Sam Kaufman | uhwuhna at gmail dot com | also at cogito zero sum

Monday, January 20, 2014

Regnant Pas - 10/2012 - 11/2013














Regnant Pas







Sam Kaufman






ECTOMIES

an ectomy of time


brave
to turn away
from every day
blind
without flight's organ
we can ramify
but not divide
a point
to under a line
& often forgotten  





Paris Dispatch, 1870

1. War
some stayed up
at handsome hall
pissing into masks

skillfully disseminated
berlin in 8 days
arriving into glory

the concierge
the chargé d'affairs
two young staffers
Illinois district
a courageous occupation
the capital of white cravat
palace of cloud

how easily large masses of people
            may be deceived
a courier in front of the bourse
spoke fire through a confederate
under the table

a fish-idol flopped

left rose rightly
play-acting boys
a delirium of noise
irresistable compound
quoth national interest.

2.  Republic
concluding the uselessness of concealing the facts
he covered himself by putting on his hat
all military authority became utterly powerless
indiscriminately writing letters, looking over documents
talking and laughing, all in the best of humour
the night was beautiful beyond description
all without the shedding of one drop of blood

3. Siege
up to that point the police was honest
life and property, everywhere safe
the remotest street under watchful beat
but then the obscenest caricatures
            cried even by young girls

organs official absurd & puerile
the Pope a prisoner with the Emperor
the Diplomatic Corpse a fatherly ghost
processions at the butchers
the provinces tediously dumb

street-names changed hourly
the morbid taste of sand bagging the museums
smell of secret documents in newsprint
pawning of workmen's tools

hussars and slogans encircling the periphery
the police functioned normally
those who left permitted no baggage of news 





A day among the Witches

Each conjures his or her own
Pack-like but mutually incomprehensible
It's not as if the humour flies by me
It leaks
Melancholy from old bones
La-bas, la festival bourgeois
Here, fearful theor-eyesing
No third man stands in the middle
Which is the hell of nature
The inarticulate conjecture
The gesture without expectation
of devil or servant to jump to it.        



Essential Potential

Eager to wrap it up
a sad future squirming out of the past
the footprints of disease
congruencies abdominal
a soft towel for sympathy or presumed intent

The end or side-step of comfort
like a light, presumes a mind
or something above indifference – a pyramid
with an eye under glass
A counter, or a fitful keystroker

Nice & sexy recovery, decency
& love not cynical but animal
he resembles him or his father
the mother the material, form
a reduction to warmth, quality of sleep, or teething





The Poetry of Louis Riel

Some under law
some under nature
righteousness served
a hungry supper
in battles bleed
& die in anger
the price of race & priestly generosity

on some other afternoon
Anglo-Saxon improprieties
rate interest tickers
of knights in white chamomile
but god was born on the red river
last week anyway




Take a pill and make no monsters

Woke under the first snow of winter, &
I politely asked what the hell was the problem
Some days we suffer needlessly
other needles have a point
snug in your cold shoulders
you raise and drop no covers
& sleep with knees & elbows
hard & pointing my way




Clap

A world of discipline
ready to spank
a dead duck

as paradigm
it sounds clearer
on the piano

a culture of floaters
meaningless
to the clipping class

muted method
can't voice
the noise




A plausible

A proof our illusion is likeable
you take it wherever you make it


When the clown looks you in the eye

pleasure
a long thing
in short time




Interlude

They replanned the capital to cripple the secret
                                                            fraternity
brothers not in wealth or poverty
but mercenary terror
& the lighter charms of liberation perpetual
from sweat & from stockings.
Home became an exile
of boulevards too broad to barricade or cross.
A triumph, a loss
seven bridges and one well-trodden island
I though my struggles would be over, once
but never in Jerusalem-
free development under history, not contrivance
a colossus of pedantic innocence
an association
of angels unplugging the myth of
windows inextinguishable –
shopkeepers coming home to showrooms
self-illuminating.




Humanism

1. Newtown, Connecticut

A lesson in the proper use of weapons
to be learned by heart
until you're practically
or politically
dead

2. Chengping, Henan Province

A man in China failed by the system
of change, bad psychiatry and child rations
got 20 with a dinner knife
Kids are easy - what
have they got to run for
or from, the future and its loss
exceeding their small grasping
revolution




Two methods

The first way is rabies
it's hot but sensible - a paid adviser
at the ribboning ceremony
squat & reliable
with a nasal freeway shake –
loser static handcuffed
to the ground & to the gate
Turn it over, twice
& press delay
a nice bouquet & slick hunger
is the second way.




Countdown

The light of
a ceiling
like the moon
pitfully
writes the page

your tide trims
the sheet. Grey
or stained, bleached
unbleachable
furtively

till morning
sneaks out from
under it
no blaze in
night, no ray's

daytime slim
glimmer can
adhere, here
where number
wills, fails to.




Class Actions

The spice of charity
warmed before
adding the dry bones

This is what a brick
breaks

Overriding & under-writing
the odds,

should we arrive intact
or brazen         cylinders firing

all fistulas go
the flat of a palm smacks

harder, but
in the state of nature
the rats don't go begging
.

The dreariness of property
Emptying the lockers of the amnesiac
notes for survival coded in the buttoning
Gloss & tarnish – infrared on the blouse
stick down, down, down ... souring
the file called medical
what it gets up to when I'm not working
you've got to trust somebody
the billeting, the bile
taking care of its self
and every other asshole
well, read something, tack to the historical
you are all responsible, as
enzymes digesting fat once offed
that cat and summed to
a solution - flush -
.

Sometimes I wanted, I thought
an orderly love, to understand
the rot -  you know, meaning
mine, a bubble, and everyone's tsunami
Those sharp shoes & the girls four toes
mental arithmetic like making salami
packaged by the time they're five
and happier in slavery
mutilation better than cinders
what a woman never says to a gentleman
even epicene as wealth
like education demands compensation
.

Incuriosity of the chessboard type
still, who is that grim girl?
Measuring her eyes in a coffee cup & a beam balance

What paradigm of stasis could you
photograph, if she's dead
or switched to the other side –

Surveillance says –
No correlation. Physics of incestuous
fascination begs imagination
out of the manual syllables

Zooming constantly into the footnote
Clouds burned on the slide
.

The bulldozers
moved like drugged roaches
Light fell on the rubble
from the pylons that stood, still standing still

We pursued a juvenile
Contraception in war zones
My partner was careful
& carried a big
.

Who clocks the man in the moon?
bronze discs etched with wire
properly grinding in the alignments
ego can't wait, but this matters
not – for you – it's tiring
stuff. incidental to our
conversations, incremental
to our rape, a heavy point.
Spirit in a phlebotomic apogee
scratches a guilty sky
yes, squared intervals – nearly
outrun it – the sun, bald & dropsical
selling dopamine in Thule
a continent of stumps
fingerless on the left nearby
.

It's like – you're a double agent
face on a banner flayed in the wind
piss rain, though you
point to tangential angles
all approximation
ends, like headaches at Appomattox
surrounded, surrendered
but in the ultimate correspondent, real. Then goes on
expanding – idle but without regret
drowned in feeling like kittens
on the net. Outmoded diction
of the last new cage
splits
two ways
How many orchids & skulls
(still standing still)




Poem for a foe arriving on an island

Some begin again
The water stiff
Whether or between the trimmings
Faceted belongings and responsibilities
Meaning or excuse
Fermented or conducted, embarrassing
To deny the obvious falling from the sky
The golden, the sweet, the ashen.
.
See you soon
Like mayhem expecting
Encounters through floorboards
His friend in the dark
Put his foot on it
Now even faster

Microscope focus
A woman in another place
Where time cooks in the dry season
A raisin
Rehydration

No,
he didn't care
about women.
His wife made children. Her labor
made providence, and god proper
made her die.
The plantations improved
and funded his next adventure -
slit the throat of a life of ease
With his trusty
And a son who took his advice

Hardly Svengali
The stakes were smoking
bright on all bands
A long way aloft

But mostly it was mutiny
Cells and colonies
Strung and stropping
Until a certain sensation
More subtle than orgasm
But less than itch
stopped thought
Right around the rim
Of rectitude ... and talked.
.
The intended sender
of benevolence
may be absent this
does not mean benevolence
is violence, but reception
snowy and wolfish, a possibility.
To the base of the skull
a benevolence may apply
anonymously
on the sly the intended sender
wears his badge
beneath his face
doubts nothing.
.
Clad worse than a day laborer
At home, back in the day
A dream palace of employment opportune
& Convenient, if marginal, to the ninety-nine hundredths of account
A rat in a boomtown
with a heart of gold
Cut, dried, and weighed by the ruler
each ounce to each party.
.
I worked hard to make
My skin cap and lampshade
The image of the overseer
Flayed in the wind
Directing immeasurable labor
Like the sands undistinguished
Except by the boss

In the end the occupation
Mostly fizzled by midyear
The machinery though immobile would not stop
Instead we targeted the mother
The materials and the laws
A lack of proper documentation
A nugget in a shoebox
Sell it all off
And get a new job
.
Did we know of the atrocities
Empathy for the devil or a fate to await
Hoarded the overplus harmlessly
A future rising a certainty 
of purpose 
the details vary
.
Safe conduct was offered
But the emissary got lost.
At any given time
Most things are indifferent.
Life, liberty, property.
A tank full of incendiaries
A diarist in pillory
Subdivisions in heraldry
A pillow on display.





DUES

Movies make you cry, & should
but Nazis mock aloe
alone, they beg for the succulence
of the big break
"who will notice me now
as I swing
all across the neck-tie verse"
acknowledging the wiring, the rubbing
shooting, looking down
a fishnet face
& sometimes out

*

Flaming in spirals –
it's the chemistry in reels
events big after insignificant
phenoms – the boys they
rounded up, suddenly bright-stars
aww enlightenment's a toss
control your breathing
the thing they can't take
after the inalienable firmament
a bellows, power over knowing
blazing through the desert
of the discipline, lost –

---




This time the enchantment stays
responding to the view
hectic thrill to be
the word, the wind he smoked
disposed to be supposed
I met a physical rose
along the shores of Lake St. Clair
with windy hair
& eyes of the casino
a town never had religion much
except at the barbers –
– & the butchers' – brown paper
& trucks backed up all week
at the bar – how long? – sit on it

*

His being of civilization –
 the slime-mold life for me
organs take time.
Even a leech on a rock would do better
Focus on the clouds and the
harm they've done.
Striped, fancy ricochets fill the streets
one you must avoid
but have no choice.

---



The choices, & the voices of change
that wither & grow, that wind
around the bush, like a fuse
to trip on before lightning
wrecks the imagination –
The centering built by deferral
all the bricks in a Chinese parable,
in binary configurations, fixed in a finite time.
Whose understanding generates who?
This largesse – indulgence –
The action potential of the emergent yawp
Sliding through us in the darkness
sometimes noticed, recorded or not.

*

What I could not know then
I imagined, to no end
but so slowly, it felt like
decomposing
who is a question for bureaucrats
& detectives
we synthesize responsibility
through biology & stranger coincidence

---




A nonce announcement
for the moment, quells
what you wanted, spilling
from a tin cup.
Congratulations,
Grackles & blackbirds
slip on their evening reds.
It will be known
spreading like butter
on toast – like wind
through the rain
a swig or a swaggerer
may thrive - & birds flown

*

The ceiling-fan & its shadow
as in migration
but some frame always
spins too fast
where do we go, are
we going, where
time takes us, bringing
everything on

---



Rent's cheap where life is
and in the spring, parades
of the ordinary, fancy footwork
& wear, & cloven, & spayed.
The tedious be in the patisserie
a sting under thin cotton
& mud & the grass
we strode in on. and on the harmonics
elevating, multiply in eyes
apex of aphids!
A leaf to a line – if, love –
goes all the way.

*

not against the government, the police
the last to arrive & the last to leave
with a lumberjack indifference
to the hardest of comers of all
the appalling collectors
of human debris
we can turn to honey
if they try

---



Way up where
the dolls seem like people
& the air streams from titanium taps

how many hours & pills
in this volley, arcing cuspidor
past rainbow

in the barracks, sneezes & knees
an articulation lacking grease

swing low, cold smokey
to wander & return
crosstied, home

*

I heard the elk took the elevator
up into the skirts of Rome

A drunken sailor, a captain's daughter,
selling a "C" & seeking a soul

A voucher, like any other vow

Sun, tin, El Dorado in the Grecian isles
Better than welling, d-

---



Why do we always talk about class
in class?
Guilty as tied
One way to think, is about it
The leaded rope &
the latter ladder

His angels sideways swim
Him likes architecture
& a nice snack
One cultivates taste
with
Demolition

Agent of Child
tonguer of knees
leasher of lecherables
permanently, leave

*

A knot on high
& trim
That's the way to sing
the dog-notes

---



Your ideas rain –
& locusts take
their places.

I am building an apparatus
to obtain
the fabrication
of a generalization.

Magic is a blind
cracked to gas
& heartbeat

its generators
usually thrown away

*
change, powered by
the divine popeye

& visualized by section
& multiplier, heaven-sent

There once was a madman with an erection
He was giving, & his people
flowed.

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---------------
----



Why choose one
said ten pages of Spinoza

& sad bells strain to ring
long gong 
                   king ding

It's all wrong
is all I learned to write.

*

A skeptical denial
in April snow
of the knuckles
& knees
appending to nothing
pertaining to a dropped cap
& thank you sweetie
as I put it back
into her stumps.

*

Summer is not within you
waiting to extrude
into the tangible, surround
the sores with camouflage of lakes
& childhood's hollows.
A fake recipe makes the same
mistake, again –
pressing uniforms across the nation.

*

Felled & followed
a guy I once knew
silent at the terminal
beside me, at the end
getting his wishes
in a tuxedo
& this they call
experience

*

I could feel the presence
         of a loner, somewhere out there,
                                                         in the crowd

It may have been the air.
It touched my sympathies
like a bright, loud, bell.





DETERMINATIONS 

Determinations

To live the way of "they" - &
  not flip the pisspots
could be servile, or immanent
      monotheistitude

say clean, so every one
   can be a happy one
 at least once weekly

Stay far away, gassing up
    in a paper bag
Lights out with the greater light
      greater is good &
Being is being ­– but watch the fence
   & your reds, & your blues

One day they may ask about you.

For example, send them a moonrock in the mail
      & they'll say it came from
   outside here
        somewhere we never go.

 ----------


Sons & daughters
save yourselves – it's work, to imagine
the skylight opening, & no burning
a wind & the stance
of calm
feet unblistered & shoes of spring
bounding through optimism
& highly localized norms
each block, our block
our words and songs
to everyone, familiar,
acceptable.
The whole day like a bruised vein
giving what must be given.


---------------
needs in the park
like cigarettes
tennis balls
to climb a tall tree
& a can of beer.
a cold spring for a squirrel
but a nice day for a girl
's warm hands
they flee

tell the teenagers
whatever you smoke
someone else wins


*


has the spring ever shaken
quite like that?
They're picked on cause they're young
lack confidence, smaller.
swallow the dirt they throw
til out it pops, november
A turning fence & a spitting man

To hate tradition
without murdering the old
That's the challenge of spring.

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Rode alone
through the fence of probability
game of waiting for the pegboard
switches plummeting
some answer   some questions
it is all propping the window up
in annoyance at great parenting
tight genes & a fat ass
they should have told me what I got
what I was getting & would have to give

------------

Going home – that gong
like roots, a put-down
even the landscape escapes
vacuumed up, dust in a pocket.
The city needs bankruptcies.
We need some time together
Some enjoyment. A stranger arrives on a boat
A woman climbs a mountain.
It's entertaining & costs a little less each time.
Errors of expectations.
You should have, said the Doctor, thought.

-------------

In the middle

Some saw it & loved it
what you wanted   in the mirror
bob like a breezy balloon
the shadow around the ankles
as you stretched your long pants
canted on the grass
eyes eclipsed like somebody
really someone else
inside you a third party
gave a little kick
*
it was jointed & tucked under
to keep out wind & rain
vulcanized, galvanized, disguised
but elemental
the desired dress
& shining through it
the inward east
the outward west
& the rest to explode
like a jam packet
*
the longings of the intended
run up to the hips
& sometimes to the streetcar
or on two wheels, showing off
a world in their compass
& pivoting through quicksand's
pragmatic brew. one bird
to peck the hole, another to plug it
The world is full and
everything fits.



------------

Love,
I worry about the infections of the eyes
which see only what they want to

You are now filled with possibility
as you always were

The posse rounds up another
dragged heel-first behind a horse

Or two with wings. Where
will they pull, and can

he sum their vector?
In your room women feed birds

or become them – no reins
or constraints; just sun, seed, grass

These are only images. Apparitions.


--------------

The wife walks into and out of the room.
Judgment has been sealed
a fullness without tranquilizer
stretching the glue, enveloping
wherever the roamer roams
or the roomer rooms.
It is clear as glass & sodden as grass
a true bond & a lip-sticker.
It goes anywhere you want it
& wants you wherever you go
wanting what you want
& itself, going where you go.


----------

That's it, hey – done.
& so much to do!
cleaning & teaching, planning & play
a right to line up for
on a night like this
the sign for more
is the eyes that can't close
on love's harrow.

Let's get paid
If we slave, we'll choose our master.
the tickets are gone & the drinks, puddling.
Let's get trained to milk
Let's make
some meaning.

*
Put the one word in, & shake it
as a peacock by the legs
fanning
Hang it from the ceiling, a potted plant.
A human scale in the photo-etching
Is a parasol
Handed by mom to pa; a shade
From religion & crude coupling.
Clearly, it is better than either
Useful, practical, a reason for all seasons
Pleasing always, even in memory.

Even when the organs don't fit
 each other or their eyes

Lines merge everywhere & all the time
Lines curve, return. Words love.
*
Clearly there's more to it
Too many poets have been dumped
Compare the love of fools, of kings, of saints,
 of burghers & celebrities

Arias omnipresent & bugs zee zee


----------


Making don't work. Son,
digest this stew. He bought it,
sat & sold it for a million
yellow broom & sorcery couldn't mop better.
Still seen from a plane, it looked small.
It all does – more –
each day you grow
running out of room.


-----------

Dull & precious is the day
True day

When an old book makes the leap
from prank to sense

False sense – the horses eat
all the flavours

& in winter, you pay attention
in summer, runners on the beach

link stem and stem. Mounds
sound windy like a wet rim

False prank – for you, here, years later,
grown, thumbed, unexpected arrival.


------------

Condemned by gender
to be always the jerk on a horse

The womb-robber, framing the letter
whether up-front or upside-down

The waitress is familiar, from somewhere
elsewhere before this series of encounters.

But we can't remember, and leave
awkwardly, weirdly, estranged.

Of course, the horse may wander
and the stars grant bursaries of tenderness.

For you, this is not my wish.
But the womb will empty, and you will be arisen.

--

home late to turn on the light to
dozens of baby spiders all over the toilet seat

the moon had risen & maybe wars
& in foreign squares people swarmed

believing in a future
David: under the riot gear, she had a beautiful voice

but could she walk on water
or drink for free? possibly

nature consumer & nature consumed
you are not compelled to see beauty in a bigger cup.


------------

Today was the plums
  & everything black & white

it's hot in Egypt
  & inside 37 degrees

she knows your rhythms
& you her

regulations, revolutions
  & other excitement

A time to kick & turn
Open a new account

wire the holy land
Eat some holy dirt

Do not attempt to enter the Temple
it is holy to one

as yet unnamed.
We'll get there around 1'oclock

If you live there, plummet
& we'll sync up

Like seeing through a veil
a pair of aviators

Oh, myself. On that day
That sunny, sunny day

Just last week it was.


--------------

In the hot heat of the done day
your fields are full of scamps & insects

A tree rises above sand, steel over slums
the airplane virus aerosols away
the grass became thin and long
it was like walking over a giant pig's back

mushrooms mowed & parkbench melted
the laws lawns are empty but for the encampments

it's a monday
& two tendrils touch through a fence

the public servants serve the lawns & the
private servants slave

today is very uncomfortable
date sprayed (toxicity) next application

in the ancestral test-kitchen
alone & overgrown

I collected bottle-caps
though my father didn't drink beer

----------


I'll have the nothing special tonite
& that'll be why they're the way they're headed
Idiocy conventional & time-limited
But next week, I'll be sited on
The pan-out, flat out
Rolling between the wheels
Sour stones
Sometimes the vibration was an eruption
Next pit left – some phony's keep
Left brow, serving the wrong machine
No intentions of its own
To spin – a vortex unknown in women
And fabled at both ends
Too much for one night

And they fell upon us until we stopped falling


-----------

archers offer a place to go
the green house dilutions

his head was dented on one side
& sweated like fruit

being the need to know, teeth
summarizing the enormity

of pyramidal forces & their counterparts
each spheroid impinging on the switches

decisions in smoke, some called prominent
levers on the landscape

exes off the map

*
the heat closed its jaws
around us when we met

anything goes into hamburger
the grinding feeling

as we let ourselves go
head first into the switches

testing to optimize a sole-source
confuting the destination on the manifest

----------

Every day is not like the rest
it becomes it
says the axman
a star on trial
his strategy a tumulus
of whistles from broken pots

he's a card-carrier
& could feel it when it was coming
in the harness of a caress
fever after ever after dinner
too many plots to digest
simpler just to punch it up

into pieces easily disposed of
into shutters without dwellings


All the fallen leaves of July
fold like anxieties. The sun
has gone out. The dogs close their eyes.
The phase spins. Fall off the rope
& step on the line. Sing back the words
or someone else will.

------------


A complex

A game of belief
sways no samurai
even in the world
there's a reflection
All parents are, in
fact, insane.
It's tangible or
you're lost.


------------

Be tangible —
get the uncharted
drift?
The matter of sunspots
burns the eyes.
From this view
it's going to rain
but behind the wall
anything – sways –
a toilet in the park
touch stone
where plastic would do better
& flesh beyond imagining
prize winner
filler of space



-------------

Soured on the enterprise
after the interminable became the perpetual
but there were charms, there
where you could grasp and perform
in the conditions of lost decades
a lifetime post-utopia
& mail delivery of fumes.

A game we can play of pricing space
  & tasteful catering.
It's a cooperative because you smile
  or soap in the mouth
The precious hors of ours
Now that they're gone. The union
before hobbies & capital.

And all things to learn again
To earn by sharing

Bearing openly the risky business
  of two workers, self-directed.


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So many contribute to you
offering to explain
what is a middle spirit
or a factor – or a mirror
some distance from our ideas
& intimate with our sources
but protected – by position
or dematerialization – or
recombination – there is zero
responsibility & total love
– an ethical fantasy – derivation –
derision – a horse to hobble on –
a ride to preserve – a golden shore
& perhaps we'll die upon that train


-------------

Room for a new

It's shelves & tiny monuments
only the grandiose can view

sell it before its value runs prime
now, still a cloud of fair percentages

a time to buy. Regular sweeping
No end to time and space, but dying

in a warehouse, or living in one bubble
The permissive universe
shines on the windows it dirties

with manly style. To burst swell
dust or douche in fervour – leaving
All the passages that matter
underlined for you
to run through

 ----------------


Passages matter
in the vicious class war

You are free to ignore all prescriptions
but receipts you must not disclose

they are invisible messengers between you & your intentions
hugging so closely
the unborn bards of populism
become technicality

tease six guys in a room
wondering who's blood they're watching
from the front row

a tremendous transfer
or transfusion from the mother
who gives you form & freedom
but partial information


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Xavier / A new house in Basque country

Turning & sliding & babbling & hiccuping
the engine emotes

a paternalistic throttle on the sources of belief
better than a cult of death-or-taxes

but the pool is shallow & full of existential athletes
& foulings – you can park on the street
& enjoy the wait     watching Hun & Bolshevik
tie up mommy & daddy
every night in the attic kitchen
of your cut-rate garret & its dreams
of homesteading & mushrooming

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dragging the corporate dragon boat with your stumps


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Snowed-in (Lucretian war cry)

Increase the gain
& bitrate
caught in the act / fraud
of indetermined space
an agent identity
moves through a white hall
on the king's highway
as a spear tugs outward
the empire's face

know that
whatever the weather
someone is always listening


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Order fulfillment

& kicks for labour & kicks for love
a stiffening & toughening while I
read through the philosophers of experience
for conditions of philosophy & experience
making value an abyss & a morass
of order fulfillment & what you rate

in the absence of absolutes
a message must be sent, stronger than messengers
whether from inside or outside
by a power, burdening its barers
these are real weapons of an MD
& not past pandering

to the psychology of the destitute
wanting the desert to be pleasing
again, and not for the last time
unless this is the very last of times.


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Somebody's instrument is you
& don't you want to be somebody?

it and we are unavoidable
I seem
to complete sentences

but the trend is trending
fictive articulate or dumb

if somebody uses what you
learn to use to use you

then is the mirror arrogant to the gaze
but warm & elephantine to the touch.

*

These principles are self-satisfying
but require certain deduction
or probabilistic under par
hair tumbles before emergent weather
& theorems in their holes get smoked
await & con - template
probi-ballistic
a wire is quiet but antiquated
& ever avoiding (ergo) aliens
is a hard life. errata
non grata
    (extinct)
 better than ruin & waste.
*

To personify a medium
that's mother. Ideals!
Need new hips. Some virtuous
caricature subs in.
This charade, like chastity
passeth over the stage. Reflexes even serving
remote control.
One generation's weakness, once removed, as policy
identified by contingency & itchy fingers.

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Our slightly obnoxious instructor
must please or cow the majority
mostly poor distracted or lazy
canned jokes I use on friends
for her float the audience
as spontaneous as jello
who believe in the medicalization
of private institutions and public love
and total womb combat
is pay-per-minute in very small
units called stations intimate & bourgeois
meaning only commerce
violates the dyad – and medicine – through the chaos
branches off – slugs on dahlias –
to a fake calm place
treats for the first comer
she reaches for her baby


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Raisin of State

   reasons of complicated organisms
are rarely directly expressed
    footprints in powder or a six-second clip
 is light in the electric eye
     penetrating all media, physical
          or metaphors

  with some small claim to relevance
     in the king's touch
  thin visibility
       pumped from reserves
      into bored rooms

  where spontaneity's confounded by intelligence
reports of foreign influence
      & another bored room
   plots electrification
          to green the cattle-cars


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tentative and flawed
   is the way of stretch
I knew at twelve some errors
   and discipline the capped sun

saving the eyes for whenever
  flee the hours teeth
eroeics, heroic investments
     candidates for passion

or excellence, a priority
   tough to claim when you're out
to lunch – the like-minded
   stare back & chaw

as the navy bops in the barbershop
   & goes back to it
unsinkable you – temperamental
   free music

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HERE

 Earthquakes & milkshakes

& inconsolable you
refusing to choke
on the dust
moving through
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Coda 



Now every body makes mistakes
& mistakes those it makes

for virtue or its vicegerents
somewhere down the line

the tinfoil gleam of the adding machine
& the beam balancing the eye

snorting the moty minutes
while the imprecision of cell division

fills the room with its smell
diffusing its own times in

tit-tat squeak-squawk

parallel





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