wheelchair, strange leaf-like
or out a manhole or tiled devotional
doorways or loaded forebears
the woman who bathes & puts on a sweater
which hangs flexuously & underarm
a dictionary heavier than a baby
armbustier and bubbles
weather embargo & ran you away
who would write without rain? & ideas
grasped choke up the hoofpick
loofah poofter loafs dead in a ditch
happy endings the mechanism unclear
smell of the world & the consequences all ritual

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book cellar wine to piss is insurance crime
make duration crime

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what is beauty? (colour texture
structure stricture great
library of smells) hangliding fertility
rummage in the wax      crimson melting
cement dispersion     shrub that stutters
bathing pickup shackup stayup sayyes

invariably empty
a drunk fool drinks his fill
ergo a-go-go

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what is money? (the mall the all swollen noses
goldbricks bullshit fungeus)
reproaching futility
flows out of the robes "trade
secrets" and oil fries Jacuzzi Manna

heraldry old men
in the mall teaser
the plot smoking in bed
to pee an insurance fraud
duration crime

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Food Court Man

slouch & bristles
rifles the napkin pile
tertiary methods omega list
fries a tar boiler
throat singer choke drone
will he gargle

too charmin' for school marmin'
I'm telling you it's the only ethical thing to do
a virus called hubris
enough unravelling

travelling