Crematorium
It has long been common knowledge that unseen bells rejoice. That the mouth was made much bigger than the band it forms. This is the one misunderstanding I hope to clarify: Do I describe myself? Yes, I describe myself. The presentation of an inhuman and static head on a body that is human, and thus […]
from Fugitives
a body is one of the plants in this world a plant is one of the many bodies of the world next question what are tulips something in the desert resists tulips plain and simple a wave by height alone i fingered the foam from a boar’s mouth and tasted foam at her feet in […]
from H & G, a novella
Alternate middle #43 G. and H. let the Witch’s house burn, run out of the house, grabbing a few hot gumdrops on the way out, and keep running until they get back to their Father’s house, which they immediately set on fire. One taste of vengeance may lead to another. The Monster’s tools may […]
Basement
Rarely has opportunity for public visibility limited Virgil’s sensibility, particularly in how he delivers his work to an audience in what appears to be his being in a state of seamlessness—if, or as long as he can succumb to his vision, one that finds itself most precise, underwater. Virgil’s vision remains as clear in the […]
Twelve
Take it off, take it off, said the baby with no shirt on straight up in his high blue sky chair pretty certain, off already was his sister’s shirt a little older, a lot quieter. Take it off, said their father to their mother in a different tone. It was August in the Northern Hemisphere, […]
Purple Berries
One day a child showed up in my house. He came up to my chin, not a baby at all. I wondered what I had done to cause this and thought about cavemen who took a mate and did that thing and voilá. How long did it take them to know? Our young ones usually […]
12
I get on the 12 bus and it takes my blinders a good 15 minutes of people watching before my breathing gears down to an unconcerned pace They are all here the misanthropic the bums the tired-dead working overtime to pinch a simple car out of life. The children of welfare guttersnipes standing in the […]
Swagger Master
for JB mastadon. Huckleberry Expletive. Sweetest taboo boo poop don’t stink I think tank crank that soldier money in the bank. Shorty, what do you drink? Hath the rain a father? Yea. I saith unto thee, fear him. Holy Ghostride the whippletree this’ll be bad for my image bad for my image bad bad bad […]
Marianne Moore’s Nesting Doll
••••••• Sunrise sleep inertia isolates the surroundings Perpetual movement for this concurrence This, a probable voice constrained by verse-line An assault to codify psychological selfhoods The gallery adds value, curio or aesthetic Fetishized quisquilia falls short of expectations Ambiguities only a reality of signs ••••• A dismantling lyric partnership Word, then right margin pressured stopple […]
You are the same
Craigslist MfW If you are married-a-licious and in to thinning hair: Hey, my name is Josh. Do the right thing. I’m just a guy with a taser. Do you share an interest in riding me? I also have a pretty large size. Frankly that is enhanced. We shall have pleasure in ways they won’t […]
