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A Last Day in Oakland

YL XUE

Achtung called it and that would be the last

word referring to algae in Albany Bulb inclementing,

exponential tenaments — also clams, barnacles, soft bodies

that dents soma response to soma. Miles away a man known as

my boss eats Louisiana Clams. Pounds of clams

scattering light. Magnet filings, roving static,

infinitesimal masses on a compact surface,

clinging to the hard surfaces of the sea.

 

That is: the mollusks they slut it up.

The mollusks they are so promiscuous.

 

Then: silhouette of a boy flashing a back flip.

He’s never done it before. Thus, his body

has recently developed

new synthesis of prior experience.

She knows this and is

a broken line in my midwinter day.

Stop. She said.

That’s enough, while I was trying to put a cock

in her. A dildo, to be PC. I am crestfallen, this

boy living bare to life, *Homo Sacer*, quoteth a theory bro

 

The theory bro is me and the theory bro sayeth,

“I swallow buckets of sea while you swallow buckets of cum.”

“There is a kite surfer bobbing, a human trout.”

“The melted face of the sea are effluvia, gelatinous, purple, littered on the beach.”

Slut, I curse, finding thin lines in the washed up skin.

 

A body is found in the sea.

The lines on the skin ballooning like the curves of

sheep, green hillocks, women in a regime

of body positivity, previously. Not a man. Not Homo Sacer,

or almost a man,

 

defines, Agamben, is a man a subject-----

a man favoring what-----life

a man condemned-----

unwilling, desperate, man hung on a line,

a dredged body from the mirror-grey sea.

 

Finding out, the lines on the body confess,

remember: my body that I found,

I was sad here, disappointed there, delighted here and there.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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