apr 5-24

Hungry bird digs up Becca's bulb
hard work, nest-building
vines on the clothes line
fence line
next line
's "where've you been?"
"all your life?"
"last hour"     "flocking"
spring    st and ing
on the street, where you live
they drag race the alley
in their trucks and baggy pants
choke on a lollipop
a home built right on top of me
& I didn't even know it

time went fast without a balcony
frozent fast - no serious damage

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The pine falls into the house
needles, glass
popped retainers
The man in the basement rolls over
babbles under her crazy covers
them & the frantic mice in the attic
reasonable among people
Believable? rats tales
cable's out, network's down
streetlights brighter than ever
"what you said"
The pine falls into the house

*

Day & the pine is standing around
swaying to the slow guitar on the stereo
in the front room in the stiff house
smoking a chimney    tied down
some kind of shelter   from
air planes plangent, staring stars, too much sky

wind needs a draft
(I'd like a beer)
to sleep    the end of a long pipeline
some squeeze

*

sit down    take a pill    how are you
he knew he was the twin because he sat on
                     the wrong side of the fridge
didn't know me, believed in the blood
guided him down the water shed
3 rings of fire tea in a gold-rimmed cup
we saw the movie, went to bed
wordy allergies
biked around in the wind

the corn's in the bed
it's warm
the fox has no sox
poor hen
so many little dead things in the garden
under the beat, addled "if you're like me"
who isn't?    sleepy cymbal
stand-in

*

The end of disappearance - it's a girl
sister of June bug, little Bean
no razzmatazz, a little Blue
daughter of sister, well-proportioned

white blobs

pigeons in the attic of my understanding
which is built, like a house

feet scuffing in the underworld
he has been walking on death
the back garden
wiggles, the super bug on multi-angle DVD
     onward, toward, & on
a constructed facade of wisdom

*

scaffold of worms
turbidity in the urine
shine the light over the neighbours roof
Russian humour
a nice day to stand in the bald street
bald, potato head smile
up every way you look at it
Three cheers for the orienteers
guides over the cracked ground
when self-control is not enough
& love is deemed extravagant
down the roots, up the shoots
spring & smog pattern the apartment

*

he's an ascetic cream-puff
always been simple
what are the higher desires?
big dumb car. look at it & feel proud
the human indexical
rollodex rover
& the skinny form that followed us home
fed on marzipan & grass
sugar burns & the cold breath of death
is shit-coloured caramel

the richness of a natural process
outside to weather

his thing
was small, elastic
improvised, collaborative
and appealing

*

rain in the retina
night sandpaper weather

*

corner
coroner
crooner
coronation

his shadow is planted
his shadow's a plant

heard spurs in the bedroom
clothes piled on the tasselled chair
tousled hair
window facing the brick wall
combustible neighbours

as soon slam the door as say hello
never help you with your groceries

put a rat up their drain pipe
windy

*

In the beginning, there was the beer shit

the fast lane through the tall trees
quickening
"rock-n-roll music is the best advertising"
roadkill is rubber    "sticks on to you"
petrolia!    river under the house
burning-star church    ass-track

rode to town in a purple taxi
amidst the insanity
I chose my restaurant, not my family
   (Hi Mom!)    Did me fine
& good enough anyway
to drive    lemon joy in the headlights
rubber roadkill
signal derricks you've known
   & the RV conception
amenity vittles    rusty stuttering gate
   of the temple    babies fast
in their blankets    like still life with fish
   pomegranate heads    & clustrous grapes

trill antenna
        Benvenidos!
to the tomato capitol of Canada

constant thumb-tapping

down a graceless side-road saw despair
polka-dot salve till buried
& then bells, & the big house, & bells


she turns on the light and asks
  me where to go
little baptist road
good pretenders
performance tender
promise     doll fingers

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"when I'm with you I feel myself




                     evaporating"


bubble bursting in the belly
barking dog at work in the mind
found frozen in the morning

*

Bill writes "rushmore"
I say rush home
where I live

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In the Stygian gloom, two vestigial stooges
"dig man - it's the big barren"
reflective hell in a deep wrecked well
defective bell
what the beast wants, the beast gets
the red dot floated in the wind
bloated in & out the window
she was across the moat & quite remote
a leech at the fountain of fun
we could hand out ham sandwiches at Auschwitz, but
& shall I compare thee to 1000 monkeys?
the simple simian sips, slips back

  to work.

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that girl looks like Ramona Ramone

penetration rates in our white-walled community

the sun sate

named for the day of its discovery

the moon mawn'd

"laziness, to a large degree, forms my modus operandi"

cather for it or not at all

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the yellow strip down the hallway wall
   contracts to a square

*

The committee was sad
They couldn't help everyone
They went for a swim

The mussels clacked their shells
    a million teeth gnashing

They ate them right up

I opened my eyes & saw you
   seeing me, with surprise