Retro Spex

Retro Spex

1.

All day he smiled

unconcerned about civility

action service or ceremony

who was this inflationary disciple

interest swarmed to

on the river nihil –

a booby?

sex and swimming, picnic

and the bar

open for good

sucking the far & few

through clean filters

& they never came back because

they were always up

for air

*

Debuting a hurtful harmony

timbre falls

a weight of hearing

for an ailer

ghosting it again

in two tablets

remembered daily

the rightful subject

gone broody     her eyes

horizon

& for you

rue

*

Their lands expand

in ovoids of avoidance

& concentres of concern

“take me home and

                            eat me”

procurement socially

missed the bus

until we all belong

*

I haven’t got a lot of time

but after the crash

the credits scrolled on

slowly improvising our situation

starting from thirteen

& walk you home from school

*

Cut out the fake experience   

& glue

but the voice I heard was a

different bird

in the hollow stone between

me o & o you

he licks

the chop between the sticks

balancing the valence

temerity against austerity

glows in the falling snows

call for pizza

stand dead walk stare

*

Impinging or attention

is the dilemma

to suffer or waive hello

to robotic trolls

discrimination and definition

the objects rarely object to incision

ever green and ever gray

the emerald ash and its borer

borrowed in the poem

burrowed. buried. weave car apace

cloak for the journey to looky – o

great capital of crooks – o crows

the bright hub of a taxi grubbing it

past empty lots of snow

the one tossed off / I am on the bus

2.

Gallows roll

on the order of a theme

inadequacy of thinking

for a sensuous being

however transfixed on the pantograph

zip him up

lots of empties in all sizes

where you’re binned

& always someone to take it

eat rat – eat man – eat dog

deficiency

swings between beat and dread

a visionary rebate

pennies on the can

twinkle & tink

*

they’re rude, so cheer

& salt your own

the moral dries slow

avoiding the topic of secretions

in a family way

burly and political

obligation to defect

to the possible transversal

billions in the sink

as if rotted by the dew

on the weekend I think

& withal habits rule

           in nature’s livery

                   & fortune’s star –

*

it’s fun like wreck

& speciation

embarking his necessary

& my need, keyed

to the colour of the hour

oxidizing our own

the obvious critical error

wicked away

where no miasma could radiate

person or infectious cell

in flames and yet no fear

zipper tread

into the dustpile

a blank of our own

family surrendered

pinching inches from the border

conduit rules and common measure

imperial legation bearing

the will behind the pall

of assent to reckon

the length of a reed

vibes together gain – fuse

to set everything off

tint under eye

holds you accountable

on camera

in a little obscure

and forgotten snare

*

give us a rush

to out the doors

parasitic on inefficiency

so gone with the driver

one grabbed his sleeve

the other the pants that had descended

below prime

his conversation latinate

for a drunk indian

the intercom apologized

& my bad he said

& off the train & off we went

do not be overly affable

on the rush hour home to

potboiler the range

the best things ignore

don’t encourage

intimacy a threat

formerly gun-shy

& now polite undead

*

redundancy of feeling

for a sensuous being

abducted, hooded, numbed

by aliens in afghanistan

the sinless man

on which the sun sets

hands in the frame

reduplicating the list

to be pricked

as life beats on

outside the range

of blast or transmission

or disclosure to the popular

who wants their man

stone / stunned / toned

interstitial bleating / voice

necessary as the public train