journey through staples 

I’ll meet you in the bottom left hand corner of the map before we move across the great expanse of the middle ground – past staples that hold the pages together 

through the middle ground of open space and forests 
– we’ll push on

 towards the top right hand corner through to the small print

across the page references and place names

names that roll off the tongue

names that stick and choke

like swallowing a mountain 
we will move across a geography of dry river beds 

common land and ex towns 
we’ll arrive before the new edition removed our path 

                   

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  1. multiplemichael

    Daniel Libeskind designed a museum
    known as “Between the Staples”
    being very uptight about everything
    he made a pillow out of history
    but found it too difficult to rest his head on
    when asked about the staircases that lead nowhere
    even to non-rooms
    he holds up a photo of himself at 12 years of age
    seems therapy and erasure have not been helpful

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  2. multiplemichael

    THE ALTERNATIVES WERE TO KILL—OR TO DIE
    NOT TO BECOME ROOTED AND LIVE WITHOUT GRACE
    TO BECOME SETTLED IN THE WASTELAND
    TO INHABIT THE DENS OF DEMONS AND DOGS
    HUMILIATED AND BARKING LIKE A BETRAYER
    (GOD IS A DESTINATION AND NOT A PROMISE)

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  3. multiplemichael

    all this crazy talk about perspiration lacking inspiration
    so easy to write the last word and not the first
    people outside begging to be reborn
    I see readers stuck between the staples
    (the really bad ones are hitching up to shed a skin)

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  4. multiplemichael

    cheap watercolors and a dose of fact becomes fiction
    the poet with an obstetrical stick
    trying to rip the living embryo from the poem
    the mother gives up her words
    the lucky ones sink back into the darkness

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  5. eatmorewords

    the building had existed in his head for years
    no blueprint was ever drawn
    all in the mind, the angles, corridors, the non rooms,
    toilets with glamorous views,
    a spurting fountain
    – head of concrete and glass

    the only workable therapy is amnesia

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  6. multiplemichael

    a stroll on the boulevard where artists had planted strange trees
    where flowers grew directly from the concrete
    small women with large eyes smiled
    young men with no underpants
    plumbing for a price
    supreme idleness

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  7. eatmorewords

    backwards writing
    working back from a full stop
    setting the parameters as wide as possible
    breathing space and wriggle room

    remove the staples and the pages flutter away
    baby birds

    people want to be reborn but refuse to live

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  8. multiplemichael

    “POP OUT THAT STAPLE AND EXERCISE YOUR VOICE”
    to sound in text as one sounds in speech
    to start living one must stop living
    pseudo-paramount passion
    knife-thrusting sex

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  9. multiplemichael

    terrible dreams about the death of everything sensitive
    when Republicans walk it sounds like they have an accordion
    located in their butt
    ventriloquising smells as well as sounds
    ———a life perplexed and tormented by anal dust

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  10. multiplemichael

    fragments of questions—what was he thinking ?
    Abraham Lincoln with his thoughts like logs
    Moses with his gay tailor on his knees
    ———–total surrender to the staple
    the path of least resistance
    flesh falls quickly from the bone
    POET SKELETON ALONE IN A ROOM
    outside the sound of history marching by
    naked savages around a roaring fire
    blue-black bulls outside a bedroom window
    that damn magic mirror with its beggar-vagabond
    feeding on men and women like a cannibal
    covered in animal skins and promoting himself a poet
    ****strong meat and healthy sperm

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  11. multiplemichael

    men with hammers here to build preconceptions and prejudices
    stacks of litigation beside the trash can
    four-letter words drifting from next door
    resistance down to 3 packs a day
    the smoke of paganism
    the courage to explode at work
    lesbians attracted to the smell of semen
    poetry by the truckload unread
    limited staple literature

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  12. multiplemichael

    if not done publicly it will be done privately
    the police camera to capture nuisance
    imbeciles come and go
    weak medication
    thermometer sticking up
    like a flag at the North Pole
    ****she wanted to sniff it

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  13. eatmorewords

    artists impressions of standard scenes
    the pool hall painted in mauve
    blue shadows convey a deep sense of longing
    wistful woman with saucer eyes
    – the weeds that grow through the concrete gaps life will always find a way

    underpants chaff the exit

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  14. eatmorewords

    dust in the gaps of particles and strands of her hair caught in the breeze
    – republicans hang to the right
    deep inside the barrel of a gun
    – the comedy sound of loud clown honks followed them everywhere

    the view for the outsider is confusing & dangerous

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  15. eatmorewords

    healthy sperm has done it job
    all walking around on two legs talking
    – skeletal attempts to find its skin – appearing from the cave
    sunshine eyes squinting
    – wall painting poetry and pictures of bison
    – ex animals extinct and cannibalised by basic needs

    gay tailors and flamboyant costumes – sequins like stars
    the sky on the floor

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  16. eatmorewords

    a thin line between private and public
    – snapchat cocks
    – Instagram vaginas
    – body images sent to whole address books – what’s in ya pants
    exposed on the superhighway delivered by email
    spammed with questions “how wides your girth?” – pills for this
    pills for that –

    sagging in the South Pole

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  17. multiplemichael

    a glass jar full of a crude distillation
    the bohemians called it “three swallows”
    subterranean thoughts
    grade school mechanism plus behaviorism
    she said “no go buddy—impenetrable undergrowth”

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  18. multiplemichael

    the thought of a poor girl
    who pursued marriage to a golden staple
    the resultant crime of passion
    his peculiar grip
    creative ideas with no genesis
    endless suspicions
    limitations
    and yet—forces were constantly trying
    to outstrip his attainments
    that determination to hold tight

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  19. multiplemichael

    rub-a-dub-dub underpants
    the poet can entertain almost any idea
    diving down past the palate and the stomach
    searching, probing, delving in the land of farts
    at the dispenser who stands taller—the realist or the romanticist ?

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  20. eatmorewords

    hammers and sickles
    symbols of the old east
    – strap on lesbian confusion
    found a staple in my meat
    found a staple in my meat
    found a staple in my meat
    – simmering at work by the tea machine
    angry emails
    emoji blindness

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  21. multiplemichael

    IN THE CAR SHE SMELLED LIKE DAY-OLD CHICKEN
    squatting one could see her catcher
    gnats and hair like pine needles
    squeezing down there she could make a comical O-shape
    sleek moist eel greasy with under the hood tomboy cheese
    real women make gunk and orange-red stains

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  22. multiplemichael

    a collection of staples in the mental health hospital folder
    staples having erotic dreams about the word, “JUICINESS”
    glossy surface intercourse
    vagina flavoring
    incredible constriction
    varicolored paper
    Ouija board strong staples

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  23. eatmorewords

    mow the undergrowth
    new life forms found
    go nocturnal
    go subterranean
    the secrets hidden inside beards

    a brain in a jar
    a door stop in a Scandinavian university
    six cigarettes smoked to the butt

    feeling the gravitational pull of the situation

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  24. multiplemichael

    when I mentioned that the remedy for suppressed talent
    might be a personal size lawn mower
    you could hear the floorboard creak
    puritans welcome growth
    plusses and minuses
    often mismanaged

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  25. multiplemichael

    how much life is shuttered and buckled in the words ?
    gay tailors and flamboyant Pearl Harbor sailor suits
    jism-crusted zippers in the morning light
    old queens tell stories at breakfast
    sleep doesn’t come quick enough
    the roommate is a religious fanatic
    on her back with relapses and setbacks
    old wrinkle in hand making wrinkled wisdom

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  26. multiplemichael

    a sign over the coffee maker:
    PLEASE DO NOT RUMINATE ON COMPANY TIME
    a real insult to the girl-studded office
    doll masks and doll clothes…yes
    apples on the chest—the smell of chartreuse
    not a bare spot on any crotch
    the cocoon of sexuality finalized

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  27. multiplemichael

    poetry stapled inside coffins
    poems about death and resurrection
    words that make plank paths
    crossings and re-crossings
    angry about pleasure squandered
    pink-walled memories—butter for lube
    “it feels like Friday Night” when you touch it
    owl-eyed— burdened under the force of a session
    teaching and learning love—repetition of schooling
    living among ghosts without jackets of flesh
    yes—living among ghosts

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  28. multiplemichael

    men who survived terrible women
    yes, there are men who survived
    the world of stinks–constant fatigue–idle dreams
    men who were forced to compost the vegetable scrapings
    ———————–++++++++++++++—————————
    men who stand at the urinals of life
    with their lollipop size heads
    and withered shaft skin
    thinking back to when they were sex hammers

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  29. multiplemichael

    thunderous farts that bounced from the back wall
    faces stitched in disbelief— the discomfort was oddly satisfying
    ———I know she has finicky nerves
    but I mailed Emily Dickinson a postcard today
    (a shut-in in a white slip with a man-size external)

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  30. multiplemichael

    Emily Dickinson once told me that the only workable therapy
    was to have her external sucked as if it were a horn
    to indulge in the vulgar heat of religious wrong
    a female penis with a fever
    cowardice is common
    I suffer not

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  31. multiplemichael

    decreasing circles succumb to a navel
    a husband on a leash
    lilac-scented
    —————-bawdy poetry about an upholstered crotch
    applause without misgiving
    the chances one takes
    has to take
    will take

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  32. multiplemichael

    something so dangerous as to write down what was on my mind
    working back through the day—sacrificing time and time again
    disquieting questions about the space ship
    lesser devils I called them
    they spoke German
    and seemed angry
    ****I offered my best upswing

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  33. multiplemichael

    unschooled eyes—overlapping circles of the outer world
    signifying my operations…a periphery of contact
    the womenfolk with their healthy eggs
    one kiss and the hunger ignited
    the tube thickens
    fluid secreted
    life oozed

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  34. multiplemichael

    at the pool hall they often spoke of
    “YANKING UP THE OYSTER”
    had nothing to do with the hardships of poetry
    singleness indulged
    continual practice
    ignoring the footsteps of history
    ignoring the ricochets of readers
    what price—unattached virile vigor ?

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  35. multiplemichael

    stream-of-consciousness
    (+) butt dust or inconsequential butt dust
    (+) yank up the oyster
    (+) banjo players never wear pajamas
    (+) masturbate and then recuperate
    (+) oral sex whispering
    (+) SHE had a squirrel cage inside her skull
    (+) a healthy pink inside the repetitive rut
    (+) a tiny pucker unfenced

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  36. eatmorewords

    her catcher
    like a leather mitt
    aged and smelling of sweat
    – a hoard of buzzing flies
    buzzing round the smell
    – the mound the pitcher stands on

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  37. eatmorewords

    staples replaced push pins on the chalkboard up and down the country
    – homeless people in one shoe heard secret messages telling them to congregate at the edge of dark town

    all eyes
    To the sky

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  38. eatmorewords

    suits with lapels a mile long
    like runaways for alien craft
    – wide legged suits to hide contraband
    – room mates stealing each other’s ideas while the food in the fridge rots –

    wisdom aged like a church steeple

    I need some air

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  39. eatmorewords

    she phoned up late night radio shows and spoke for hours – free wheelin words
    – other callers called in to request 1980s hair metal songs –
    – she continued to talk when the line went dead
    – pink walled entrance
    dark exits
    – she awore she saw ufos and ghosts and her dead grandma in the frozen section of the local supermarket
    – life was a gift that became a burden
    something to discard like a moth eaten jackets

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  40. eatmorewords

    I found a secret in box
    247,876 unread messages
    some offering financial security
    some offering unrequited love
    I deleted them all
    set fire to the computer and picked up a pen

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  41. eatmorewords

    we drifted apart
    slow icebergs in cold waters of seal fat and fish bones
    above sunken ships
    – never realised the distance till i turned around and saw small people on the horizon –

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  42. multiplemichael

    the awful responsibility of finding the secret
    a rather large unfenced thing—this secret
    like running madly in a crowded circle
    a life full of suspects
    only one baby bird

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  43. multiplemichael

    talking, kissing, laughing, and all the fun stuff
    came to a halt
    icebergs
    large hairy icebergs
    so much more above the surface
    work and isolation and sleep
    small frightened people on the distant shore
    like eggs waiting to be re-inserted into the chicken

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  44. multiplemichael

    WISDOM COMES IN ALL SHAPES
    A CHURCH STEEPLE
    ELIZABETH TAYLOR
    scanning titles at the library
    endless books on loneliness
    one direction things go bad
    the other direction things go really bad
    introverts standing in a cynical, hard-bitten line

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  45. multiplemichael

    the edge of Dark Town
    where men have skyrockets
    in their pants
    when children ask about babies
    all eyes to the sky
    going naked around the house
    the loose ends of sexuality
    sordid alleys and filth
    wallowing in the sludge
    paralyzed

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  46. multiplemichael

    HER CATCHER
    a warm bun from an oven of religious mysticism
    after the baby it was just dawdling
    desperate dawdling–sudden veerings
    it would just fall out with no pledge

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  47. eatmorewords

    when I walk past mobile phone masts I can hear conversations : talk of schemes
    dirty secrets
    life long dreams people talking a low hum of consonants of code words and nicknames –
    sordid laundry aired
    all eyes to the sky
    people transported in machines eating nuts in a metal box all the sludge is below
    miles below

    in a metal box above mountains eating nuts

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  48. eatmorewords

    the choice meaning no choice two ways bad one direction bad
    the other, bad no direction home the cynical servants
    the poisoned kippers the
    library books of Cleopatra loaned and not returned like
    the unwanted post from unknown sources

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  49. multiplemichael

    the library books of Cleopatra were on the topic of kissing
    when to kiss—when not to kiss
    the constant fear of infected lips—STDs of the mouth
    withered lips—the fear of lip shrivel
    ( dreams about lips coated with the frost of tuberculosis germs )

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  50. multiplemichael

    people at the airport were swallowing pills
    to place them in a numb core of nonfeeling
    pills that stop the questioning
    all the criticizing fades away
    36 hours before one can defecate
    vertical moving people seem to be in a hurry
    rich people in gingerbread colors
    burlap-textured clothing
    Russian—nothing before 1850
    gesticulating cigarettes and huge diamond rings
    I sat up front next to the boy genius

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  51. multiplemichael

    Daniel Libeskind—the man with the lightening-crackling mind
    ——doubts of past convictions———–
    ignore the defects and discrepancies
    at one time he was young
    I saw a certificate guaranteeing it so
    I thought of him as pedestrian butter
    a macaroon cake easy to swallow

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  52. multiplemichael

    poets were saying things like “stubborn horse”
    and “deadly venom”
    almost impossible to look them in the eye
    the coffee machine was sweating
    the petrol stove low on fuel
    the promise of cotton bottom tomorrow

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  53. eatmorewords

    yolks outside the shell of
    Rothko eggs – isolated from other people –
    emotions like icebergs 80% submerged and out of sight like a criminal on the run

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  54. multiplemichael

    fly away magnificent handsome brilliant baby bird Peter
    fly away magnificent handsome brilliant baby bird Paul
    find your ego-satisfaction in heaven
    heaven with its limited interruptions
    heaven with its limited goat droppings

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  55. multiplemichael

    I bought a copy of the Christian Science Monitor
    thinking there would be information on icebergs
    the whole issue was dedicated to your missing father
    there was a poem on the back page
    “THE HOWLING VOID OF YOUR LONG ABSENCE”

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  56. multiplemichael

    I saw Daniel Libeskind holding hands
    with thick-ankled tweed-coated
    women of the hawthorn hedges
    interested and sincerely seeking information
    doors that refuse to open
    windows that face brick walls
    steps that lead no where
    words floating in waterless soup
    ——————————————-
    *************************************
    where corpses embrace
    quarantined from poetry
    famous and yet a life not worth living
    deprived of sanitary thoughts
    sadism skin-tight
    multiple blurs
    prayers for a refuge from memories
    EXTERIORITY UPSTAGES INTERIORITY

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  57. eatmorewords

    the CSM propaganda machine
    no mention of dinosaurs
    the rigorous search for truth stops at the door of religion
    – icebergs aren’t melting just drifting away
    over the horizon
    – humans arrived in boats wearing black cloaks
    secret sects hidden away
    sharing fathers with those who have none –
    a father figure
    a strong backbone
    a centre point with hands bigger than shovels

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  58. eatmorewords

    heavy eggs
    healthy eggs
    – the yolk that binds
    JFK shot by his own man
    53 year old secret irony of history
    a story in a story
    world inside a world interior blurs where the exterior starts –
    one kiss and the blood courses

    it would be fair to say the word she used was throbbing

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  59. multiplemichael

    eggs in an exterior room outside the phallocentric museum
    eggs governed by science, church, and state
    eggs with a history of insecurity
    eggs go unexpressed—perhaps “unspoken”
    in Kentucky a mouth with an egg in it is a foul mouth
    the tongue that has licked an egg
    is a tool of the Devil
    an apparatus of heresy

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  60. multiplemichael

    readers either embraced
    or repulsed
    by the explicit statement
    “HANDS BIGGER THAN SHOVELS”
    pool hall articulation
    exploratory—suggestive
    the text like a sign turned in the wrong direction

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  61. multiplemichael

    the umbrella was very functional
    life resists containment
    words from the newspaper were falling
    thank God for the polarities of white and black
    brakes applied and applied again
    the force of inertia upset the daddy cart
    giddy circles in high gear lad (giddy circles)

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  62. multiplemichael

    pass unnoticed until they become involved
    martial problems
    library card problems
    basic defects in personality and character
    skid row derelicts
    heavy users
    the motel was home to the upper end
    the source of the heavy-user spectrum
    Europeans on the edge of Dark Town
    asking for a room with a rear entrance
    Canadian guests asking for a night bucket
    no one brave enough to leave the locked room
    spoils and booty in high demand
    awkward and uneven sorts
    a knife–a club– Biblical Sodomy

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  63. multiplemichael

    the guys on the street
    were selling beef raised on beer
    when they noticed that I was checking them out
    I asked if they had bootleg library cards
    (unbearable urges to get my hands on some free books)

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  64. multiplemichael

    forgo the knife and the fork
    it is modern times
    greet poets on the edge of Dark Town
    ———–sincere HELLOS
    simple things can become complicated
    how many tokens in your life ?
    platforms at the station ?
    upside-down maps ?

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  65. multiplemichael

    a safe zone for bodily functions
    psychologically strange
    yes I do—yes I do
    black and brown
    a small lake of strong tea
    ———–adoring audiences of idiosyncrasies
    with their layers of narrative to decipher
    evils and lesser of evils
    thinly disguised diarrhea
    thought-provoking diarrhea
    wacky danced steps
    each one a word for a future poem

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  66. eatmorewords

    the uncracked egg
    life inside
    a dusty church of creaking knees
    the French have no religion
    – teaching your grandmother to suck eggs is a strange phrase*
    – happy birthday devil man

    *she was an expert egg sucker in her day

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  67. multiplemichael

    stream-of-consciousness
    (+) the usual male diminution
    (+) surgery with large scissors
    (+) a helping hand with the moustache
    (+) make-believe guns from Dark Town
    (+) alphabetical erections—arithmetical erections

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  68. multiplemichael

    SHE said, “You’re a real runny, glutinous yellow puddle”
    my cousin said that he thought the job title was “cook”
    little did he know that it was at minimum 7 inches
    words can have such unpalatable meanings

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  69. multiplemichael

    gloved hands to grip the gun
    only in Hollywood
    a fried egg in the underpants
    and off to work
    cooked food next to the cave entrance
    an oozing incision in a paranoid-critical kind of way
    men on the elevator were quick to take notice

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  70. multiplemichael

    having just squirted from a throbbing tube
    no time for self-dislike
    all psychological associations are absent
    edible excuses for disordered thoughts
    ——-the when and the where of ingesting
    years of college and that being the crux of the biscuit
    ****someone taught you to kill your food with your teeth

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  71. multiplemichael

    SHE asked, “Am I just a twinge in your life ?”
    7000 demons silently whispered “nuisance”
    there was the girl with the rubbery gums
    she had that look
    like she lived too near a cemetery
    agonized nerves in the groin
    tweezers darling—half the night

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  72. multiplemichael

    STREAM-OF-CONSCIOUSNESS
    ——————————————–
    (+) a female taxidermist calls you every day
    (+) on the ride home you notice several male and female halves meet
    (+) you try not to stare at things sandwiched between the teeth of strangers
    (+) you try not to write poems about teeth being tombstones
    (+) death: a cure for ailments
    (+) a treasured DVD of industrious chewing
    (+) pool hall regulars with implacable serrated teeth
    (+) lip hair on a meat grinder
    (+) Sean Connery

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  73. eatmorewords

    teeth left in the coat that covered the meat
    raw and uncooked
    night time classes in taxidermy
    – being able to separate this from that lie from fact
    – ambiguity and confusion
    man or woman, you decide.

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  74. eatmorewords

    over in Hollywood a movie is being made featuring the ghosts of everyone who’s died in between 2010 – 2016 –
    bedsheet projectors
    – I’ve fallen behind with my correspondence
    – it has been noted
    – finding the effort to employ ghost writers and an actor to play me while I sleep

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  75. multiplemichael

    bookish, bespectacled, white-sheeted ghost
    leaky nut sac below the hamburger tube
    the savage practice of masturbation
    the smell of sphincters plural
    his nose a tool to the cipher
    post-coital prophylactic jitters
    uncorked jism curds

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  76. eatmorewords

    STREAM-OF-CONSCIOUSNESS

    •seeing the same people every day like life is a loop
    •desire to rummage through neighbours trash
    •the smell of petrol
    •drawing outlines of undiscovered islands in the back of library books
    •collecting combs you find on the floor
    •pubic hair knotted like dreadlocks
    •a first kiss tasting of chewing gum and nicotine
    •Buddhist monks help cremate the dead after natural disaster
    •John Wayne

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  77. multiplemichael

    secret thoughts about post-mortem rape
    fur and choppers and a finger in
    the pleasure outside shadows
    ———–they say the prison cell is the living death
    no barred windows only stained concrete
    people weigh an alibi against forgetfulness
    a corroborated alibi please
    endless misunderstandings

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  78. multiplemichael

    booby-trapped stomach heaves
    obstacle course to the latrine
    frazzled and disoriented
    open to risk
    crowds of bowler-hatted employees
    stifled wishes on your daily loop
    ****ashy residue from Germany

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  79. multiplemichael

    life inside the cage becomes progressively more unmanageable
    daily behavior that ultimately causes more discomfort
    all social contact is supported by dishonesty
    pulling out because of shame
    and then sticking again
    and getting stuck

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  80. multiplemichael

    everyone in the circle blames somebody
    it is nearly impossible to accurately assess
    the condition of any family member
    grade school to arrest
    prosecution and incarceration
    the diversion from discomfort
    drives one to the ultimate trauma
    ****prison is the castle of historical traumas

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  81. multiplemichael

    all living creatures suffer some manner of molestation
    hidden maps and crazy clocks
    ever-increasing anxiety
    ——the flashlight violates the value system of darkness
    darkness remains unmanageable
    POETS BEG TO BE VOLUNTEERS

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  82. multiplemichael

    medical field meats
    meat as a free choice not a compulsion
    dressing up meat to display
    a private image of meat and a public image
    surrender to meat
    macho type—hanging (hung)
    powerless to walk away
    non-communicative
    free-floating shame
    inappropriate nicknames for meat
    lewd meat jokes
    thoughts about seduction
    meat abstinence
    speaking in a foreign language in the meat department
    meat as a shortcut to avoid discomfort
    unspoken deals with the butcher

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  83. multiplemichael

    not once did I ask about your high school yearbook
    page after page of Rorschach ink blots
    your unique personal history
    sodomy—definable, diagnosable
    ****others have had to find their way

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  84. eatmorewords

    a world of booby-traps
    look before you leap
    look before you walk
    green man says go
    red man says stop
    potholes that lead subterranean
    a world within a world
    stomach so empty and throat that feels like it’s been sliced

    still better then fighting in a trench

    the fear of
    the rise of
    the robots

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  85. eatmorewords

    a cage with revolving doors and windows – the office of computers and filling cabinets
    important information highlighted in fluorescent green
    – daily behaviour is Pavlovian
    salivating hounds
    we love the master that beats us

    the glue that binds the yeasts that sticks

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  86. eatmorewords

    naked on a cross
    cross at being naked
    all eyes staring
    all fingers pointing at the meat
    THE MEAT

    small, maybe
    but meat all the same

    you can see through the hole in Christ’s side

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  87. eatmorewords

    heavy users of all things
    drink drug words
    no passport to get you over the border
    no ladder to climb the walls
    the manager demanded a signature
    he demanded an upfront payment
    – not brave enough to say hello to her
    a lost library card
    a credit card expired
    a pocket full of change
    useless verbs

    I’m going

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  88. multiplemichael

    the manifestations of Pocahontas
    stolen library cards
    credit cards of dead relatives
    poetic wheels in the sky
    the curveship of the man-organ
    an instant recognition of oneself
    unspoken affection

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  89. multiplemichael

    WE LIVE THE MASTER THAT GLUES OUR FEET TO THE FLOOR
    submission to the pressures
    sailors who drown in love
    and yet find themselves reborn
    (people in Kentucky know nothing of Phoenician Sodomy)
    a heap of maps beached on the shore
    coated in sperm and procreative jelly
    possibly a flush from above
    YES—SOMEONE ORCHESTRATES THE RELEASE OF ANGEL SEMEN
    beyond the death obsessions of earth
    beyond the acceptance of death
    the true abandonment of striving

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  90. multiplemichael

    the trouble with ordinariness
    THE TROUBLE WITH ORDINARINESS
    the trouble with ordinariness
    ————–it purchases an American firearm
    and kills and injures innocent people

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  91. multiplemichael

    kept down there smoldering
    suppressed since puberty
    manly love in all its glory
    wrecked automobiles and broken arms
    friendship ripped like a scab
    ( a harsher Judaic code )
    no one spoke of self-definition
    (+) eccentricities
    (+) pathologies
    ————“do” it without “being” it
    going too fast in the curve
    wave at the circle jerk

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  92. eatmorewords

    a circle of blame
    a culture that grows
    no test can clarify 100% where
    when the rot set in
    – propel follow A to B sometimes
    people jump the steps
    jump from birth straight to death – forget the living in between

    a doctors notebook reveals deviations from the norm

    they took an oath
    and some actually kept it

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  93. multiplemichael

    the police turned the lights on
    997 men were emerging in self-awareness
    “doing it” without “being it”
    acceptance was a tall ladder
    new skins on the top shelf
    ****watch your step—abandoned indirect language everywhere

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  94. multiplemichael

    WE LIVE THE MASTER WHO WRITES THE REARRANGEMENT
    ———-the artful rearrangement of life
    self-definition in the truck stop restroom
    each manuscript with adjustments
    introductory consequences
    core sinfulness without a face
    aromatic tongues galore

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  95. multiplemichael

    ——————————WORDS CHANNELED
    solitude in dark places
    and then the words attack
    words demanding to be brought to the surface
    the wooded undergrowth cannot contain them
    sexual incense burning—the smell of the pubis
    the good and the bad are thoroughly intertwined

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  96. eatmorewords

    sounding like over exposed mantras
    a disenchanted actor
    12 automobiles in his garage
    motivational nonsense

    unable to find the end of the rope
    unable to find the middle of the woods

    how can you define yourself when the definitions change?

    I saw a car crash
    metal into metal glass scattered and the radio kept playing
    kept playing on and on and on

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  97. multiplemichael

    male genitals with Pentecostal voices
    giant ten foot tall dongs
    ———-MELVILLE STANDS PROUD
    his famous book stuck up the secluded spot
    of every student studying literature
    ****posters of the beast hung in the bathroom of the pool hall

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  98. eatmorewords

    a tin of red blood paint
    red blood
    painting hanging on a wall where passer-bys look up and stare
    but never enough time to make an assessment
    to reach a conclusion
    naive expressions

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  99. multiplemichael

    ——————-DISENCHANTED ACTOR
    the wife saying, “we’ll sing no song today”
    fresh locks on the love-nest
    the lack of celebration
    the birth of revelation
    poetry
    the jargon of isolation

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  100. multiplemichael

    ****you were seven years old
    and the Sunday School teacher told the class
    “re-erection equals resurrection”
    the same sentiment was written
    on the pool hall bathroom stall
    —in a more vulgar tone

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  101. multiplemichael

    the guys at the coffee shop were talking
    about medical masturbation (?)
    hungering desires
    lead to “UNDERNEATH YOURSELVES”
    people just fold up and turn to death
    stifled and white from the sham

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  102. multiplemichael

    prophets and pushers
    disenfranchised fringes
    unfinished ballads
    Dark Town streets
    pharmaceutical poetry
    crude—almost amateurish
    faraway violins behind the words
    American souls so blank as to be colorless

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  103. multiplemichael

    sink back in the shadows of Dark Town
    perpetual erection—perpetual conflict
    the repressed self is knocking
    —————–where is the unfolding ?
    the warm hand, the warm mouth, the open hole
    an evasive partner——reality not appearance
    the sham is a bulldozer in high gear
    ****remove the mask and it is soon replaced

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  104. eatmorewords

    (a pithy observation)

    A man and woman stand next to each other. They are both wearing glasses and matching football shirts. They could be siblings or lovers. I don’t know. They say a dog will resemble its owner. There is a shop in the background.

    jargon debased all her favourite words – a new language devoid of vowel
    words spoken via fingers and thumbs

    only language and knowledge evolves these days
    everything else

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  105. eatmorewords

    spring the bastard off spring of summer
    hidden away behind the cloak of winter
    always in someone’s shadow
    the bridegroom
    never the bride

    green fingered monster

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  106. multiplemichael

    your man and woman
    disturbing
    based on reality
    based on appearance
    possibly platonic
    phallic arousal kept under a rock
    ashamed in the bathroom
    future spouse can penetrate the door
    ****imprisonment of the poet (procreation)

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  107. multiplemichael

    —————————————–THE BRIDEGROOM
    —————————————–NEVER THE BRIDE
    simple answer: the persona of Christ
    the difficulty of following him—his gospel
    poets ponder his personal loneliness and isolation
    church fathers ponder his fulfillment in death
    ****the promise of union with God

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  108. multiplemichael

    I SAW YOU SITTING THERE WITH AMNESIA IN A RAT TRAP
    follow that through Johnny with domestication of poetry
    produce more poetry in captivity
    optimum conditions
    knots of thoughts
    kinky knots
    and all you had to do
    was show your shot record
    and have a navel
    education was a breeze

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  109. multiplemichael

    YOUR AMNESIA IN AN EFFLORESCENCE OF GREEN
    bright Hungarian gypsy pants
    current literary fashion
    no doubt
    the little lady in 20 pounds
    of denim
    is denim autobiographical ?
    belly up or be clobbered by the view
    payment (repayment)
    ****toting around an image no one knows

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  110. multiplemichael

    YOU FORGOT YOUR PENCIL AND PAPER
    no two poets can agree how to escape
    ninety-nine percent of all poetry has been thrown away
    sometimes it is shoved in tailpipes
    I remember that you had special Christmas dreams
    stuffing your words in the tailpipe of Elvis Presley
    ****your chatter at the table angered Dad’s nervous malady

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  111. eatmorewords

    artful arrangement of all these words
    there will be consequences if the wrong exit is used
    methodical approach to honeymoon gymnastics
    the prince is dead
    Long live the prince

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  112. multiplemichael

    PATTED ON THE HEAD————–PATTED ON THE HEAD
    twice-over words like the rails for the TRAIN
    shenanigans at best
    the tangles remain
    ****people who can read and write have a hobby

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  113. multiplemichael

    pillowcase dreams about the applause
    INTELLIGENT APPLAUSE
    not the cheering and stamping of the pool hall
    not the wearing of an octopus as a hat
    contemporary poetry
    outspoken by the tailpipes of Elvis Presley

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  114. multiplemichael

    I often think about when Father put a gun to your head
    and told you to redefine every minute of your future
    he cared nothing for philosophy or entertainment
    he was trying to force you to evaluate
    your inner worth
    ****outer manifestation of inner worth

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  115. eatmorewords

    the inner worth was sold for a penny an inch
    memories filed under headings:
    •first album
    •grazed knee
    •cloud of death
    •the teeth of dead leader
    •skin
    • her and / she

    all to aid the memory

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  116. multiplemichael

    ****(small hands)
    ——————————————————small hands
    the tree grows… the limbs become large
    another suicide to the wind
    a nameless city wind
    more meaningfully here than elsewhere
    the dialect of a hairy lip
    biblical tobacco in a pipe
    painless to the point of tears
    (Robert Frost—a painkiller that doesn’t work)

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  117. multiplemichael

    I tried to stay awake
    on your promise of cotton bottom tomorrow
    thoughts of husbands and wives and wacky lovers
    celebrity-chaser pills and bath salt powerhouses
    women who talked about Manhattan all night
    but thought true romance was found in Ohio
    ——————+++++++++++——————–
    a sneak peek gynecologist with a handy Kleenex
    strangers arrived knowing their “privates” were to be on display
    elastic skin that knew sexual jubilation and off-putting sorrow
    communication with the nose—communication around the mommy-hole

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  118. eatmorewords

    a dream where you had tiny hands and couldn’t pick anything up
    – total frustration
    – objects dropped around your feet
    – a city with a river that runs through it
    – dead computers at the bottom of the lake

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  119. eatmorewords

    the ladies at the coffee shop were talking about celebrity deaths
    – rating them
    •how much did they cry?
    •did they like them?
    •had they seen their film
    heard their my music?

    reason for death:speculation
    death is waiting at the pool hall

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  120. eatmorewords

    the applause was lost in the roll of thunder cracking open the sky
    a raw wound

    the daily horoscope were cut and pasted from a year ago

    flarf and assorted mumbo jumbo

    a pocket full of vouchers from cheap food and discounted shoes

    in 1974 the sun shone down and glistened & reflected of Elvis’s rhinestone suit –
    people reported a kaleidoscope of colours
    ethereal light shining
    some report ailments had vanished
    the lame walked
    tumours gone

    CTRL ALT DELETE
    CTRL ALT DELETE
    CTRL ALT DELETE

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  121. multiplemichael

    I ALWAYS PONDER HOW ONE MEASURES AN INCH
    ———–WHAT SIZE IS AN INCH ?———————-
    astronomers searching for a flaw
    interior space behind the belly button
    the place before trees and grass
    servants there and servants here
    instructions to remain
    behind the camouflage
    originality
    please don’t show your face

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  122. multiplemichael

    current misconceptions about poets
    a tiny shelf in a bookstore
    with books of primitive poetry
    paper with all the color
    boiled out
    I TOLD THEM THAT YOU HAD POKED PROFESSORS
    THAT YOU HAD POKED OTHER GUARDIANS OF LITERATURE

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  123. multiplemichael

    a photo of himself at 12 years of age
    the phenomena of puberty
    was attacking his comrades
    he had driven through that city
    the definition was not new
    a bathhouse is a bathhouse

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  124. eatmorewords

    a photo of a small boy standing in front of a 13ft fork
    little knees Nike feet
    the dream of the small hands
    comrades sheltering each other from the bombs
    tanks on the horizon
    bullets in a gun
    the fallen church the rubble of sentences erased
    feeble attempts at escape

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  125. multiplemichael

    between World Wars or after World Wars
    the 13ft Fork will be used
    to remove the rubble of sentences
    to build the New Jerusalem
    a city free of historical poetry
    heirs of the past will be refused entrance

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  126. multiplemichael

    ****continuous flesh not joined
    not a single hippy
    or drug-visionary
    or sodomite
    FLARF became unpublishable
    Americans sold mattresses stuffed with it
    foot-traffic in the sleep world

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  127. multiplemichael

    snag one little point
    ————————————Daniel Libeskind
    7000 phone calls—conversations
    immediate and often unexpected
    spinning spiel baby bird
    achievements that have gone before
    residues on the cutlery
    motivations—pervasive influences
    the baton passed in the dark
    YES—-THAT WAS ME !!!

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  128. multiplemichael

    ————-SEEING THE SAME PEOPLE EVERY DAY LIKE LIFE IS A LOOP
    sequential discoveries that validate themselves
    poets often come to terms with immediate feelings
    disquieting cutlery in America
    a spoon is a spoon
    a knife is a knife
    but a fork is almost never just a fork

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  129. eatmorewords

    size is relative and the number don’t alway add up
    inch on inch becomes a mile
    to be seen from space was her dream –
    – the thicket below the belly button the camouflage along her fuselage-
    – hidden below the main subject
    the comments are for the explorers
    off the beaten track
    birthday cards from your father

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  130. eatmorewords

    refused entrance at the night club
    – turned tail
    all signs point to the pool room
    jive talking bohemians creating a new lexicon
    – the first brick of Babel was stolen from the library
    – left a hole to look through

    where is your passport?
    show the Otis man you Id

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  131. eatmorewords

    bonfire flarf
    mattress flarf
    scarecrow flarf
    keep the home fires burning
    we’ll use their words

    footfall at the poetry stand

    awake for 156hrs when the finishing line became visible

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  132. multiplemichael

    the question of the day:
    WHY DOES HEAVEN HAVE WALLS AND A GATE ?
    ========================================
    easy to find disappointment
    even with clean underpants
    readers speak highly
    of WILLINGNESS to allow development
    they want you to bend over in the prison shower
    to drop to your knees in the truck stop latrine
    to vomit the religion of your ancestors
    LIFE IS A RELAY-RACE IN THE DARK

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  133. multiplemichael

    YEARS OF PLAYING BEATLE MUSIC BACKWARDS
    The Beatles were a tribe
    their music was accumulated experience
    noises picked up from daily haunts
    lyrics of polished artifacts
    that possibly flared
    damaged romance
    countless losses
    scholarly snot

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  134. multiplemichael

    HOPE FOR AN UNDERSTANDING
    employees at the cutlery factory printed those words
    on folded paper for the wish box at Christmas
    the lack of sufficient information killed the cat
    suitcases full of incomprehensible prose
    words that looked like cabbages—zucchini dongs
    afternoons full of static on the radio
    reversals of direction
    naked afterthoughts

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  135. multiplemichael

    Otis Man at his truck
    ———–if only his work might be more palatable
    a bitten tongue and a funky big toe
    fond characterizations of his wife
    and her apples—DNA straight from Genesis
    ****Adam thought, “check out them apples”

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  136. eatmorewords

    the pigment washed off the paragraphs as the words literally fell from the page –
    – a storm of letters falling and no umbrella can keep you safe –
    a harsh K imbedded in a vagrants head
    the fat O that bounced down the street crushing patrol cars
    full stop raindrops

    this poem is available free on line
    edit as you seem fit
    easy to disappoint

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  137. eatmorewords

    backwards messages spelt out the name Jagger and gave the secret of Nazi gold –

    however it was high pitched and only dogs could hear it

    the joke was on us

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  138. eatmorewords

    no propeller before the crash landing
    an outline of the body in the ground
    on the honeymoon bed
    strangled and chocked on words to large to roll around your mouth

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  139. multiplemichael

    AN UNTIMELY DEATH PREVENTED (famous musician)
    FROM REVEALING HIS GENDER CHANGE
    DAYS EARLIER IT TURNED GREEN
    ————which was worse ?
    HOW IT LOOKED or HOW IT SMELLED
    WHEN PEOPLE TALK ABOUT THAT VAULT
    CRAZY DOLLAR SIGNS FLASH IN THEIR EYES
    THE VAULT WAS TO LIBERATE HIM FROM ALL CONSTRAINTS
    AN EASY ACESS WHERE MEN COULD TOUCH HIS FEMININITY
    ****with the lights on, it looked like a holiday turkey without the stuffing

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  140. eatmorewords

    dollar sign eyes with no binary
    a bit of this
    51% that
    liberated but not from chains
    trussed up meat plucked and ready
    read into it what you will
    what you read into it will change

    just put yourself in that position get yourself a new haircut

    inches taller in heels

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  141. eatmorewords

    it only works at night
    it only works at night

    daylight shakes
    apple cores never eaten discarded like chicken bones

    the dizzy NASCAR man looking for equilibrium

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  142. eatmorewords

    don’t rush into it
    or your’ll only have to extricate yourself from it
    helicopter rescue
    for one
    ITS BEEN A PRETTY MISERABLE

    DAY ROUND HERE
    cash: hand out
    money likes to escape from my hand
    in a pocket inside
    a puppets stomach

    I CAN TALK WITH MY HANDS
    I TALK WITH MY HANDS

    – that famous writer you used to love
    I burnt his words the other night
    no fireman with hoses or
    red vans with ringing bells to
    wake the town

    there is alarm here

    ————————————-

    •1970s safety awareness film
    •meat and circling flies
    •tripping on loose paving stone
    •stay off the moors

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  143. multiplemichael

    DRIFTING IN THE CLOUDS
    storybook—in the bedroom sleeping
    any rescue requires rehearsal
    words become legal
    one says this and later that
    one says that and later this
    relatives with lethal anecdotes
    relatives with mold inside their ears
    dead lichen and dust down deep
    granted they speak but never listen

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  144. multiplemichael

    who knew the rescue would be crowded with clouds ?
    often we fail those in their direst hour
    help can never be soon enough
    —————————-(+)———
    burning words
    old words already eaten away by worms
    not freshly scrawled words
    I pray
    the ink smells like pistachios
    ****please remove the Christian Pipings from your trousers

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  145. multiplemichael

    POETRY ABOUT A CLIPPED BIRD
    a master technician
    from OTIS
    one testicle was a reptile egg
    one testicle was a billiard ball
    small constricted pouch
    HIS LIFE NOT BEING A NOVEL
    and yet it had a novel’s progression
    escalators and elevators
    the feet saved flashbacks
    expressive silent steps

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  146. multiplemichael

    HE HOLDS UP A PHOTO OF HIMSELF AT 12 YEARS OF AGE
    YEARS BEFORE THE UNISEX COCAINE—THE TIGHT-FITTING SKIN
    ORGANS ON AUTOMATIC PILOT—THE SECRET KENNEDY GLAND
    ——CHILDHOOD ANGST IS COMMONPLACE
    OBSESSED WITH PUSH PINS AND STATISTICS
    INSTRUCTIONAL MASTURBATION NOT RECREATIONAL

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  147. multiplemichael

    AROUND THE FIRE STAYING WARM ON ONE SIDE
    relatives with distended bellies
    starving babies
    odd pancake breasts
    dermatological frights
    reality was misdiagnosed
    ****all the way in the halfway world

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  148. multiplemichael

    I know how much you enjoy buying cigars
    from pretty cigar girls
    (transcendent sublimity)
    thinking constantly
    “does one take a final pee
    before entering the portals of heaven ?”

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  149. multiplemichael

    the cigar girl said,
    “underscoring, annotating, marginal comments
    ———that’s what makes modern poetry”
    I was thinking criticism and chastening
    revelation and sodomy
    unpredictable behavior
    being kept off balance
    ****poets in green jackets playing golf on black sand

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  150. multiplemichael

    birthday cards from your father
    and other desperadoes
    adopted aliases
    multiple identities
    slickers
    ——————————-polka-dancing
    a real “harpooner” with the lady folks
    gallons of seed deposited
    the fancy ones had nicknames

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  151. eatmorewords

    a reputation of repetition
    repetition repetition
    the ins and the outs
    the tunnels and passages
    dry river beds
    moist verdant hills
    here in Albion
    reputation & repetition

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  152. eatmorewords

    help requested
    Morse code translated
    good intentions picked up by dirty hands
    smoke signals from the reservation blown away in the breeze
    or lost in translation

    help us always on its way

    the trousers were removed and burnt

    follow the trail of pistachio shells

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  153. multiplemichael

    IRRITABLE WITH THE SURROGATE HUSBAND
    asking for
    an open invitation to explore his lower parts
    not
    as simple as playing the piano
    physical intimacy with other humans
    bawdy pillow talk
    ****smuggling a tobacco pipe into Heaven
    Moby Dick (a spouting fish)
    hardly
    a fish

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  154. multiplemichael

    I saw you outside with the flashlight
    YES, there are limitations to scientific knowledge
    ——————————Biblical Echoes
    the impossibility of achieving certainty
    childlike perception in the grasp of the flashlight
    hugged up tightly that bridegroom
    wolfish ways in a savage land
    toils, trials, tribulations
    renegades and castaways
    sentences in the bathroom
    paragraphs in the stall
    blocks of blackness in Dark Town
    a bold tomahawk makes a man
    would-be poets cover their holes

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  155. multiplemichael

    ———————-BLASPHEMOUS LEVIATHAN———————-
    just today those words jumped off the page
    the strangling hands of Jesus and God
    the strangling control of all religions
    ye who is orphaned
    and vulgar white

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  156. multiplemichael

    ONCE THE INITIAL SHOCK AND EMBARRASSMENT WORE OFF
    THE HONEYMOON BUMPY ROUGH RIDE BEGAN
    HE PRAYED THAT THE WAND WOULD SLIP IN UNOBSERVED
    “SLIPPED IN UNOBSERVED” what a pleasant thought
    BUT LIKE A GIANT EGG-MAN ON A WALL
    THINGS DIDN’T HOLD UP AS PLANNED

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  157. multiplemichael

    with the burden of being a man
    why do we reside inside ourselves ?
    we sleep with the spoons and forks
    a link in the fleshly chain
    we sleep with the broom and the dust pan
    having grown cold-hearted and worn
    WE HAVE ENDURED TOO MUCH TOO OFTEN
    ———————–AUTO-INTOXICATION———–
    who was famous for saying
    “I can see but not touch” ?
    romantically broken
    each new Adam
    each new Eve

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  158. eatmorewords

    piano keys and door keys that scratch car doors
    names carved into trees to declare you once existed

    did you RSVP to the invitation?

    harpooned the meat and store it ice

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  159. eatmorewords

    I’ve seen words jump off a page and just walk straight into the sunset
    – do you really want a Hollywood ending?
    – vulgar and white
    – a speeding car
    – the confusion of will

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  160. multiplemichael

    DO I REALLY WANT A HOLLYWOOD ENDING ?
    with endless bouts of panic outside my front door
    I would enjoy the hum from the engines of fornication
    ———they call it, “UNUTTERABLE BLISS”

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  161. multiplemichael

    MASTURBATORY SCENARIOS should replace
    the need to scratch automobile doors
    adaptive relatives and friends
    to assist the sexual imagination
    xxx dictionaries if necessary
    sexual fodder—dead or alive

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  162. multiplemichael

    HARPOONED THE MEAT
    and everyone in the village had their fill
    the bridegroom had no idea
    that his sex life would evolve
    EROSION
    that his sex life would become a mudslide
    UNWILLINGNESS AND BOREDOM
    would turn intense desire into intense revulsion

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  163. multiplemichael

    photographs of the resuscitation of Johnny Boy
    over the side of the Ark
    inside the Leviathan
    one silent minute to smoke
    a pipe
    and
    swallow
    a sip of strong tea
    one minute to liberate his mind
    to be free of the fear
    ****the shadowy background always in sight

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  164. multiplemichael

    pulled from the inside of the creature
    Johnny Boy concerned
    “what has he missed during his dormancy ?”
    relatives chase and retrieve what is thrown their way
    the summertime wife has turned to late fall
    her alphabet on the pillow and the shower floor

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  165. multiplemichael

    just try and fit TAXIDERMY into a single sentence
    ————————————-into a single skin
    overexposed on the online dating circuit
    a boy—no, a man
    having gone only halfway
    forgivable caresses—overeager caresses
    forgivable kisses—mistimed kisses
    playacting lips
    ****poseurs and piddlers from Dark Town

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  166. multiplemichael

    topic of the day at the pool hall
    ———-HUMPTY DUMPTY—-
    couldn’t take the earthquake
    and sit upright like a man
    ****somewhere there is a parable
    about the value of advanced mathematics

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  167. eatmorewords

    the pigment washed off the paragraphs as the words literally fell from the page*
    – a storm of letters falling and no umbrella can keep you safe –
    a harsh K imbedded in a vagrants head
    the fat O that bounced down the street crushing patrol cars
    full stop raindrops

    *this poem is available free on line
    edit as you seem fit

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  168. multiplemichael

    pity the poor bridegroom
    who comments about his wife
    “your backside and thighs are indicative
    of descent with modification”
    later in life he will learn to self-correct
    and never mention
    that is wife may be a native
    from New Guinea

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  169. eatmorewords

    a generalised character
    amalgamation of a five photofits
    a police line up –
    Dillingers chin
    the eyes of suspect #4
    eruption and the aftermath of fallen factories

    – constant click bait kills the mouse

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  170. multiplemichael

    A CHRISTMAS CARD WITH A ROW OF PRISONERS
    LIKE A ROBERT FROST POEM
    WHEN WILL THE RIFLE FIRE ?
    short-circuiting on the honeymoon
    well-laid plans gone wrong (awry)
    ricocheting sperms
    jism on the lampshade
    8000 cigarette burns on the nightstand
    the smell of the oil refinery
    the sound of bowling pins
    flashing lights from the complaint board
    legitimate and illegitimate children
    naked in the knee-deep pool
    one twelve o’clock and three midnights

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  171. multiplemichael

    comment after comment–masturbative jabber
    educated and dexterous
    peppered with roach dung
    my crime—I asked where the electricity came from
    that powered their electric toys
    fire feeds color to black and white

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  172. eatmorewords

    view of headboard getting closer then moving away
    lose change next to the Gideon
    loose wires
    her circuits were fizzing
    best laid plans of mice and men lost in time
    – ed gein lampshades of indiscriminate origin cast tattoo shadows –
    clatter of pins & the balls at the pool hall
    – chalked the tip
    wet the rim
    the lady at reception knew it was fake name

    the broken clock is right twice a day

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    the nervous cleaner at the hotel
    not sure of what lurked behind the door
    (it was just dirty sheets and embarrassment)

    – a leaflet in the lobby advising of local attractions*

    *no mention of the Jazz men of dark town

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  174. multiplemichael

    —BACKPEDALING IN THE BEDROOM
    —(SHE) TIPTOEING TO TAKE A PEE
    a small number of people fascinated
    by honeymoon phenomena
    scientific pressures and jism trails
    rural activities—Appalachian “Dung Frolic”
    followed by “giraffe necking”
    NOT POLITICALLY INCORRECT
    BUT, CHEAP WHISKEY INCORRECT

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  175. multiplemichael

    and then the lady at the front desk said,
    “traditional narrative is dead”
    as she examined my ID with microscopic intensity
    I left the sexual persuasion question blank

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  176. multiplemichael

    A GATHERING OF POETS IN THE BONE SOUP
    hairy legs and baritone voices
    big dreams and small dreams
    grammatical errors
    overlapping diapers
    knowing there be plenty of room
    underground with melancholy
    triumphant splendor in the dirt
    DNA straight from Genesis
    survival walking on the earth map
    doesn’t seem like too much to ask
    reliance on fragments and a morning bus
    diary scraps on the floor
    the driver—seamless and stubborn
    Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac
    mean less than speed bumps

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  177. multiplemichael

    mischievous children
    carry the keys of language
    slabs of nameless graves
    sleep outside the front door
    geometrical demons
    haunt poets
    with rudiments of architecture
    ****architecture swerving

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  178. eatmorewords

    hibernation inside fur
    the entrails hung out of every open pore
    trails left like snails

    the winter time thaw &
    spring time clean reveals things that were lost and buried

    her wedding dress at the pawn shop, the ripped knee of her jeans

    “For richer or poorer” he reminded her daily,”For richer or poorer”

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  179. multiplemichael

    HIBERNATION: A HOBBY INVOLVING A SKELETAL BARGE
    ———————————————————————————–
    a room full of men with hairy stalks
    slender little tongues exercising
    poetry with a cranium crust
    daddy quoted from the system of whatnot
    word after word—spreaders and interceptors
    closing the eyes and listening
    ————————————-
    hiding in a small room
    and dropping a load
    (the commode smiles as it swallows)

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  180. multiplemichael

    THE FABRIC THREADS OF HIBERNATION
    ———————————————————–
    trousers from curtains
    trousers from a tapestry
    uneducated cloth
    ****exaggeration-prone

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  181. eatmorewords

    architectural frustrations
    20years of schooling and they won’t let you built a cabin
    – wasted time with blueprints of slanted roofs and south facing gardens –
    – the strange lights in Kentucky haunted the skyline
    – the photographs you took were fuzzy and out of focus
    – you tried to recreate the scene with mashed potato*

    *close encounters

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  182. eatmorewords

    hairy men at the lodge
    dead animal head on the wall
    trophies like brides
    daddies diaries* seemed to miss some days
    blank pages leading to rumour and speculation

    *i remember the day my parents were revealed as soviet spies

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  183. multiplemichael

    UNJUSTLY ACCUSED OF BEING SOVIET SPIES—FORENSICALLY
    how does one not differentiate between us and them ?
    bickering about a missing bomb or two
    bickering about the shaving mirror
    and her personal gash
    Elizabethan hairs
    like a monkey
    a demonic
    monkey

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  184. multiplemichael

    catching a plane to toss a ____
    a hard-boiled ____
    a bomb with a skin
    and a wardrobe
    the corpse
    inside
    ——————————–soviet spies as parents
    with extinction in the back of educated minds
    with extinction in the back of their minds
    a gaping grave for us all

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  185. multiplemichael

    the clink of ice cubes in a cocktail glass
    children struggle to remain afloat
    every rope becomes a noose
    they escape
    but gravity
    rules
    question not
    the length of robe
    transvestites maniacally printing your name
    the letters of your name —flapping wings

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  186. eatmorewords

    the clues were there
    – smell of cabbage
    – fur hats in the hatstand
    – sleep taking in Cyrillic
    – everyone being called comrade
    they stored their secrets in biscuit jars and buried them with the potatoes –

    the only monkey they knew was sent into space

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  187. eatmorewords

    we can all fill in the blanks but the narrative will change
    – the motive
    the motivation to veer from the path*
    (they know how the corpse got inside;
    they numbered the skeletons under the bed
    amongst the dust)

    *were they double agents? playing both ends off?
    – never extinct
    just missing for a while

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  188. multiplemichael

    jars from the sanatorium
    spoons with portraits of Mozart
    portrayals and betrayals
    scissory sharp questions
    about how much you knew
    the sound of swivels late at night
    illicit dialogue between strangers
    tiptoes into the bathroom
    accordion-like noises
    possibly alien mathematics
    expertise at nervous torment
    the word “Casablanca”
    written on your report card
    seems preoccupied
    with personal hygiene
    often asks if it is possible
    to irrigate the body internally

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  189. multiplemichael

    Johnny Boy on holiday in St Moritz
    puzzled by the motivations
    of relatives
    soviet performers as parents
    the morning roll-call of spies
    the play-acts of death
    the guns
    the knives
    pungent cruelty

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  190. multiplemichael

    ——————the hardships of poetry
    the original and the copies
    obscure words from lifted knees
    words that need a handler
    someone
    to control the residue of guilt

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  191. eatmorewords

    ice dissolves and is gone
    glasses from sand
    knife and sword and heavy gravity
    – the letters of my name are not unique they can be found in the small print of all things –
    flapping wings*

    *if man was to fly he’d need wings and a chest 15foot wide

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  192. eatmorewords

    Casablanca associated with piano and Nazis – of all the places in all the world –
    upside down portraits in spoon reflections
    sharp questions
    the sound of the factory at night
    WHAT ARE THEY MAKING THERE?
    WHAT ARE THEY MAKING THERE?

    multiple Michael projected imagery across three cities

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  193. eatmorewords

    guilt stored or suppressed
    buried in the woods
    the thing of fables
    reconstruct your childhood
    the summer grazed knees sweat on top lip the memory of things that never end

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  194. multiplemichael

    the letters of any name may not be unique
    however, cunning and unscrupulous letters
    crafty letters devised to attain a particular end
    poets love to hammer things home
    bizarre experiments with practitioners of JOHNNY
    ———————idols of the cave
    human eyes lead to errors of judgment
    ape-identifying contests
    theatrical performances
    around the camp fire

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  195. multiplemichael

    richer or poorer
    counterparts from the pool hall
    playwright—no
    novelist—no
    Russian spy—yes
    hidden drawings of subterranean pleasure
    ****an uneasiness (no sweeter suffering)

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  196. multiplemichael

    sources of contamination
    the king of poetry: solitary indulgence
    sexual gymnastics—misconduct
    without diplomas
    =============
    versemakers in debt with no resuscitation
    the full bellows of others
    they sleep sound

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  197. multiplemichael

    unperceived debt
    and debt customarily seen
    riddling poetry about soviet spies
    half-closed eyes on a rather small pony
    enlarging lenses of binoculars
    like Hollywood upside down
    ====================
    I know you tried to hook me up
    with Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop
    I thank you dearly—such exemplars of the first order
    “birch white flesh to the broken halves
    and there just a touch of pink”
    sorry to say that the opening was cramped and dry
    I swear I could smell Robert Frost in the roof of hair

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  198. multiplemichael

    your life is a series of questions and speculations
    so many contradictory
    a pocket full of alphabetical devices
    spy stuff like in the movies and on television
    early relationships with elevator men
    physics-chemistry-biology-sodomy

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  199. multiplemichael

    —————–TENACIOUSNESS——————-
    a common term at the pool hall
    youth bathed in the pale radiance
    of nicotine-coated lighting
    empty youth
    having never contained
    or been expressible

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  200. multiplemichael

    ———what about the retention of the copyright ?
    a pungent smell of satire
    windbags in the soup kitchen
    mischievous children trained with candy
    images of Sputnik on nameless graves
    higher mathematics with biblical overtones
    seeds stuck in flawed tubes
    the bulk of pilgrims
    just leg jelly

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  201. multiplemichael

    sensitive words wasted
    poetry too trivial to save
    gay tailors with blue eyes
    fair complexions
    tiny tight mouths
    ===================
    cries of jackals
    howls of wolves
    anatomy laid bare

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  202. multiplemichael

    the poet neighbor outside
    his thoughts aimless
    at best
    no trip to the library
    necessary
    Robert Frost has fouled the system
    people who can read
    obey his stream of thought

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  203. multiplemichael

    wake up next to a dough-like body
    silent thoughts of “purpose imposed”
    before the daily events of life
    after the daily events of life
    evil men sow but not seed
    black face religion people say
    “put it away”
    ****sprouting seed for sensation only

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  204. multiplemichael

    no cave dwelling for Lincoln
    self-dwelling
    a solar cone in his pocket
    so very significant in his form
    the true man never photographed
    =========================
    upright—an angel born twice
    he who slept with men
    and dreamed of Swedenborg

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  205. multiplemichael

    WITH ITS SINGLE SAD STORY
    JAZZ NECESSARY
    JAZZ UNNECESSARY
    ONCE EVOKED
    IT STARTS EACH NASCAR RACE
    MATHEMATICIANS UNDERSTAND
    GOLDEN NUMBERS BURNING ROCKET FUEL
    DIVIDED AND MULTIPLIED IN A CIRCLE
    CALCULATIONS BEGET CHILDREN AND PETS

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  206. eatmorewords

    poets hemmed in behind wires
    – people in watchtowers with guns
    – words written on bedsheets & hung out to dry
    you can see the steam rising from the showers

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  207. eatmorewords

    letters that appear ghost written in the sky
    one replaces another
    meat
    meet
    hidden in the open
    words with no sounds
    – a harsh K and long pauses

    words left in the embers of last nights fire

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  208. multiplemichael

    PSYCHIC WOUNDS IN INFANCY
    REPRESSIONS AND WOES FROM YOUTH
    RETALIATORY THOUGHTS FROM A SKINNED KNEE
    ————————–confrontation leads to poetry
    your head being interpretation central

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  209. multiplemichael

    the wealth and comfort in your education
    ———is that the campfire we speak of ?
    the other apes would bluster and brag
    glory to the insult
    glory to the knee injury
    a simple scrape that would fester
    and ramify your future

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  210. multiplemichael

    each manifestation of the will
    each day calculated
    sadistic sketchy secondhand employment
    the faces of organic shame
    was sodomy on the plate ?
    ****the deepest recess not spoken of

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  211. multiplemichael

    talk of tight trousers
    and a Mick Jagger jacket
    rubdowns and wrestling
    mouthpieces all day long
    prehistoric workmates
    one kiss away
    one tiny inch in primeval
    prayers
    a bit bigger
    a bit longer

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  212. multiplemichael

    =================================================================================================================================================================================================================dreams of poets counting their money out of the presence of women

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  213. multiplemichael

    no poetry in the Leviathan Book of Algebra
    well-intentioned puritan math gone modern
    the bridegroom says
    “I’ve laid out my penis but no one can jump over it”
    muddled explanations—puzzling excuses

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  214. eatmorewords

    spy stuff
    hidden camera in the honeymoon suite
    bugs behind the picture who eyes followed you around
    invisible ink

    your public persona vs your personal one

    multiple M
    all things to all people
    once a star on the TV

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  215. eatmorewords

    all words are free
    the copyright is based on how they are strung together –
    – my lawyers are checking the small print –
    the waft of cabbage from the kitchen,
    a table in fire
    – ration book vouchers expired

    the Sputnik factory, empty
    except for children in the corners

    what would Jesus say?

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  216. eatmorewords

    people who can read and those that can draw
    the schematics of library
    the secret room
    the book that was never lent
    overdue books carry substantial fines
    a handgun in a bag

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  217. eatmorewords

    Jagger and the zombies in tight jeans someone reckons he was frozen in a vault
    preserved like a pickle
    – cemetery strut at the edge of town
    buried in shallow grave
    one inch and he’ll surface

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  218. eatmorewords

    selected the counterparts
    a counterpoint at the start
    – the spies debriefed by the detectives
    a thousand lies told to cover a thousand lies
    – the covers exposed
    double names
    identity times 2

    Multiple M surround by boxes of words
    attempts to fold them up
    pack them away

    the non-combatant in the war of words – silent and mute

    (powerless mouth)

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  219. multiplemichael

    300 cryptologists in the front yard
    perhaps today they will break the code
    cemetery pants on Jagger
    the inch of soil holding him down
    the openness of his shallow grave
    has Robert Frost in a froth

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  220. multiplemichael

    a pickle covered with nuanced vocabulary
    a touch of mustard and subtle syntax
    a psychotherapist with a huge butt
    so large that she sits on a bench
    the poet fails the free-association test
    bits and pieces assembled mean nothing
    “definitive” analysis seems wasted on the poet
    ****material in question—curtain cloth turned into trousers

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  221. multiplemichael

    gestures and facial expressions on paper money
    clenched hands in the latrine
    frozen thoughts
    time for layered study
    an extra zero
    did you print an extra zero ?

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  222. multiplemichael

    —————FAMILY PORTRAIT—————-
    not the minus eyes
    rather the extra eye
    camera snapped image
    blow-up after blow-up
    detail daddy
    **** I counted nine

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  223. multiplemichael

    down at headquarters they say that the spy camera
    couldn’t capture the whole you
    the honeymoon suite wasn’t big enough
    chatter about her budding rose
    and your trouser-blimp inflating
    but that’s just bittersweet
    marvel and melancholy

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  224. multiplemichael

    needle point at midnight
    raw intensity
    commitment
    —=====—–
    gay tailor living in a fishbowl
    a theatrical artist
    with sensitive fingers
    free of tawdriness and degeneracy
    (poetry written about unguarded moments)
    intimate touch that projects emotion
    baptismal at best

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  225. multiplemichael

    I KEPT TELLING THE SPY
    THAT HIS GIRLFRIEND WAS PREPUBESCENT
    “YOU’VE TOLD A 1000 LIES AND NOW YOU’RE LAYING ANOTHER EGG”
    I THOUGHT TO MYSELF—‘honey, if they made a pill for unreachableness
    I would make you swallow a handful”

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  226. multiplemichael

    rumor has it that Robert Frost was born with ambiguous genitalia
    obsessed with tree leaves and blades of grass
    Jacqueline Kennedy called him Eleanor
    a good girl who asked permission to potty
    (a boy who dreamed of a Christmas clitoris)

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  227. multiplemichael

    Adam the battering ram
    Adam the assaulter
    Eve the assaulted
    God commands the attacks
    the ravished single vagina
    the front door of the church
    crawl in or crawl out

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  228. eatmorewords

    paper money looks nice
    holding it is like being there but it’s ultimately worthless
    – the extra zero confused the system
    – the concept on zero, the theory of nothing – a walk through the numbers, a forest of signs

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  229. eatmorewords

    nine eyes but three heads –
    but maths always needs to balance up
    – the portrait with the extra shadow
    – the Census figures revealed more people than expected
    – couldn’t count it all on two bands

    detail daddy
    devil in the details

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  230. eatmorewords

    the tourniquet tightened focusing the vision where pictures were painted by the chemtrails in the sky, the
    Nazca lines & aluminium rain
    failing on the carrion

    near misses across the fuselage
    (not reported when they landed)

    sleep depravation experiments in underground facilities

    – futile attempts to find the centre of space –
    self control not guaranteed
    – the man who invented the concept of zero

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  231. multiplemichael

    just think, a Sumerian number zero
    with a super giant butt
    so large
    that she has to sit on a bench
    starts reciting strings of words
    ROBERT FROST steps in and says,
    “Her murmurs become the sound of nature
    like the waves of the ocean
    like the wind in the trees”

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  232. multiplemichael

    Sumerians get credit for selling the concept of zero
    peel back the layers to anything
    and you will have a Sumerian
    wide eyed and looking at you
    ————=======————-
    opposite the rest of the world
    dirty sodomy
    was more expensive
    than clean

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  233. eatmorewords

    mail order brides delivered in boxes with holes poked throwing them
    – delivered by strong postman carrying them down the path as the neighbours dog barks

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  234. multiplemichael

    once we incorporate the body of Christ
    there is no need for mail-order brides
    Noah was a clever remnant
    the person delivering the mail
    not so much
    Russians dream of tearing The Tree of Life
    limb by limb—-the arms and legs
    of poor souls trying to cross a border
    trying to locate the bones of Moses
    dyings and risings by the truckload
    genuine rewriting—the nature of words
    forgetting and reinventing—-sex out of sight
    Eve with her single disobedience
    difficult to keep crotch rotation secret
    an altered vagina with benefits
    grazing relatives and herders
    distortions began with mislabeling

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  235. multiplemichael

    the play-acts of death to produce the play-act feeling
    —————-pure pagan joy———————-
    high-stepping like the expensive horse
    high-stepping towards the unattainable
    squeezed between Mick Jagger
    and his huge tombstone
    “I’m not dead yet”
    ****the journey was fair but now—GOOD LORD, THE ARRIVAL

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  236. multiplemichael

    THE WOULD-BE COMFORTERS
    FOR THE LIBRARY CLERK
    WHO WAS “LET GO”
    FOR WRITING ABOUT THE EMPTINESS
    OF WORDS
    ****Satan shall deprive words of substance
    ****speech will stop and become a whirlwind

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  237. eatmorewords

    I explored the limits of a promised maybe
    got lost amongst the trash cans and abandoned cars –
    a repressed longing
    a weakness

    I asked for change at the exit
    I asked to see the manager who laughed in my face

    an invisible voice from the tannoy screamed “YOU HAVE COME THIS FAR
    TURN BACK NOW
    TURN BACK NOW”

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  238. multiplemichael

    ——THE SIGN SAID “SORRY BUT PROSE IS NOT POETRY”———
    not being immune I cried
    having entered LIFE
    one way
    no escape
    no return
    prose paragraphs sleeping on the bed
    poet under the bed thinking about experimental sex
    airlines keep calling offering free flight and coffee
    absurdists fly and drink for free
    ****monastic life with an experimental frisky hand

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  239. multiplemichael

    —————information provided————
    ROBERT FROST never wrote anything
    about the church door being a vagina
    ————————————————–
    =============================
    keep eyes ahead
    the church is not without hair
    reproduction is fulltime overwork
    God thought of himself as being singularly inventive
    ****Satan said, “dogs do it….why not humans ?”

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  240. multiplemichael

    —————————-THE PROMISED MAYBE
    what is the nearest approach ?
    look down for human footprints
    humans make human footprints
    they often go opposite the past
    stay clear of the past
    little there but poverty and shame
    time for you to take back what was yours
    THINK HOW MANY EYELASHES GOD MAKES IN A DAY

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  241. multiplemichael

    —————–imprisonment in the womb——–
    death laughs at the time-devouring worm
    human experience in demand
    the constant voyeurism
    love offers shade
    domesticated sex

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  242. eatmorewords

    mail order noah
    comes with free nails and instructions
    sold as seen – (28 days to return if not happy with order) –

    Russian brides use the bark from the tree of life to floss their teeth

    – Nikola Tesla disliked fat woman – to much meat, interference with his experiments

    – strange static (a smell like cooking bacon) – distortions on the printouts

    confusion at the laboratory

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  243. eatmorewords

    “I AM NOT DEAD YET BUT I HAVE BEEN HEADING THAT WAY SINCE BIRTH”

    its all a journey
    Jagger and his compass looking for truth north
    always looking for true north but lost in a world of magnets and late running trains

    the english curse

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  244. eatmorewords

    roll call at Leviathan
    – time for cleansing the system
    – “THE LET GO” shown the exit – no reason given – sins committed against the father?
    – stolen cutlery found hidden, secreted
    -INSUBORDIATION in the cafeteria
    – devil talk at the water cooler

    names scratched off lists
    the vanished

    inches under the soil

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  245. multiplemichael

    THE DAY STARTS WITH DIALOGUE
    Leviathan tried to imitate the creativity of God
    spat out knives, forks, and spoons 24/7
    it was a grand old factory
    that employed half of England
    (the better half some say)
    a sign above the exit gate:
    “PROLONGED RESISTING PLEASURE IS EXQUISITE”
    not a single creature could decipher the message
    ==================================
    ==================================
    GUILT INAUGURATED
    stolen cutlery
    autoerotic acts in the latrine stalls
    rhetorical games at lunch
    cut-price romance
    contemplative sodomy

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  246. multiplemichael

    WHEN THEY PLACED NOAH’S FACE ON COINS
    IT WASN’T TO REPRESENT HOPE FOR THE FUTURE
    IT WAS TO REPRESENT GRIEF FOR THE PAST
    ****religious depopulation—a persistent itch

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  247. multiplemichael

    ———————————TERMITES OF TIME
    poets who love to force people to eat things
    that they wouldn’t normally consume
    your constant dream of borrowing the same book
    public transportation and borrowing that book
    humiliating sounds from the rectum
    kicking cheap paperbacks on the path
    old girlfriends like a frozen dinner or a can of soup
    cartoon-surreal-visionary jazz-bone near-untouched
    sniping other writers—that bastard Frost
    WHY WAS THE SOUP LADLE IN THE LATRINE ?

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  248. multiplemichael

    THE INCONVENIENCES OF THE FLESH
    a tight mental allegiance to a morality
    that some poor creature thousands of years ago
    dreamed up around a campfire
    it was always the loss of flesh
    the baby died
    the baby died

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  249. multiplemichael

    the final authority of the white poet
    words not subject to sorrows-losses-sickness-pain
    what validates poetry ?
    continual turning back
    CIRCLING
    little chance of escaping imitative poetry
    countless spots from rubbing off

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  250. multiplemichael

    IN THE MIDST OF THE WRETCHEDNESS OF LIFE
    each day a well-written diary
    salvaging and rendering
    asking what has been lost
    every thought is a kind of translation
    words in themselves are not significant

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  251. multiplemichael

    poetry to distract readers
    foreign languages
    never the mother tongue
    black thoughts from world war two
    mattress squeezed with the worst of taste
    obituary poetry—peculiarities at best
    obituary poetry—no innuendoes

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  252. eatmorewords

    from stolen cutlery the food always tastes better — worth the risk of theft
    the better half of England
    geographical biased some might say –
    the grand old factory amongst the satanic mills on this verdant land
    – a country with many names

    twice used toilet role
    the shame of others knowing

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  253. eatmorewords

    a few dabs of the secret powder
    up all night with visions
    – an attempt to redress the imbalance
    – we all know someone who’s has erased the facts

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  254. multiplemichael

    redress the glossary of taboo thoughts
    the gradient from flaccid to erect
    is ridiculously steep
    moral fiber long gone
    the pillow flat
    nailing the windows shut
    is it necessary or even desirable ?
    a line of salt in front of the door entrance
    discarded sex symbols by the oak tree
    masks from the poisonous jungle
    half-baked vagina lips
    and phallic noses

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  255. multiplemichael

    standing in the shadows of
    RHETORICAL FLIMFLAM
    flimflam is a cousin of flarf
    real orphaned poets
    fake orphaned poets
    an apologist is not a poet
    the ad in the paper:
    “semen for sale
    varying consistency”

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  256. multiplemichael

    the self-schooled poet
    the agony of penetrating insight
    to witness the unspeakable length
    feels like a mandolin
    ===============
    speaking of purification
    artistic purification is my obligation
    clown trousers
    that have outworn their relevance
    ****discredited Jagger jackets—anything Parisian

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  257. multiplemichael

    womb like and hiding
    7000 private detectives
    trying to locate the Civil Rights Movement
    not at the Newport Jazz Festival
    not at the Duke Ellington Beauty Salon
    musicians of the blue notes
    pockets of remorse and melancholy
    Nat Cole talking color restrictions
    Sidney Poitier trying to sell dark glasses
    city glasses—rural glasses
    a suitcase with thighs
    “It talks trash”

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  258. eatmorewords

    it was worthless
    those coins
    Noah’s etched face, right profile
    – his grief from the past sunk like his ark

    rich men in submarines submerged searching for his treasures
    his splinters
    his drowned grief

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  259. eatmorewords

    the termites weakened the structure
    bit by bit
    slow erosion over time
    erasing the past
    erasing the words
    arm has fallen off the statue of the war hero
    you borrowed the book but never returned it (the fine is five figures)

    humiliating sounds from the rectum*

    the sniper on the rooftop

    *bum trumpet

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  260. eatmorewords

    remove the flesh and boil the bones – fashion tips from pampered princesses –
    burn the witches

    do you dream of strong hair?
    do you want your hair to shine?
    strong nails
    white teeth
    DO YOU WANT STRONG LUSCIOUS HAIR??

    abort
    aghast
    aghast
    abort

    another plane crashed
    a sea of suitcases, ringing phones no one will answer

    a last text to God

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  261. eatmorewords

    looking at the world through a lens
    looking at the world from a rooftop
    periscope astronomy
    stars between the gaps in numbers

    Kanye West keeps emailing me
    wanting advice on this
    and that

    move to spam
    MOVE TO SPAM

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  262. multiplemichael

    FREEFORM AND SENSUAL
    more tonal richness
    breadth of emotion
    having the imagination tested
    weighed down with stolen cutlery
    buzzing and growling in the backroom

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  263. multiplemichael

    true north
    desire points
    evil genius poetry
    intelligence switched off
    with spontaneous overflow
    a snatch here a snatch there
    hermaphroditical crotch gloves
    eyes wanting to catch something shown

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  264. eatmorewords

    foreign languages and words with dots above them – I see a small y
    a reversed p –
    adopted child no mother tongue
    World War Two fighter piloted haunted her dreams
    a face in a mask
    part of an attempt at mass extinction
    not mentioned in an obituary
    – distracted by the cost of things in a country where the sales never end

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  265. multiplemichael

    the woman with the rehearsed hair
    was knocking on the window
    “got matches need a smoke”
    would-be poets copied her words
    in neat little yellow journals
    burn, burning, burnt
    SHE became a perpetuation
    her lungs whispering grief
    her woman part being charred
    it was not from fire
    it was from something else

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  266. multiplemichael

    all those people who “loved” things
    standing in a circle in the background
    their keys in their hands ready to transport
    white poets across from Dark Town
    dying unrecognized

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  267. eatmorewords

    steep gradients where the brave breath in the view
    at the the summit
    at the opening
    the sound of the waterfall

    1960s sex symbol is laughably ugly these days – heavy set thighs
    – heavy hair –

    phallic camera lenses catch the filth

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  268. eatmorewords

    “semen for sale – no guarantees given. Will provide origin if required. 36hour delivery”

    £100 a deposits at the sperm bank

    I’ve thrown thousands away
    my curtains are worth more than me dead*

    *when I die
    don’t let them test the curtains

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  269. eatmorewords

    conversely, Parisian clowns in Jagger jackets
    they strut and clap their hands
    strut and thrust like little red roosters
    – purified by custard pies in the face – licked off by backstage parasites

    sometime you have to do bad to do good

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  270. multiplemichael

    REAL POETS TORTURE OTHER POETS
    —————-no reasonable alternative
    each night
    curtains descend to hide the last word of the day
    ****your father, “I shall be obeyed”

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  271. multiplemichael

    to determine how the readers have gone wrong
    ====================================
    what error may be the oddest and most debilitating ?
    too many voices in a small area
    an echo from the church
    direct proportions
    strangers in the bathroom
    critical stares at the worm
    helpful head gloss
    tight-knit underwear
    a finger first

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  272. multiplemichael

    CUSTARD PIES IN THE FACE
    custard pies have nothing to do with jigsaw puzzle pieces
    and yet late at night singing custard pies
    attract missing puzzle pieces
    brittle crust on the face from younger days
    chin hairs and clippings from the morgue
    thoughtless cruelty

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  273. multiplemichael

    folk ballads about custard pies
    milkwhite flesh—milkwhite baby
    the deathbed is occupied
    please go outside
    tell a poet about the roughhewn edges
    a poet with an enlarged understanding
    the more lanterns at night
    the more the understanding

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  274. multiplemichael

    unpublished sounds from the rectum
    sorrow from a dry throat below
    whispers
    moving starkness
    girls walking on the street
    each one a hero
    life without an antidote
    Dark City cheap shoes

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  275. multiplemichael

    —————–the really big question
    HAS YOUR INNOCENCE BEEN RECREATED ?
    your life like freight going night and day
    childhood images weaved into the passing landscape
    narcotic sodomy in a grove of junipers
    hitchhiking holy hoboes without shame
    happy-go-lucky smells at the truck stop
    strange fruits that calm the rage of man

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  276. eatmorewords

    there is no on/off switch for unconscious outpourings –
    overflowing river
    nothing suppressed
    just overflowing rhetoric

    we exist below the watermark

    these words will be here even if they’re not read

    I know they are there
    She knows

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  277. eatmorewords

    Sidney Poitier wasn’t the first black man –
    the jazz men at the festival knew this – the blue notes disappeared amongst the low clouds –
    people were just footnotes in the unread books –
    the queue at the pharmacy
    everyone wants the same drugs
    – hiding behind dark glasses (it’s midday and raining) –

    the message drifted over the short wave radios IF THEY MOVE KILL THEM
    KILL THEM
    IF THEY MOVE

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  278. eatmorewords

    fearless children
    feral in a world where people take photos of food –
    – a memory box of splinters and weathered pictures
    – the his
    & the hers
    – withered and fractures
    broken pottery in the kiln room – they made them feral

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  279. multiplemichael

    I AM NOT THE FIRST PERSON TO PAY
    FOR THINGS THAT NEED BE SAID
    machines that seize upon small talk
    artificial systems that imitate Robert Frost
    little girl poetry and color book unicorns
    brides with on/off switches
    ————-you are left charged with expectations
    the stuff of ordinary life—confused anticipation
    ****a gold star for interior personal conviction

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  280. multiplemichael

    semi-barbaric poetry in a shoebox
    the advantages of education
    constantly new urges
    unhappy thoughts maybe
    pages from a chronicler’s life
    each poem an embryo
    words with the wrong size feet

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  281. eatmorewords

    THEY HAVE FOUND THE BLACK BOX THEY HAVE FOUND THE BLACK BOX – decoding
    decoding – –
    last earthly message
    confused and muddled
    like
    teenage angst poetry
    shoebox memories –
    a final message of words spat out
    unconscious streams –
    TELL MY FAMILY I LOVE THEM

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  282. eatmorewords

    in a dream she pulled her lungs out to avoid the cigarette smoke
    (breasts for pillows)
    no-one can copy words
    but you can copy the order
    – TO BE BLACK IN TODAYS AMERICA
    – burnt her journal
    it was something else, just to watch it all burn
    – tempted to steal someone’s words

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  283. multiplemichael

    OUTWORN—-OUTGROWN FAMILY
    literary materials out of reach
    ======================
    he was shaped to enter the tunnel
    rowdy and uninhibited
    a criminal egg
    created a poet
    to write poetry
    HE was an octopus-baby
    human size and proud
    (SHE was busy with a tide-flow—a feminine tide-flow)

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  284. eatmorewords

    whitewashing everything in a futile attempt to recreate innocence
    – the garden of Eden as metaphor
    – overgrown now,
    weeds climbing, rusting supermarket trolleys, abandoned and aghast
    knee high grass,
    trees that bear no fruit, rotting and rotted,
    a landscape like a war zone
    the rage of man caught in the jet stream of modernity

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  285. eatmorewords

    outgrown…there was never a plan; you know
    blueprints
    scenarios
    the distance between two things
    angles, the plan was…
    the plan never discussed

    never to be outworn
    used and forgotten, best friend when you were 6
    haven’t thought about him in 22 years, like favourite toys stored away, two many homes in a short space of time,

    human size
    and all the things in between

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  286. multiplemichael

    painfully acknowledging the suppression and murder
    of a great human by CANCER
    a middle-aged boy-anarchist
    a cellmate in youth
    through the brown school waters
    through puberty worse than a Roman lion
    beyond identity and dissociation and numerous babies
    the rich father and the hungry mink-like varmints
    the booze bottle and the frisky wife

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  287. multiplemichael

    RAGE FROZEN IN TIME or RAGE FLUID IN MOTION
    simple deciphering—narration with no speed bumps
    dirty ragdolls arranged across the path of communication
    salvaging and rendering—ignored parts with odd hair
    vulva flaps once pink and vibrant
    gray with callous

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  288. multiplemichael

    ——–LOVEMAKING WEAPONS————
    dirty ragdolls tempered in different heats
    inner edges irritated by a persistent rub
    sea-mouth there in the dim light
    feminine and masculine oral butter
    SHE was looking at my pee-hole
    it was universal—just squeeze it

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  289. multiplemichael

    —————————-a family of ragpickers went through your
    underwear drawer and didn’t take anything
    SHE had everything—the priceless treasures
    the gems, the jewels, even your pocket change
    SHE was the accumulation of thousands of years
    ****impossible to count the skeletons in the cloacal area

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  290. multiplemichael

    ————————————–THAT SOUND
    you thought it was a flag on a pole outside
    it was actually the skins of day and night
    tied to a wire fence
    the breeze of reality
    whipping about
    ****it is all about fire and brimstone, baby

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  291. eatmorewords

    the fence always raised questions
    was there to keep someone out or something in?
    – wooden fence, splinters
    electric fence buzzing
    barbed wire across the battlefield
    – I remember the day when the tanks rolled in

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  292. multiplemichael

    TANKS THAT IGNITED THE CONSCIOUSNESS
    settling for neither mush nor surrender
    lesser poets smoked improvisation
    more mature word-wardens assimilated simultaneous occurrences
    displacements of romance with daredevil weapons
    the true expressive power of the penis
    a functional man-horn not a decorative spout
    wavering back and forth—heroic globs of jism

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  293. multiplemichael

    RESULTS IN A SERIES OF GEOMETRICAL CELLS
    responses from one end of a penis to the other
    extending poetry
    leaving something out
    adding something
    jazzing up the tempo
    ————————the narrow road to Adam’s destination
    the soft chubby terrain
    the shadows
    the lower road
    the gate that laughs at any failure
    ———————–outside
    the clop of shod hooves
    the rattling of the wagons
    Good Lord, the lint-pickers are here

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  294. multiplemichael

    POETRY ON MOTOR SCOOTERS
    summer suits
    snaking sex in shaded spaces
    custom-made condoms
    the smell of poop
    Japanese tourists tossing coins
    whispering inside themselves
    “wish I had some of that”

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  295. multiplemichael

    MUHAMMAD ALI NEVER SOLD ANYTHING BY THE INCH
    He has been dismantled and packed away
    moist mud turned dry
    squadrons of pigeons released
    to entertain Japanese tourists

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  296. multiplemichael

    HEARTBREAKING POETRY ABOUT FORBIDDEN LOVE
    a blackening cummerbund of bruises left by the uneducated
    words bouncing about as if in a bad automobile wreck
    lips spitting words never spoken
    “don’t make me read in public”
    ****the beautiful flower dragged in the dirt by lust
    a favorite teammate consumed with ego addiction
    mathematical precision and a quick tongue
    the guys on the bench—muscular male thighs
    “he asked me to rub him off—it wasn’t stiff but it left a quart”

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  297. multiplemichael

    LOOKING FOR A PSYCHOPATH ?
    ask any cabdriver or motel clerk
    hungry for an emotional response ?
    sniff their underarms
    men love to be victimized
    poets love to be victimizers
    —————unsafe conditions in romance
    songs on the radio about unsafe loving conditions
    alternative coffee poured down innocent throats
    sensitivity to rubber dongs
    the itch never goes away
    just the memory

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  298. multiplemichael

    the relationships of fathers and sons
    a sustained hymn of praise
    and then—-punishment
    poetry about the desirability of being in charge
    parental sleuthing—-the home becomes a laboratory
    daily life full of scenarios—imitative behavior
    WHAT SHOULD BE UNPREDICTABLE
    BECOMES PREDICTABLE

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  299. multiplemichael

    scantily dressed girls
    the sound of people pitching pennies
    abandon and self-control on the same street
    internal affairs investigators taking notes
    smokers afraid to cough

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  300. multiplemichael

    I have heard it said that you are afraid to discuss
    early food sharing or the division of subsistence labor
    kin or non-kin, SHE wasn’t in love with you
    you were just a hominid in a family of hominids
    your words of affection were just misplaced currency

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  301. eatmorewords

    ( delays in response
    days of silence )

    afraid to discuss the details
    in depth – the devil in the detail (the clown in the trousers)
    – an agreed relationship of trust, a relationship of command, dominate figure in the shadows
    – food given as currency
    loose change in pool hall pockets
    – internal relationships along kinship lines
    ape begat ape
    man begat man

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  302. eatmorewords

    internal affairs and personal thoughts filtered through a sense of realism
    she told me there was a time and place for spontaneity
    – a black lung exposed in X-rays
    full ashtrays at the interrogation

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  303. multiplemichael

    FULL ASHTRAYS AT THE INTERROGATION
    endless questions about the night at the motel
    wrestling intercourse
    not the Jacob and the angel of God type of wrestling
    a more sportive type of wrestling
    where the weaker man gets the bone

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  304. multiplemichael

    heterosexually acceptable forms
    of homosexual contact
    do not involve the entry
    of one man by the other
    NO KISSING
    horseplay at the pool hall
    with a good deal of latitude
    ****any sport involving an athletic support

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  305. multiplemichael

    the last ripple in your underwear
    has been smoothed away
    mask and script in hand
    “THE SELF SO TAUGHT”
    proportioned passion in the new world
    ****your mother formed your personality…
    school destroyed it

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  306. multiplemichael

    people call your house
    and complain that you’re becoming transparent
    that you and your immediate environment
    resemble a photograph
    your life is a crowded street
    you with your script and mask
    why do you carry tokens ?

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  307. multiplemichael

    people call your house
    and complain that your emotions
    are like notes in some looney-bin jazz tune
    a wild ape plucking strings
    a wild horse tooting a horn
    you are showing way too much edge
    ****A WEAR THIN EUROPEAN ?

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  308. multiplemichael

    —————————-you didn’t mention
    that SHE was constantly oscillating
    between church and the brothel
    the bible in one hand
    lube in the other
    men describe their desire as “interest”
    dispersal requires a sum of money
    dispersal lightens the wallet
    and drains the jism-bag

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  309. multiplemichael

    POETRY CLARIFYING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BACKROOMS
    AT SUNDAY SCHOOL AND STALLS AT THE TRUCK STOP LATRINE
    MEMORIES LACKING WITNESSES
    PHYSICAL EVIDENCE WASHED AWAY
    QUICK SHOWERS AT THE PAY-AS-YOU-GO
    A PERPETRATOR OF POVERTY
    STOLEN SHERLOCK HOLMES SOCKS
    OVERBURDENED UNDERWEAR
    DREAMS ABOUT GUNSHOT RESIDUE
    MODERN ART WITH BLOOD SPLATTERS
    FORENSIC FOREPLAY
    MALES DON’T MIND
    A LITTLE ROUGH

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  310. multiplemichael

    PEOPLE ON THE TELEVISION ALL DAY
    WEARING TWENTY OR THIRTY PURPLE SHIRTS
    EACH ONE SAYING, “I AM A PERSON AND I’M SICK OF THIS”
    ENDLESS NIGHTMARES EVERY INCH OF THE WORLD
    FREAKISH AND PHONY—NOT A SINGLE HONEST FACE

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  311. multiplemichael

    not sure of this encounter
    meeting someone
    face to face
    repetitive and inane
    “evangelist boy”
    praying real-life anguish
    seeking new avenues for rewards
    not old man activity
    SOMETHING
    rapid-fire and rough

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  312. multiplemichael

    AVOID POETRY where you might intrude
    on private conversations
    bruised and beaten—run away
    abused and mistreated—run away
    sleep with an umbrella in your hand
    abandoned cigarettes under your head
    they say, “don’t stay in one place too long”

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  313. multiplemichael

    pushing a shopping cart around late at night
    feeling like a Chihuahua in a sweater
    drugs don’t come cheap
    outside the glitz of Dark Town
    ****little dog wanting dope

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  314. eatmorewords

    cauterized the surroundings parts
    while the others become weathered
    – they knock at my door offering salvation
    – pizza menus hang from a letterbox like a monsters tongue
    – they complaint about the noise at the Curie house, the 2am light shows, how all visitors left with bulges under skin
    boils, lesions
    – hairy ape hitting the jazz scene
    straight jacket raps
    no confusion at the big house

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  315. eatmorewords

    shopping carts found at the bottom of the canal, rusted
    rotten fruit
    – drugs don’t come cheap but I have loads hidden inside –
    the glitz is only glitzy from afar
    up close its all bright lights and blinding reflections
    – little dog with his stomach so close to the ground

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  316. eatmorewords

    keep moving
    keep moving
    a rolling stone gathers
    no moss but dust gathers in the folds of skin – cigarettes sold in singles –
    – umbrellas with a poisoned tip
    a dead spy on foreign soil with 16 different names –

    I saw all the victims hanging under the bridge

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  317. multiplemichael

    ASHTRAY LUNGS———–the sound ?
    or the globs of spit-up ?
    tolerance to ashtray lungs
    martyrs of the smoke
    middleclass coughs—middleclass thoughts
    ammunition to the arsenal
    (excremental metaphors)

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  318. multiplemichael

    robbed of energy rightfully
    atrophy and dry ovaries
    menses absent
    insanity and a wet dog smell
    I was offered employment
    a wage to discuss female masturbators
    genital stimulation was not impossible
    women could easily “ape” the male roles

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  319. multiplemichael

    ———SEXUALLY RIVALED MEN
    your mother sends you a note
    warning you about hereditary neurosis
    linking orgasms—natural and unnatural
    a constant quest for pleasure
    those drugs you hid
    sucked up by tree roots
    they influenced the tree to be effeminate
    birds and squirrels troubled by the curves

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  320. multiplemichael

    tightly stitched crotch narcotics
    gender restrictions at the drugstore
    Freudian x-rays at the airport
    asked about being a doll
    the full brunt without notice
    ??? without gender or beyond gender ???

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  321. multiplemichael

    IN THE OLD PHOTOGRAPHS SHE STILL HAD LEGS
    role-playing sticks or lesbians hungry for young tongues
    a world increasingly closed
    a world with a river of loneliness
    discarded limbs along the bank
    soaking up leftover warmth
    ****haunting sounds of thwarted expectations

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  322. multiplemichael

    the question was——-did they touch each other’s genitals ?
    at least reactive desire
    unspeakable
    —parts—
    phallicized
    **** the internal and external price tags

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  323. eatmorewords

    breathing smoke with breath stinking of decay
    coughing up from rattling lungs
    globules spat out black bloodied tar –
    substitutions, pen in mouth
    – she took his pulse
    vein throbbed
    erect and aroused, tongue in ear
    – middle class angst
    middle class man pays detective to spy on spouse

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  324. multiplemichael

    ——————————I———————-
    —————————–AM——————-
    —————————–ONLY—————
    —————————–SAYING————
    “I WOULD RATHER PAY HER BOYFRIEND TO BABYSIT HER
    THAN HAVE SOME DICK-WEED DETECTIVE
    LOOKING AT MY HONEYPIE”

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  325. multiplemichael

    PLEASURESEEKERS (those with money—those without)
    secret dens—some with keys—others by name alone
    23 songwriters—some with graffiti underpants
    code words to appeal to sodomites
    one branch favors Susan Sontag
    another, Saddam Hussein
    softened imagery
    one drop of dew and it is a baby or two
    lovers and sex agents out the door
    fictional voices exhausted
    garden poetry for evermore

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  326. eatmorewords

    a relative of Freud (or a namesake)
    embroiled in allegations of molestation –
    suspicions of missing girl, no body recovered on a sunny isle –
    just a missing space where someone used to be* – hiding behind a name,
    shadow figure on the fringes – a good guest at dinner parties they said, witty with good
    anecdotes
    – distanced from the jump off point

    *missing like when you cut a face out from a family portrait

    narcotics should be freely available

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  327. eatmorewords

    she still had legs??
    how old was that photo? sepia tones no doubt, faded by time*
    – missing legs
    a scene from Jaws
    – a missing leg, question: do they have to buy a pair of shoes?
    – who buys the other foot?
    a world of limbs and questions

    *I’ve noticed since having kids
    time moves faster
    only yesterday it was 1985

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  328. eatmorewords

    honeypie, she was laying on
    the bed, damp patch
    rising in the corner, jeans crumpled on the floor
    – honeypie, let me inside you
    a finger at a time
    look out the window at the church spire
    – been here before
    so don’t get excited

    her leather suitcase looked like an old dog at the door

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  329. multiplemichael

    CUT OFF THE FACE
    REMOVE THE FACE
    PLACE THE FACE IN A RESTING PLACE
    APPREHENSION ABOUT THIS PRODUCES BOLD POETRY
    NONDIRECTIONAL WORDS— AN UNDISCIPLINED EXTERIOR MARCH
    relatives went to the funeral just to observe the face
    seeing the face without sockets—hypnotic intensity
    the shedding of the face at a pitch near madness

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  330. multiplemichael

    the lady at the coffee counter
    says that SHE can no longer
    call up the young men
    that briefly touched
    her privates
    the chatter slowed down
    eyes watching fleas jump

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  331. multiplemichael

    to write a “MEANINGLESS POEM”
    poetry before a time-locked heart
    poetry before the painful toenails
    high-class suffering has passed us by
    ——free of indelible imprints

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  332. multiplemichael

    dwarf-like legs
    possibly candles for a strange birthday cake
    all subject matter unshackled
    great globes and wide hips
    ———-LOVE. JEALOUSY, TRIUMPH— but no legs
    explicit hominid evolution
    the crack got bigger
    ****heads the size of buffalos

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  333. multiplemichael

    SHE tried to escape through the door of nonsense
    —-OFF came both legs
    soothed by dusty twilight
    in the hospital
    SHE talked about her eggs
    and the males who wanted to play “daddy”
    gaps between squirts
    SHE cut a lemon in half each day
    put a half way up there
    no drawings exist
    a few limericks

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  334. multiplemichael

    PHARMACEUTICALS
    spider pills —pill after pill
    sustained intellectual demands
    short attention spans
    readers hungry for honeymoon details
    chatter about the tent pole
    chatter about the opening
    the little swimmers everywhere
    fresh jism busy with the exhausted
    CECIL B. DeMILLE READY TO SCREAM “CUT”

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  335. multiplemichael

    ex-amphetamine addicts afraid to touch spider pills
    afraid of the huge stepback of the spiderweb
    poetry in an irreverent manner
    paraphrased Frost and Nancy Drew
    hallucinogenic frogs that you squeeze and lick
    romance being a continuous vaudeville show
    romance being self-appointed
    impromptu hand signals
    odd jerks —cringed by the friction
    the police asked for three names:
    (+) Abbie Hoffman
    (+) Jerry Rubin
    (+) David Dellinger

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  336. eatmorewords

    she told me the story of face in a jar – a face, yes
    there was a face in a jar of formaldehyde in university
    used as a door stop – dead eyes in cold sockets –
    tiny hairs in the chin
    – covered in dust

    (the complications of sex and death)

    – she told me about the face
    in a university
    study and probed
    beautiful poetry to be useful after death

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  337. eatmorewords

    no satisfaction with young bucks
    – forget their touch
    boastful diary entries
    private words
    public acts
    – we are all spectators in this flea circus
    spectators connected to machines in expensive trainers
    branded and briefly touched

    no coffee for me
    I’m a tea man

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  338. multiplemichael

    BEFORE THE FACE WAS IN THE JAR
    constantly in the process of normalization
    having learned how to perform onstage
    having learned how to perform in bed
    sex itself was anything but “normal”
    ————————-the one who kisses first
    counter-evidence by the truckload
    detectives aware of the odds against winning
    the real brass tacks of Romeo and Juliet
    to misread the anatomical differences
    approached but never reached
    faked, erased—dispelled
    ****fast forwards past sodomy

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  339. multiplemichael

    MICK JAGGER IN SANSABELT SLACKS AND PUFFED SLEEVES
    his DNA flying through space
    someday he would FATHER some distant planet
    the loveliness of his penis attached to each man
    females blessed with giant pudgy lips
    children wheezing out rock and roll hits
    ****happiness incomplete—life without hard purpose

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  340. multiplemichael

    OBVIOUS SATIRES THAT TRANSFORM
    middle-class people making soup from library books
    CABBAGE WITH INK
    religious material goes for a discount
    pampered poets go for road maps and magazines
    ****masturbatory literature is too artificial
    ****street-people hand-wringing porn for lunch
    ***three-day-old porn soup is like duck poop

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  341. multiplemichael

    HIS THING POINTS TOWARD A POSSIBLE REINTERPRETATION
    the smell of fish is something less seasonal
    her balloon swollen with copper stains
    hair on the bung like a wild boar
    healed rips and tears
    the folds—the flaps
    no sleep lube

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  342. multiplemichael

    ———————-spider pills
    take a handful and put on the radio
    geological lips like truck tires
    fuzzy kisses baby—some s-u-g-a-r
    standing back there behind her
    thorny questions went unanswered
    it wouldn’t go in—a regrettable reality
    no amount of salve or butter
    just peeling potatoes with that foreskin
    ****Tina Turner singing some damn song

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  343. multiplemichael

    NEVER SHOCKED AT THE SMELL OF THE OBVIOUS
    former generations busy in the bathroom
    tiny boobs on the sheep
    pretend cedars on a hill
    bags of bones doing watercolors
    “wanna buy a pastoral picture ?”
    no suffocating city colors
    the seeds of sin are everywhere
    blame the GERMINATOR

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  344. multiplemichael

    a long and healthy life
    death knocks on the door
    you are confused by his polite clothing
    you’ve memorized all that crap
    HORSECOLLAR RELIGION
    struggling all those years
    —Johnny Academic
    a lemon-scented student
    fraudulent Neil Simon
    fraudulent Robert Frost
    each wake moment
    like your mother
    pulling
    your father
    out

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  345. multiplemichael

    SHE drove the car off the road
    into a schoolyard
    harming the future of 17 children
    just that morning
    someone asked her
    if SHE was a devotee
    of Sylvia Plath
    the smile seemed genuinely polite
    but the question was left-field
    it was public knowledge
    that SHE was the embossed
    gold lettering of Robert Frost

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  346. multiplemichael

    your first lesson in poetry writing
    was an unfolding of your personality
    the instructor in an adult diaper
    Willie Nelson of Linguistics
    too relax and the knot goes away
    calculated accidents
    the smell of overweight
    moist emotional instability
    at the tightest seams

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  347. multiplemichael

    bodybuilding with one hand
    writing poetry with the other
    or driving a car off the road
    ———–what color was the car ?
    ———–what color were the children ?
    fame and fortune equals openings and closures
    “SHE said that it was small but attentive”
    ———-“ATTENTIVE”
    forget about it—the black depression
    disheartening competition
    the world is equally embarrassing
    disinterested curiosity at what expense ?
    all eyes on the dongs—giggle lightly
    ****learned to love and envy

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  348. eatmorewords

    I write reams of meaningless poetry – all before I’ve had breakfast
    – a handed out to those in the meat queue
    – eatmorewords I tell them
    – but I think who outs the meaning into this?

    I walk around the town and look at buildings, cars, traffic lights
    the plane in the sky
    the chewing gum on the floor

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  349. eatmorewords

    legs sold at the second hand shop
    – one careless owner, a verruca
    chipped nail
    – jealous of bipedal colleagues who share birthdays with famous dead folk –

    WHY SHOULD HE HAVE TWO OF WHAT I AINT GOT ONE OF?

    legless but closer to the ground

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  350. eatmorewords

    lemon contraception spiced up a dull affair
    – eggs are eggs
    the ones they teach you to suck

    in the play “daddy” was played by a 7ft Chinese man – a strange sight
    the audience gasped
    gasped

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  351. eatmorewords

    placebo pills
    induced boredom
    – the children eagerly drew pictures of their house and handed it to their dad who found it hard to hide his disgust at their insipid artistically attempts – nothing was to scale,
    the shadows all wrong, the windows were wonky – he reluctantly put them in the fridge, held in place with magnets stolen from 17 theme parks –

    his little swimmers produced those that stood before him

    CUT
    CUT

    FIN

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  352. eatmorewords

    Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys – apple pie detectives
    never within a 100 miles of spider pills, Nazi amphetamines –
    – vaudeville touching, Nancy Drew and aroused Hardy Boys – a jerk here
    hand signals at the corner of dark town

    IM JUST WAITING FOR MY MAN

    (the police men rearranged the names : Abbie Rublin, Jerry Dellinger, David Hoffman : names I don’t know)

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  353. eatmorewords

    Jagger DNA fired into the firmament to be discovered a 1000 years from now
    Jagger DNA frozen in a solo
    – Jagger dressing like a golfer strutting across the fairways
    HOLE IN ONE
    ONE IN THE HOLE
    – a chorus he was to scared to sing

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  354. eatmorewords

    duck poop porn soup garbage ink cabbage breasts religious dogma taken for a walk
    magazines sought for their staples – melted down & turned into bulletts – street people spit used as satisfying balm for blistered palms – signs that read I DIDNT CHOOSE THIS LIFE
    OUT OF WORK JAZZ MAN LOOKING FOR MAPS

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  355. eatmorewords

    what colour was the road?
    like old video tape passing under you – flash of yellow
    like the sun
    yolk of the egg
    – entering darkness to avoid the embarrassing caress
    I MEANT BUSINESS

    but I lost my way when the lights went out in darktown

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  356. multiplemichael

    MEANINGLESS POETRY—-what is the Golden Rule ?
    every poem generates its own aesthetic theories
    it would be impossible to write meaningless poetry
    7000 baby steps past Allen Ginsberg and telephone books
    JETTISONED POETRY
    sleeping with a practicing poet
    hiding manila envelopes with special words
    poetic mutters in your sleep
    brown spots on the sheet

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  357. multiplemichael

    “The Norton Anthology of Duck Poop Poetry”
    the pain passing the sharp words
    relatives who void simple-minded prose
    two fingers short of illegitimate
    —-antipoetry for intellectuals——
    instead of a turkey or chicken
    busy choking off the poets
    wearing bedroom slippers
    grammatical errors
    on the hands
    a full load
    baby legs and baby arms
    submerged souls

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  358. multiplemichael

    WHO TORE OFF THE FLIMSY PANTIES ?
    one must safeguard the feminine parts
    ———-was that Robert Frost nailed to the front of that church ?
    perhaps he was too white to live so close to Dark Town
    every day he would write a poem contrary to the evidence
    his white clergy flag was bitter and stained
    overwritten—calling 911 without an answer
    the lady at the front desk said
    “you do me—I’ll do you”
    her eggs were ripe and on display
    any squeeze of expression
    could set off a new life
    FLASHBULBS
    a baby or cancer
    birth or burial

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  359. eatmorewords

    bundled all the poetry together and packed it in a box –
    parachuted from a jet plane
    – a million words scattered to the world below –
    tip toe through each line
    picnic on the gravestone of a dead author –
    ejaculate words on to blank pages – telephone books are relics, fuel for the fire

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  360. multiplemichael

    first-person pronouns ejaculated on blank paper
    boisterous brags about the volume
    future famous people swimming about
    a thousand common folk
    not even in the phone book
    self-indulgent whining on the school bus
    ill equipped to handle genius
    or to separate
    mixed metaphors from forced similes
    photographs of your older sister
    in a manila envelope
    adult imagination
    flashing lights and loud music
    naked—three days without a shower

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  361. multiplemichael

    say what you want
    a 7ft Chinese man
    must have a hell of a dong
    distractions may lessen the overall
    comfortless conclusions ?
    the butt becomes a glass-bottom boat
    spectators
    endless spectators
    people with “butt-o-scopes”
    watching the logs drop

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  362. multiplemichael

    —–one thing for sure—NO jitterbugging on the honeymoon——-
    sodomy and the simple pleasures in life
    music and dancing and spider pills
    no sanctuary in Dark Town
    for people day-glow white
    wailing sirens at the strip club motel
    a dismayed broad with a dead husband
    was it the bourbon or the .38 ?
    cigarette after cigarette—slumped over with the liver
    it seems very difficult to resist the pull of the past

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  363. multiplemichael

    ———————at best the honeymoon was tomboyish———
    —obsessive eyes——————–voyeuristic in nature
    private detectives with an appetite for halter-tops
    short shorts and landing strips
    out of school and aging
    IDs from relatives
    homemade
    stolen

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  364. multiplemichael

    the wedding was filmed live
    but there was a voice-over
    Johnny Boy accompanying the song on guitar
    Jukebox Poet with a plug one can pull
    27 goodbye notes on the wedding bed
    white shoes stolen

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  365. multiplemichael

    the telephone rang all night
    “was the guitar acoustic ?”
    a large high-strung egg sitting on a ledge
    possibly Johnny’s brother
    open for a “hook-up”
    the wife and daughter tied up
    ever-escalating
    sweet revenge—that terrible fall
    patently offensive
    ****Johnny Boy strumming his guitar
    while brother in pieces
    cooking under the high-noon sun

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  366. multiplemichael

    the lights went out in Dark Town
    sadomasochistic piano performances
    the voice-over continued from the wedding
    spider pills with a touch of the homoerotic
    “not just in prison but in prison for life”

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  367. eatmorewords

    banging the key black black white black – the piano isn’t the most portable of instruments –
    – fingering the ivories
    – dead elephants of the Savannah

    – smuggling spider pills internally

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  368. eatmorewords

    hotel room with no keys
    – taped off like the scene of a crime
    – the body on the bed the outline on sheets

    wiped his arse on a replica of the Turin Shroud – tear stains the polygraph

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  369. eatmorewords

    five points like the pentagram –
    in the middle of a mystery
    – the smell of fish hang over the town – flapping fish out of water
    trying to get air inside the lungs
    stunned and ready for the pot

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  370. multiplemichael

    POET TURNED ARTIST
    hired to paint shadows for the blind
    hired to paint shadows for white people
    hired to paint shadows around a white piano
    women wear white evening gowns and sip white wine
    they chat about musical numbers and earthquakes
    their husbands are involved in bootlegging spider pills
    impromptu cavity searches are a source of humor
    the good stuff often has a certain smell

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  371. multiplemichael

    —————-MARRIAGE————–
    and then a catastrophic series of events
    grooms overseen by proprietors
    the singing and accompanying piano
    stop after the wedding
    no hope for recouping the past
    smiles and applauds in the bedroom
    long gone

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  372. multiplemichael

    FIVE POINTS-FIVE ENTERTAINERS – “THE FIVE FINGERS”
    ( any real poet would automatically think about the smell of Tom Waits )
    people on stage know that spider pills often produce a gutsy performance
    “Baby, we’re gonna play with the mousetrap tonight”

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  373. multiplemichael

    the poet apologizes for not knowing the words
    dollar signs for Jesus or some nonsense
    the bedroom of the young Johnny Boy
    nightclub/cocktail lounge/bowling alley
    stacks of daydreams on the bookcase
    fingering the keys of a young piano
    endless cigarette imagery
    intrigue and danger
    and detectives

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  374. multiplemichael

    I remember Johnny Boy once said,
    “shut your eyes and I’ll remove the staples”
    whiskey-throated words on pages freed
    to haunt the evenings surrounding Dark Town

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  375. multiplemichael

    the two hands that came together
    to form the wings of the butterfly
    —————————————–
    gallons of blood seeped through
    no matter the gauze
    no matter the amount of pressure applied
    the Mother Knot stops by to observe
    looking down on the factory class
    SHE carries a friendship flag
    yet eats her pork raw

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  376. eatmorewords

    the dead future of children
    torn away from them by those closer to death – they have torn this country apart –
    the river has been diverted off its course
    people to afraid to announce their allegiance
    devotee behind closed door
    the future for the children is dead white noise
    they are genuinely polite but they carry a knife

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  377. eatmorewords

    a big head wobbling
    tiny baby limbs out of proportion – the logical poet who assesses the situation vs the automatic writer in a dark room with just what’s inside –
    illegitimate words with no father
    two fingers deep
    chicken bone choked
    stuck and chocking

    the poet computer wasn’t programmed for this

    it couldn’t recognise thread that past the teeth and ventured deep inside until it was coiled and resting

    WHAT WERE YOU EXPECTING TO HAPPEN?

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  378. eatmorewords

    ever escalating until now, picture the scene:
    a pale terrified man seeing horror unfold –

    an acoustic guitar with no strings is just wood, like the ark
    – the egg on the edge
    an army armed and ready

    cooking eggs on the hood of your car
    under fire from the sun
    – any closer and we would burn

    your family were plotting to rewrite your history

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  379. multiplemichael

    —————THE TRUMPETER HAS ENTERED THE ROOM
    a kind of arrogance—a sort of opening the way
    the atmosphere changed
    young birds grew very silent
    mothers adopted a new demeanor
    the TRUMPETER was no prizefighter
    yet, very little intimidation
    in a room
    full of guns
    and muscles

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  380. multiplemichael

    ——-YOU ARE SO CORRECT
    my family would love to rewrite my history
    to erase all my trips to Dark Town
    to hear Ted Curson blow his horn
    seersucker drugs and seersucker women
    invincible on a large cloud
    forgiving the deformities of others

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  381. multiplemichael

    a kind of sadness that wouldn’t leave
    melancholy beyond measure
    terrible anecdotes
    butts of jokes
    poor education
    bad taste
    not a single number safe
    small ones in shame
    the larger ones the knife
    smudged and dirty and scrounging
    Americana

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  382. multiplemichael

    TWO HEADS ON A PILLOW POETRY
    the campfire burns low and nobody else is around
    dingdong goes forward and backward
    poetic plasticity
    nothing store bought
    spider pills from a truck stop
    heroin and meth and gossip
    teetering and tottering
    hard-earned happiness
    each day under a microscope
    you enjoy the detectives
    an audience
    listeners

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  383. eatmorewords

    voice over by famous Hollywood actor
    $200,000 a sentence – easy money to be made –
    three fingered guitarist & the jukebox poet on a world tour playing clam bakes, weddings and school reunions –
    white shoes with no grips

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  384. multiplemichael

    no idea why SHE thought the marriage bed was a gladiatorial arena
    SHE would blow that insane horn and the neighbors would complain
    wild circus sex was fun but there was also a crippling side to it
    I often thought of my relatives who lived by the Bible
    routine reproduction without velocity or variety

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  385. eatmorewords

    rent-a-grooms available in the foyer, all come with references and scars
    – please make sure they are returned iron and pressed –
    bargains to be had at the bottom of the bin –
    – marriage is a contract where most never see the small print*

    *grooms in glasses with solicitors at their side

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  386. eatmorewords

    the smell of Waits, bourbon and grease, the sound of piano and gravel,
    fried eggs and links – washing down spider pills with rain water
    – the mousetrap was baited
    baited
    a trap

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  387. multiplemichael

    they say that he had sex with everyone in the neighborhood
    even the family pooch but I thought that was a low blow
    almost as if others wanted his life to be a theatrical release
    they wanted it to come out on DVD
    so they could watch it over and over
    pause it on the shower scenes
    that odd wig he wore
    he called it his little Sharon Tate Polanski

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  388. multiplemichael

    a parade of lonely women outside your front entrance
    ——–YOU being the king of the local Pen Pal Service
    you manipulate—you are manipulating—you straddle the line
    your melodramatic dong in seedy motel rooms
    immediate praise yes—continued praise yes
    WORDPRESS has its mix of amateurs and pros
    the underbelly of the art world
    where artists and photographers and authors and poets
    say “dammit” every 97 seconds

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  389. multiplemichael

    gorilla poets upset with the chimpanzees
    leaving the bathroom in a fright
    gender free but you can’t get it in the bowl
    the people next door in metallic suits
    jumbled letters in the front yard
    wrappers from spider pills
    advanced pleasure pills
    unforgettable

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  390. multiplemichael

    ————————-HEAVY HAND POETRY
    pretentious dialogue
    post-holocaust phony hair
    office assistants in soiled tunics
    surrounded by surgical and financial details
    readers wanting deeper meaning
    wanting the alcoholic side of inhibitions
    ugly taboo secrets—stuff barely suppressed
    A-grade poets with lubricated mental tongues
    ———————————————————–

    off came that ball sac brassiere
    Marcello Mastroianna greased up
    aquarium-like lights
    a private door
    possibly uncomplicated
    wailing cats
    and refresher courses

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  391. eatmorewords

    sex with the pet pooch?
    behind closed doors anything can happen
    in front of a computer screen anything can happen
    – he just paused and rewind the boys that turned him on – a continual loop of not going in
    and coming out
    on a loop
    ad nauesm

    He removed a pube from his toothbrush

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  392. eatmorewords

    James Bond
    international rapist with a car that kill
    a car that drives underwater
    – Kung fu chopping adversaries into submission on spaceships that swallow rockets

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  393. eatmorewords

    days spend going up and down in lifts surrounded by business men on phones
    talk of data cleansing
    ring fencing this and that
    I’m a non-smoker with cigarettes in his pockets – a suit held together with rivets –
    business men with bald heads in lifts

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  394. multiplemichael

    a dead-on impersonation of a backwoods poet
    fringe vest and peace sign buttons
    thoughts wrapped in ambiguity
    bongo drums
    ———————
    intense diet pills from 1970
    a sister with a garage full of them
    a skinny woman with really large teeth
    once—unable to find Tennessee on a map
    SHE credited her Geography teacher as being Norman Bates

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  395. eatmorewords

    coffee house poets who don’t drink coffee – it’s all show
    effect
    – poet pissed brown –
    remember when you told me there was a little man you carried around in your pocket?
    – he would tell you things to write
    that challenged taboos
    – that little man
    haven’t heard of him for a while

    – the wailing cat was singing the blues

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  396. eatmorewords

    diet pills taken until you a simply disappeared
    vanished leaving just a dirty pair of trainers
    – one minute there
    the next minute gone – diet pills and spider pills take to many and you rattle like a maraca –
    the 1970s were beige

    large teeth lady and the garage band

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  397. multiplemichael

    –THE QUESTION IS—————–
    who stole the lock from the outhouse door ?
    poetry dealing with the exploitation of downtrodden American women
    possibly safe inside church but not coming or going
    the pinch of want was a mighty strong fiend

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  398. multiplemichael

    you speak of riding elevators
    and observing the tops of heads
    but what about tuberculosis ?
    inhuman working conditions ?
    hookworm in the latrine ?
    malnutrition around the tea counter ?
    funeral after funeral
    malingering emotions
    no more wet—very little slide
    conjugal rights between sticks

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  399. eatmorewords

    safe inside the church. Sanctuary from the homeless, computers that talk,
    advertising, the prying eyes of detectives (she knew they were there but could never prove it) –
    – a pinch of salt from the salt pig
    – no need for keys at this door
    the American ladies came over the hills like the Mongol hordes

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  400. eatmorewords

    the spider pills made the hookworms shine – we observed this from a distance –
    post war children in shorts playing in bombed out skeletons – TB lungs
    black and inhuman
    – the conditions in here are questionable at best –
    – ration book malnutrition I CAN SEE XYLOPHONE RIBS –

    (what happened to the friend you had in 5th grade? what happened to Michael, version 1 ?)

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  401. eatmorewords

    butt of jokes / jokes about butts
    taste and context
    rambling anecdotes
    a single mother
    dirty plates on the drip tray
    cafeteria grease, smudged window
    talking in numbers like a computer
    poor education and access to guns
    – tramp in a wig
    the free world at ransom

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  402. eatmorewords

    high intensity poetry
    line after line
    the sweat of the poetry class
    high intensity
    JUST DO IT
    self motivation on the wane
    – no prizefighter
    no Nobel laureate
    – writing cramps / cold turkey cramps – radiator sweats
    high intensity
    effort
    with no intimidation

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  403. multiplemichael

    BORED IN CHURCH
    I tell people that I am not a priest
    creative components seem to say otherwise
    learning to act your part
    a puppet of oneself
    a poster of oneself blown up
    downright electrifying
    ****crazy words from the head—a mouth full of firecrackers

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  404. eatmorewords

    bored in church &
    taking money from the donation box –
    surrounded by wood and stained glass –
    the Braille bible is 11ft thick –
    hipster Jesus with his beard, organic sandals,
    the man in black
    at the front
    rambles on with a well worn
    monotone narrative
    the components are all there but
    in different orders – no instruction manual
    OUT OF ORDER signs on everything
    – OUT OF ORDER
    OUTOF
    ORDER

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  405. multiplemichael

    THE APPALACHIAN CHURCH OF ORDER
    crimson lipstick–platinum hair–a smile and a wink
    a stricter ORDER of discipline
    very little need for meaningful communication
    ———————tribalism
    we share the same daddy but not the same home
    unsympathetic elders lead the daughters to the backroom
    participatory collaboration—the fountainheads flowing

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  406. multiplemichael

    when I looked at your out of order
    I saw “Our Mother of Perpetual Help”
    scientists up late at night trying to decide
    what we learn from images
    and what we understand from words
    reality replaced by alphabetic letters
    ****Adam and Eve had a bad habit of characterizing things

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  407. multiplemichael

    vows of poverty and chastity and obedience
    peeping in the windows at ordinary folk
    walking by store fronts with their displays
    hearing words on the street
    loud music from passing cars
    being thankful for not having to clean up after a dog
    being thankful for not having to endure children
    being thankful for privacy and an empty bed
    being thankful for loving God and being loved back

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  408. eatmorewords

    if they said they were giving free hookworms away
    I know who’d be at the front of the queue*
    – pockets full of spider pills coming through customs, crazy sweats
    plunging necklines seen from space

    *i can’t mention no names

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  409. multiplemichael

    BUDDING FEMALE POETS
    plunging necklines seen from the top of Trump Towers
    dictating to a room full of promising young women writers
    dozens of apples all different sizes
    timid apples—distinguished apples
    such testiness on the subject
    commentators from the caves of wildmen
    men who are not afraid to coddle themselves

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  410. multiplemichael

    MEN WHO ARE NOT AFRAID TO CODDLE THEMSELVES
    when a friend reaches a hand over (MATE-BATE)
    a breath of friendship strong
    blown out
    molten smithereens
    a daydream becomes a stream
    ——-poetry in the Nuclear Age
    codewords for fear
    a little lemon juice in the crack
    before making merry
    SHE asked, “It’s not red—is it ?”

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  411. multiplemichael

    the gumption to reach over and give a yank
    politically incorrect
    what can and cannot be done
    to keep literacy alive
    TO KEEP LITERACY ALIVE
    break through the indifference
    conglomerates with all their dongs
    tied together
    one seed will reach out into the world
    that seed will be independent
    exultation and enthusiasm and other queer feelings

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  412. multiplemichael

    some people can see and some people cannot see
    the obsessive handling of the penis
    take a number and be a recipient
    ——————————————
    forced to walk past a viewing portal
    man visitors and women visitors
    naked face to face
    forced to rub against
    attributes

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  413. multiplemichael

    spider pills and an anxious anus
    strong flashlights in the waiting room
    penetrate racial barriers
    white women shine bright
    hinged and unhinged privates
    regulated borders
    containment

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  414. multiplemichael

    —when we feel ourselves being looked at
    rings of flesh penetrable
    anatomical sexuality
    slow self-exposure
    that horrifying gash
    external wound
    internal wound
    ****predatory gaze

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  415. multiplemichael

    HER AGGRESSIVE LOSS OF ATTRACTIVENESS
    that crazy postchemo wig SHE stole at the thrift store
    poetry from a sagging face
    words about biopsies
    and intrusions
    ————————
    ————————
    trying to go the distance
    isolation
    and dependence on the self

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  416. multiplemichael

    helplessly attached to tubes
    ———-therapies———-
    the medicalization of the modern poet
    individual identity constantly under attack
    black-blood holes up and down both arms
    a bruised and swollen anus
    gendered as a female
    out of service

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  417. multiplemichael

    drive off the road at 90mph
    experience the effects of tourism
    and postmodern technology
    stereotypical landscapes
    become blurred behinds
    on blue-butt apes
    upside down five times
    never spilled a drop
    the contour of the automobile
    could be restored
    poetry about metal and flesh
    being envelopes
    overloaded WordPress
    Hustler magazine interrogated poets
    about the sex-gender implications
    of metal and skin
    the article had color photos
    of crushed metal
    and a bright pink hymen
    of a future bride

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  418. eatmorewords

    Our Mother of Perpetual Help and Our Father of Perpetual Misery
    – a relationship of command – sweet wrappers left in the collection tray
    – a picture speaks a 1,000 words but to the blind they’re mute –
    in a world where people try and reclaim words
    – in a world where groups want possession of words
    the Forum for the Ownership of Nouns seeks new members

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  419. eatmorewords

    poetry in an age of machines
    machines in an age at the edge
    – in a town made of mirrors
    words in a town of dead presidents
    SNIPER ON THE ROOF
    SNIPER ON THE ROOF
    – radio cackles airwaves traffic
    people move like ants
    she wasn’t there
    she was there
    I saw her in a daydream stepping gracefully over a puddle of red – her ear to the ground
    the approaching train
    – no time to make merry there are bodies to move

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  420. eatmorewords

    tubes connected but there is a blockage, there is tension
    the modern poet isn’t bulletproof and the detectives carry suspicions – gender checks at toilet doors
    – all our bones are the same colour – the drunk doctor administered leeches
    blood suckers
    sucking the blood
    infected

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  421. eatmorewords

    when we feel ourselves being looked at and watched
    we will assume another ‘guise
    we will change out gait
    our brand of cigarette
    comb your hair to the left
    – a predatory gaze of the vulture
    the predatory gaze of this culture
    the slow self exposure
    inch by slow inch

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  422. multiplemichael

    OWNERSHIP OF THE NOUNS
    Noah was well endowed
    but the local sisters
    claimed that he was symbolically castrated
    black or white—no one knows
    he suffered from “otherness”
    I call it multiplicity

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  423. multiplemichael

    POETRY FROM A MACHINE STUFFED WITH WHITE MASCULINITY
    ————no feminizing connotations
    MASCULINITY split from a log like Lincoln strong
    gangster love daddy
    biological gangster love daddy
    not that homosexualized masculinity

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  424. multiplemichael

    GENDER CHECKS AT THE TOILET DOOR
    eroticized violence with the eyes
    proper and improper
    the short and the long of it
    Robert Frost went to the woods
    gender performance—always that anxiety
    about what word best suits the color of the seasons
    to “authenticate” fall and spring
    suffocated by information
    others know not

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  425. eatmorewords

    the sparks from aggressive rubbing
    caveman friction
    no smoke without fire
    the heat triangle
    the soft heat of the triangle
    soft &
    below the waistline

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  426. eatmorewords

    high school romance with her name written in the margins of a history book – a title
    “the pragmatism of nazism” –
    – clown circus custard pie faces
    – forceable ejected from all the clubs you’ve ever joined
    DO YOU HAVE A JOB?
    DO YOU LIVW IN YOUR MUMS BASEMENT?

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  427. multiplemichael

    twisted and knotted articles of clothing
    first-person accounts of an anxious anus
    the bride placed ads for a honeymoon stand-in
    money can seduce people—the question being “HOW MUCH”
    questions about privileging certain insertions
    and derogating others
    on the basis of their interpretively
    determined cultural value

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  428. multiplemichael

    BUSY ALL DAY ERASING THE BODY FROM THE FUTURE BRIDE
    a long pleasurable gaze at the bright pink hymen
    proof positive from the expensive section
    “intermediary” catalog of vaginal canals
    sandwiched between lips
    years of smiles

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  429. multiplemichael

    marriage may not be fixable
    marriage may be unfixable
    going off the side of the road at 90mph
    the velvety tones of Nat King Cole
    no beginning or ending
    only middles

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  430. eatmorewords

    the sleek curves of cars have become more feminine over time
    – masturbatory fantasy for modern man –
    running hand along smooth metal , aroused regardless of colour
    headlights /
    breasts – secrets in the glove compartment –
    nothing can be truly broken
    it can all be fixed,
    dents smashed out
    – 90mph
    the trajectory of the impact
    crack of glass
    convergence machine and man
    man and woman –
    future bride
    fingers in the ignition

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  431. multiplemichael

    babblings of baby-talk
    for 2 dollars more
    one can smell the tail feathers
    of words that are sense-informing
    ——————–
    once words contain no sense-information
    they become code and less reliable
    museums become cluttered with code
    dead poets and artists no longer convey code

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  432. multiplemichael

    a clock that does not divulge its time
    a clock full of echoes and voices
    your name written
    on the front of a frost-covered window
    poetry by finger marks
    readers fascinated with your digits
    Johnny Boy—got your hand in a womb ?
    fetus in a pocket ?
    similarity between different signifiers
    primitive potential for the position of
    FRANKENSTEIN

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  433. multiplemichael

    ENTANGLED IN A WEB OF LANGUAGE
    do you pay the detectives to spy for information ?
    or are they ghost-writers ?
    a reality fractured and patched together
    the most important discrepancy
    WHAT IT IS—WHAT IT THINKS ITSELF TO BE

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  434. eatmorewords

    otherness, a kink in the road,
    a river diverted from its true course, the philosophy of the PATH OF LEAST RESISTANCE
    – the department of plot twists ceased to exist
    – how many personalities is to many?

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  435. multiplemichael

    too many personalities in the kitchen :
    ————make a ‘tasty’ soup
    —una zuppa gustosa—
    too many personalities in the bedroom
    ————makes for some interesting poetry
    —nonsensical violence

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  436. multiplemichael

    ——-REMEMBER: in a state of insanity, grammatical sense must be made
    (otherwise, the kitchen staff will serve you poor quality food)
    (otherwise, your romance life will be like a petting zoo at a cheap fair)

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  437. eatmorewords

    gender is a blurred line these days
    – have wang but not a man
    – a different binary
    a dial code
    – anxiety of what door to use
    anxiety about where you can put it
    – the colour of the suit a secret sign
    – I don’t know these days

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  438. eatmorewords

    a cheap petting zoo
    the stench of wet dogs
    – kleptomaniac kitchen staff with cutlery stuffed in pockets, sliced ham in their socks,
    dirty finger nails in the soup
    – no time for romance in the scullery

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  439. multiplemichael

    in high school the petting zoo consisted of hundreds of PYGMY GOATS
    huge Hollywood breasts with extremely small goats attached to them
    no one knew and no one cared who the fathers were
    everyone guessed that it was the guys who played sports
    guys who had easy access to carrot flakes and sugar cubes

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  440. multiplemichael

    words only function by virtue of their differences from other words
    —————————————————————————————-
    easy access to carrot flakes and sugar cubes
    the coach in the locker room
    tried hard
    to approximate language

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  441. multiplemichael

    outside in the street
    words are blown into sequences
    they challenge readers
    (circus giantess nearly nude in London)
    life-size people find themselves scattered and misplaced
    praying for a compromise between the old and the new

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  442. multiplemichael

    ———-MAKE THE BIG ESCAPE—–
    met by a host of angels
    greeted with jubilation
    a choir of virgins
    Mother Mary
    (very few keep their promises)
    my money is on the Holy Mother
    (very few face problems head-on)
    my money is on the Holy Mother
    ——————————————-
    ——————————————-
    impending death driving a sports car
    taking curves too fast

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  443. multiplemichael

    anonymous, faceless figures live in your mother’s basement
    juxtaposing the physical effects of being ancient
    deliberately drawing attention to wilting hair
    namesakes in the cemetery
    the new baby dead
    on the side of the highway
    the corpse, a lingering physical marker
    forfeiture of personhood
    “the little beggar”

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  444. multiplemichael

    the priest said that he cared not for that serving of love
    his lips proud on the rim of ejaculatory kissing
    many a man has shoveled dirt on his feet
    the parish cemetery a regular motel

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  445. multiplemichael

    COMMERCIAL ENTERTAINMENTS
    the habitual expectations of Johnny Boy
    ladies and gentlemen—we interrupt the plot
    the inmates in the home
    regardless of size
    have decided to cash
    in their James Bond gift certificates
    and purchase tight riding britches
    (lion-tamer poseurs)
    essentially innocents
    having never felt the sting of violence
    chills, thrills, gunshots, rapid gunfire

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  446. multiplemichael

    issues of evidence and responsibility
    wiping out recollections of committing crimes
    the razzle-dazzle of jazz
    the camera turns around
    to a living room of innocent bystanders
    a sympathetic mother and children
    “we didn’t know”
    having lived life as a form of performance art
    the antics of FATHER was just entertainment

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  447. eatmorewords

    no sense of information as it all merges into one doublespeak for the baby boomers –
    – she face swapped herself with a hillbilly priest
    she swiped left on grinder
    – the secret language of a bandana hanging from a back pocket
    the secret signs of how you wear your jeans
    – your ear pierced in the wrong ear –
    the death of a poet
    lost for words

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  448. multiplemichael

    ——————————————————LOST FOR WORDS
    not a single poet has been exonerated in the last 20 years
    Obama letting all the black inmates go free
    “FUTURE SCREENWRITERS”
    SOME PEOPLE EAT CHEESE ON CRACKERS
    OTHER PEOPLE TRY TO ELUDE THE LAW
    what weapon best wipes out recollections ?

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  449. eatmorewords

    people eluding the law that they never signed up for –
    – aren’t all poets screenwriters?
    – don’t we all write our own films?
    – words are weapons and we’re fully armed – ROBOCOP with Emily paragraphs –
    things get lost in translation
    things fall out of the suitcase –

    recollections clouded by twisted interpretations –
    heavy artillery with small feets

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  450. eatmorewords

    all entertainment as an audience – all things people want are there
    an open entrance
    no door policy –
    what’s that they’re saying?
    a camel and a needle with an eye?
    vibrated
    incorrectly
    – misheard sounds –
    a cross between something you remember from the past and something you want from the future –
    – i dodged death in the year 2036 where lasers replaced bullets

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  451. eatmorewords

    a priest ordained online
    validated by 45 multiple choice questions –
    a small fee requested and tomorrow is yours the small print enthusiasts advised

    – I’m standing in her footprints –

    – do you remember when the news stopped overnight?
    when you woke up to something new?
    when you took a picture and you couldn’t add a filter? –

    your first serving of love tasted of nicotine and chewing gum

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  452. multiplemichael

    old women with crooked fingers
    tell you to practice your reductions
    and omissions
    grow strong
    so you can get away
    with observing so little
    you need not see every brick in a wall
    living from memory—one poem at a time

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  453. multiplemichael

    the plane lands in a large swamp
    poisonous snakes and alligators
    better stay on the path
    hurry inside
    bug bites carry a heavy residual
    when the plane lands
    might be difficult to discern
    a snake or alligator
    in the undergrowth
    blood hungry insects
    mangrove trees
    the lack of real oxygen
    “is it always this uncomfortable ?”

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  454. multiplemichael

    poets trying to blend with dead leaves and twigs
    I think her thing looked like an unshelled snail
    I showed HER to Robert Frost but he was blind
    he touched the slot and cried real tears
    he said, “what kind of monster was God ?”

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  455. multiplemichael

    a description like SENSITIVE
    Florida can soften a man
    imaginary motives at the library
    now the library is without words
    just a festering sore with strong WIFI
    nothing sterile—literature in a deplorable state
    retired TV personalities behind the desk
    even with practice no natural voice
    nothing manly perched out front
    nothing manly available

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  456. eatmorewords

    the guys who play sport with white glowing teeth – shower room antics
    whiteboard tactics and gang mentality – school mascot the PYGNY GOAT
    kidnapped and ransomed and made to wear a mask

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  457. multiplemichael

    WITHOUT ANY GUARANTEE ABOUT SAFETY
    the poet sticks his neck out
    risking his self-image
    words can make one seem silly
    caricatures of themselves
    fornication
    replaced with chronic fighting
    the smell of alcohol
    true drunkenness never wears off

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  458. eatmorewords

    the old woman who lived in the shoe
    arthritic fingers and testy eyed emissions – 16 kids behind closed doors – the future can never been thrown away

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  459. multiplemichael

    ————————–previously thought to be questionable
    (the world’s saddest polar bear)
    Americans now ready to act on a whim
    have fed the polar bear to a large shark at SeaWorld

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  460. eatmorewords

    stay on the path don’t stray from the path – they tried to arrange a ceasefire
    they tried to remove to the words
    – paint over the vowels
    redistribute the nouns
    – all seen from above future drone life all from above
    – down near the bayou that catches your tears
    – 23,000 ft above the oxygen masks dropped

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  461. eatmorewords

    dead leaves are the colour of winter but for now the sun shine over fresh cut grass twigs are branded attached to trees waiting for death
    – “what kind of monster was god?”

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  462. eatmorewords

    the local library doesn’t stock books
    just computers and access to websites – libraries rated on strength of WIFI and the odour of the toilet
    – retired TV personalities only read books written by retired TV personalities – a sad merry-go-round at a time when everyone is to afraid to comment –
    perched and parched on the edge of the branch

    the world is sterile
    unease over the future : the man with the wig

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  463. eatmorewords

    famous words once spoken
    now stolen
    again, nothing new under the sun
    – famous head and more famous hair
    Christian conservatives and the fascist bandwagon arrived in a private helicopter

    – padlock the doors and eat the keys

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  464. multiplemichael

    disenchantment of God
    what drives people to the library
    I asked for a tour of the bathroom facilities
    the librarian thought I asked about her private facilities
    I had a bit of trouble with the library system
    it is the decline of the West
    men standing in mud
    unaided reason

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  465. multiplemichael

    —————-behind closed doors
    where the jism flowed by the quart
    outrageous behavior for a man
    —————————————–
    just an old arthritic bag of bones
    but….SHE could crack a nut
    ****the obituary columns were full

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  466. eatmorewords

    we need to stop animal on animal crime
    we need to stop SeaWorld creating monsters
    WE NEED TO STOP EVERYTHING
    – a birthday card with a happy polar bear and a ridiculous punchline

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  467. multiplemichael

    just last night I was with a happy polar bear
    we were reading musical notation
    and enjoying the music
    without listening to the actual notes
    imaginary sounds by candle light
    ****positive romantic performance: 2016

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  468. multiplemichael

    a most problematic moment
    the sad polar bear
    nothing to eat
    only grudges (recent and otherwise)
    ———————————————-
    troubled sleep with zoo dentists
    trying to brush his teeth
    days spent on automatic pilot

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  469. multiplemichael

    when I asked the librarian about your book
    he said that it had been misplaced
    I could smell the edible herbs and fruit in his pocket
    I could hear the rules of behavior in the back of his voice
    he had seen an issue of Playboy and knew about geographical genitals
    he said in school the other students called him “Alphabet Man”

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  470. multiplemichael

    spider pills are known to increase
    the complexity of consciousness
    riddling elders
    compensating
    constantly compensating
    severely impoverished
    guilty of memorization

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  471. eatmorewords

    the decline of the west started with the burning of books
    – each letter in flames
    the homeless warming their skinny frames on the embers of dying thoughts
    – that’s all poems are
    thoughts but into shapes

    – young Michael and the tour guide encrypting a 1000years of ideas in microfiche

    young Michael with a gun

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  472. eatmorewords

    death is always inches away
    cold fingers waiting around the corner – cold and white
    like half the buried dead – cold and white and inescapable from the inevitable*

    *never a fan of rhyming

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  473. multiplemichael

    HOURS AND HOURS OF DEPRIVATION
    poetry in a shoebox
    a trashcan of poetry from the past
    the happy polar bear was just an acquaintance
    primarily a “nice day” kind of guy
    conversation and spider pills
    the happy polar bear was a mathematician
    a musician
    a historian
    and sometimes a biblical detective
    not just any bible but an abstractly coded bible
    his usage of words—his main function
    I was high and he made conversation a chess game

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  474. multiplemichael

    way too dependent on television
    religious salvation was on the back-burner
    like I would waste one minute on the idiot tube
    pacified by entertainers ?
    I told them at headquarters
    that I wasn’t taking the smoke up the ass no more

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  475. eatmorewords

    my book was called “the eternal twitch of the nervous millennium” –
    misplaced in the factual section
    – the elbow patches on the librarians jacket were fashioned from felt – an empty lighter in his pocket half chewed pen –
    in a dusty world of words
    the alphabet man never got past the first sentence

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  476. eatmorewords

    the happy polar bear was the title of self help book popular back in the day –
    become the polar bear it said
    “stroke the FUR of life” was the title of chapter 6 –
    white skin against a white tundra background of ice
    – snow blinded by the words
    – the polar bear and the librarian
    – the blue bulls & the Otis men
    – ineffectual intellectual debates about sexual power and cheap motels
    – I was high for the best part of the past 2oyears

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  477. multiplemichael

    —————–YET
    when honeymoon action is well chosen, well arranged,
    put into practice time and time again
    the bride and groom will generate gratifying experiences
    during the real event

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  478. multiplemichael

    in your new book
    you made patterns of order
    out of random events
    comments and conversations
    snippets impinging on your consciousness
    you went so far as to print shopping lists
    pages from diaries and telephone books
    anything to share a disciplined means of expression

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  479. multiplemichael

    it is no secret that half of the female population
    in a retirement home near your neighborhood
    (—-at least the semiliterate ones)
    send you daily valentines
    women who want bedroom action
    that they can easily recall
    or possibly relive
    ****they want communication, Johnny Boy

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  480. multiplemichael

    should zoo dentists be poets
    or
    amateur historians ?
    ancient scholars rubbing themselves
    educated amusement ?
    weedy junk baby
    garbled memories from childhood
    early industrial cutlery on the tee shirt
    snapshots of MOM naked on a rug

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  481. multiplemichael

    an abundance of muggers
    at your birthday party
    miserable people
    finding vegetables sexually attractive
    baboons with bright blue butts
    9 out of 10 children have memorized them
    cheerleaders follow suit and color their rears
    attention being focused there
    (what can be accomplished)

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  482. multiplemichael

    (=) romance has its predictable plots
    manageable characters
    birth control elbows its way to center stage
    ****stay away from people who bad-mouth depersonalized sex

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  483. multiplemichael

    (=) new patterns in poetry—new patterns of interaction
    constant conflict with expectations
    the wife demands reorientation of attentional habits
    the groom has to readapt time after time
    the wife demands similar emotions
    to all stimuli they may encounter
    rare deviations from the norm

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  484. eatmorewords

    we ordered the patterns
    made the lines conform
    we told them that patterns existed in everything – the unwritten rules
    the reason we all stop at red lights

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  485. multiplemichael

    your brother called and warned me
    that you were back to that old habit
    ————————————————-
    crazy to maximize emotional returns
    ————————————————-
    seems you found HER labor-saving
    bedroom appliance
    (chafed by external constraints)

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  486. multiplemichael

    ————BROKEN FINGERS————
    it contributes to, rather than detracts from,
    the enjoyment
    romance by the clock
    the tyranny of time
    ****paying attention to the activity
    ——————-outside in the trees
    the apes are focused on its consequences

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  487. multiplemichael

    ————SEX IS HARD AND UNGLAMOROUS
    most people find it boring, repetitive
    meaningless
    poetry about the worker’s level of development
    for hundreds of thousands of years
    IN-OUT…………IN-OUT
    just a reproductive activity
    then along came modern man
    with his chancy periods of waiting helplessly
    for the other party to cooperate
    daydreams of exploitive strangers
    unwholesome frenzy
    honest exhaustion

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  488. multiplemichael

    excuse me—-I am busy watching strangers
    engaged in mock-meaningful action
    (participation requires a condom)
    quick—write a poem about underlying emptiness
    quick—write a poem about wasted time
    ————————–PASSIVE ENTERTAINMENT
    Robert Frost sucking the marrow out of children
    marrow squandered on an old bag of bones
    a senior citizen douche-bag

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  489. multiplemichael

    UNTUTORED CHILDREN STAND BESIDE THE ROAD
    THEY ARE FLASHLIGHTS WITH NO BATTERIES
    a house full of rondels, ballades, foreign tongues
    scrambling English words with exceptions
    non-dictionary words
    double negatives
    redundant superlatives
    dense condensation
    truck stop poetry about rectums
    not-so-public playthings
    bubble-butt glorification
    tulips from the chimney

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  490. multiplemichael

    —————-INSTRUCTIONS TO FABRICATE POETRY———–
    receptivity is the sports car
    the man nuts to dream the James Bond car
    to take control of translations
    the women who moved through you
    expensive glue
    submerged in translations
    weird words from a burlesque dance contest
    Englishmen with trunks of elixir
    children born of a circus barker
    (moral codes, you ask)
    SHE was a self-appointed enforcer

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  491. multiplemichael

    the reason the young poet was kicked
    from the nest
    the constant need for spontaneity
    tired of the confined, formal life
    the Reader’s Digest of Family Life
    tired of hearing other people’s heartbeats
    especially passionate bouts in the dark
    death-defying sex
    loop-the-loops
    with the vulgar parts
    not the intellect

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  492. eatmorewords

    the chimpanzee outside on the tree are thinking
    “WILL I BE THE ONE PICKED TO
    SIT IN A ROOM AND PUNCH A TYPEWRITER UNTIL SHAKESPEARE APPEARS BEFORE ME?”
    – focused on the consequences
    – simian poets picking lice from their lovers scalps
    – abstract nouns thrown around the canopy
    – no honeymoon for monkeys in love

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  493. multiplemichael

    sitting in front of that typewriter
    ———————-sitting in front of that typewriter
    ALL SEMANTICS AND NO SUBSTANCE
    sitting in front of that typewriter
    ———————-sitting in front of that typewriter
    xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    please include honeymoon poetry
    that challenges historical definitions
    odd stimulus-response correlations
    controversial behavior
    “IF ONE MUST DROWN A RAT TO GET ACADEMIC CRITICISM
    THEN BY ALL MEANS—DROWN A RAT”

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  494. multiplemichael

    the apes carried parasites
    which spread to the human subjects
    adults located behind typewriters
    improvisation—perpetual tinkering
    pondering what to write
    on the blanks asking for occupation

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  495. multiplemichael

    WHO WAS THE PERSON SITTING BEHIND THE TYPEWRITER ?
    ————-it was not Arnold Schwarzenegger
    considered scabrous enough
    the cut and thrust of a dramatized honeymoon
    time spent waiting—semen spent never retrieved
    the smell of homosexual spices
    tree bark and fresh-washed youth

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  496. eatmorewords

    not living inside a photograph
    not dead inside the frame
    just suspended
    caught forever and we won’t fade
    caught forever between living and death
    caught forever showing true commitment

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  497. multiplemichael

    the pros and cons of lobotomy
    women with varicose veins
    early cocktails and spider pills
    poetry about a mishap or two
    first a snoop then a peeper
    get well cards
    from other half-breeds, mongrels

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  498. multiplemichael

    10 BOY SCOUTS IN A TENT—FEEDING FRENZY
    it would take a literary genius to write re-readable poetry
    to belong in the mainstream—to remain in the mainstream
    cocktail waitresses with nearly legal spider pills
    slowing down and suspending the foreplay
    women with handles on the sides
    Jell-O where Jell-O doesn’t belong
    humping-grunting-even standing up
    incidental pleasures

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  499. multiplemichael

    everyone at the party had plum-hued rears
    people were aware of passive intercourse
    slow sodomy with an academic twist
    Vaseline scented rectal mucus
    colors like a cheap pie crust

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  500. multiplemichael

    ———————-all these dead people
    walking around
    ——-wanting what the Nazis wanted before World War 2
    the confidence of religion knocking on doors
    the hinges of the mouth
    a pudgy vulva
    ****like trying to stuff the Ark in a bikini

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  501. eatmorewords

    varicose veins
    tributaries of a fully functioning river
    – too many pills
    CH 1700 and 5 miles from here
    T25
    60
    50
    40
    piss in a cup
    three birds flying in formation
    in the shape of a famous constellation
    free recovery
    (we) await rescue

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  502. multiplemichael

    spider pills and an electrochemical glow
    home proves to be a failed idea
    started sleeping on the road
    dreams about trying to regain control
    ****in a hardcore handbrake skid

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  503. eatmorewords

    scouts and spider pills : an outrageous situation
    – BE PREPARED
    – a motto to live by, spider pill antidote carried in small glass phials

    10 Boy Scouts in a tent
    a horrendous stink from 10 farting arses
    NO VENTILATION

    brave experimentation leads to incidental pleasures

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  504. eatmorewords

    the meat warehouse in downtown darktown – carcass of stolen pets stripped and hung
    – cheap meat for the poorer folk
    no questions asked transactions
    – fur wigs
    – necklaces laced of bone
    – dried blood in the cargo bay
    – night shift shakes
    – the night watch man is lonely*
    – career choices: leviathan, meat factory, jazz man

    *didn’t Dylan say he was insane?

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  505. eatmorewords

    the homemade pie
    left on the windowsill (a stereotype of perfect housekeeping**)
    the hardened crust
    but soft &
    moist inside
    – no need for Vaseline
    no need to exchange names
    as the doctor and dentist always said “relax, it won’t hurt and will be over in seconds”…

    **not in the cutie house here the pies were strangely LARGE

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  506. eatmorewords

    the walking dead are everywhere
    eyes angled to a screen of a phone –
    the hinges on the body squeaked when it moved
    in need of oiling
    screaming lubrication

    when they stuff the ark into a biking small splinters poked from the edges
    public hair spider legs

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  507. eatmorewords

    electrochemical rushes as you look through the rear view mirror the world shrinks
    road markings as street hieroglyphs

    – I slept outside & insects crawled over my face –

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  508. multiplemichael

    a willingness to go the limit
    expression and emotion captured in the black and white
    of a night void of streetlight or campfire
    the wafer of the church replaced by insects
    the words of hundred-percenters sleeping inside a library
    no room vacant on the shelves for raucous directness

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  509. multiplemichael

    WAS IT A “HIM” OR A “HER”
    THAT SAID
    “JUST THINK OF IT AS SOFT ICE CREAM”
    no straining through the literary sieve
    not easily imagined—the seeds of the future

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  510. multiplemichael

    poets write poetry
    about the delicious silence of night
    when I go outside
    I hear the rattles of queer bones
    the drums of thick-skinned souls
    the friction of corduroy reproduction

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  511. multiplemichael

    purchasing spider pills in bright colors
    if you look at them closely
    you can see sombrero-like hats
    and wild gypsy shirts
    I often pick out the ones
    with handsome facial features
    as they melt they kiss
    the sensitive areas
    inside my mouth

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    just the feel of the insects feet touching skin
    (like the chills that up your spin on honeymoon night) – running over my face
    I can feel them
    In my ears
    – the square root of all the death in war
    – the biggest coffin we share each day

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  513. eatmorewords

    stumbling to the limit
    reaching the edge without knowing how far you can go –
    asking the vicar for cheese to go with the wafer

    THIS ISN’T A RESTAURANT

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  514. eatmorewords

    corduroy friction
    the trousers of the professor of PURE mathematics
    – PURE numbers with no grey areas, no room for misinterpretation – the numbers always add up – THEY ALWAYS DO –

    computers are never wrong USER ERROR –
    belittled by a machine
    angry homosapien returns home
    berates his children
    screams at the food he’s been served
    – furious masturbation, angry then relief
    – modern man belittled by machines

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  515. eatmorewords

    the sensitive areas were off limits
    the pills kept the shakes at bay
    nightmares about spiders
    about moths flapping wings
    of insects burrowing inside
    laying eggs

    the softest part of the body is on the inside

    a constant battle to corrupt the working class

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  516. multiplemichael

    A CONSTANT BATTLE
    ridiculous to compete
    enough is never enough
    to be sized
    like a school boy flaunting
    it is almost in your face
    “Yes, it is abnormally LARGE—now back off”
    daydreams about it being anaesthetized and cut off
    the doctor—a paid censor
    how many ancestors in an inch ?
    the fat nonsense of poetry
    indecent, shameless, unexcused
    the dong that refused to sleep

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  517. multiplemichael

    ——————THE HONEYMOON
    genitals of indestructible quality
    sexual activity that might be distinguished
    from its communicable content
    but which in no sense could be repeated
    ****the formula of surprise was a crowd pleaser

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  518. eatmorewords

    we wrote that yesterday
    it’s history – the words can wilt
    a cut down tree
    dead sap

    washed away
    names carved into bark

    after my vasectomy my children thought I’d ejaculate dust

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  519. eatmorewords

    looping the loop so fast your feet pass your head – tired of that which confines
    – a dislike for Gravity
    – introduced to the complexities of sexual life through well thumbed copies of Readers Digest –
    – aghast at what comes out of the body
    – aghast at what can go INTO the body

    – blunted intellect vs the vulgar parts –

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  520. multiplemichael

    —CRYPTIC NAUGHTINESS—
    back page sort—immature
    infantile
    a motel squeal
    ——————
    ——————
    edges, corners, boundary lines
    poking a scholastic finger
    against the virginity
    the nutshell

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  521. multiplemichael

    the beautiful mystery that you celebrate
    the reality of existence itself
    the wonderful one-times-only
    ————————————-
    ————————————-
    pomp and pretense and vulgarity
    relatives lashing out
    hoping to injure or destroy
    implications intended
    ****the scalpel was packed for that special event

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  522. eatmorewords

    nothing back page
    it’s all upfront
    page 3 onwards
    – motel squeal
    motel squeak –

    the perfect relationship:

    he liked the sound of laughing babies
    she liked the sound of war

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  523. eatmorewords

    read today that Gaia was dying a slow death – in years there will be ramifications
    there will be no special event
    unwanted guests will be ushered silently out the back door –
    silently into the non/existence

    the beautiful mystery of life

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  524. multiplemichael

    take things as they come
    ——————without remembering
    the circle around the night fire
    no need to guess what may come next
    deceptively persuasive romance
    indistinguishable love and hate

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  525. multiplemichael

    SHE said that it was never like that
    that it was acting inapprehensible
    ****between the letters of the word
    a slot for insertion
    —————————————–
    —————————————–
    in all sexual relations
    precise terms
    are essentially poetic
    ****proper rounding off
    is left to the church folk

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  526. multiplemichael

    a local streetwalker told me for a $100 more
    I could fornicate with her cousin
    SHE was superficially less flabby
    somewhat less tawdry
    one could argue the lack of a big behind
    no one could deny the dead intelligence

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  527. multiplemichael

    typographical peculiarities
    accidently (?)
    placed on the job application
    wild punctuation—odd size letters
    ****the unicorn doodle turned X-rated
    so I had to erase it
    the eraser on the pencil was fake
    the more I erased
    the worse it looked

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  528. eatmorewords

    the church folk use abacus and fingers and count
    – the act they don’ t talk about
    – sexuality locked firmly up in the catacombs along with ghosts and skeletons – (she once claimed she saw a black rat down there) – church folk
    a funny joke

    I could see the steeple from a mile off

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  529. multiplemichael

    THE SOUNDS OF WAR
    a descriptive setting
    what could change the flatness of the wall ?
    the misconceptions of your true self ?
    employed by the high heavens
    vague numbers not words
    where be the agitation of the senses ?
    ****me thinks the stirring life be not sufficient

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  530. multiplemichael

    because I am ignorant of what I write
    I use inefficient and superficial conventions
    often a little vague about the villains I sleep with
    ****sensation itself is always in excess

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  531. eatmorewords

    I know that street walker –
    she carried her cousin around in a bag –
    a tiny little lady
    – a little treat
    – $100 worth of fun

    I wrote her three songs and sang her one

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  532. eatmorewords

    the job application* had a secret code – an acrostic poem
    spelling out a location where we could meet – horizontal –
    it wasn’t an accident
    nothing peculiar they thought

    erasing the unicorn wang turned into one bloody mess

    *mis-read job application as Jon application (personality change required)

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  533. multiplemichael

    at work you tried to imitate disorder
    the ladies like strange fowl ignored you
    poetry from general observation
    your mother once wrote on the inside flap
    “preposterous balderdash”
    ——————–
    that early volume of poetry
    heavenly somersaults
    with young relatives
    delirious from kissing
    looking at illustrations
    of naked people at Coney Island
    rubbing fingers over the privates
    anesthetizing the pretty ones

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  534. multiplemichael

    the down-rush of potent spider pills
    talk of collapsible bras
    wads of Irving Berlin
    everyone blamed the youngest daughter
    ****miracles take place….SHE went from a 32 to a 38

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  535. eatmorewords

    he was asked to describe the sound of war – he screamed
    and screamed
    hand over ears
    he screamed – that was the sound he remembered –
    he remembered laying on the floor and the whole world looked horizontal –
    a vagueness amongst hurt tress and dead land

    – it was only below sea level he could see his true self

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  536. eatmorewords

    we are vague –
    everything we do is insufficient –
    Michaels Superficial Conventions wasn’t the best name for the band –
    we are ignorant
    but are we understood?

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  537. multiplemichael

    what a leap of faith
    to purchase the new cd
    by MICHAELS SUPERFICIAL CONVENTIONS
    seems very thin indeed
    ecstasy and anal intuition
    sizeless in sleep and death
    music with machinerish elements
    possibly
    husbands begging for wife sex
    significant coiled ball aches
    no drums—just the headboard
    of a motel bed

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  538. eatmorewords

    the ladies in their uniforms
    at work with rough hewn fingers – one of them told me “all poetry is from observation” –

    I unpacked my imagination into words

    we put in the ground work
    did the hard yards like when you chased your first date

    back then when you had enthusiasm and energy

    a somersault stalled due to inertia

    I could count the pretty ones on one hand

    (. I only know Coney Island from the movies .)

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  539. eatmorewords

    that girl you knew in fifth grade tried to smuggle spider pills over the Mexican border –
    stuffed in collapsible bras –
    remember her?
    two places to the left in your school photo?

    – I blame no-one EXCPET Mr.Berlin

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  540. multiplemichael

    substandard poetry and malt whiskey
    an old stolen rubber sheet
    enemas without embarrassment
    acrobatic love-making
    thank God for smelling salts
    quivering nostrils
    signed, “it won’t have to be done again”

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  541. multiplemichael

    no drums—just the headboard
    of a motel bed
    tender talk like drug pusher promises
    “I am becoming what I am becoming”
    metamorphosis—white skin devil
    the horns before the orgasm itself
    ****prelude to and metaphor of

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  542. eatmorewords

    I am becoming what I am becoming” – blue Johnny 5
    lost currency
    behind the sofa secrets
    – the crumbs
    fallen
    a thousand ways since yesterday
    “screaming daisies”**
    no time for the climax as we push on

    **overhead lyrics from a speeding cat

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  543. multiplemichael

    pulling and pumping———-hurry up
    the flesh is rented
    opened skin for direct sodomy
    ——-a large pulsating dong was visible
    make the face of the physical pain
    EXTERNALIZING the tunneling sensation

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  544. eatmorewords

    government cuts have shut the hermaphrodite centre – anonymous names put in a hat
    – I called the helpline but it was engaged –
    angels of the north alway stay off the moor

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  545. multiplemichael

    the world of Peter Pan Poetry
    yes, the secret tattoo
    men in the pokey proud of their ink mark
    having once been young
    postcards of them wearing their capecoats
    glorification of villainy
    how American

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  546. multiplemichael

    a handful of spider pills
    a terrible sense of unease
    victims unable to say exactly why
    ————–
    relatives knocking on the door
    simply short of funds
    you think about answering the door
    with a Leonardo DiCaprio mask

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  547. multiplemichael

    bongo-drum beatnik baby
    poets hatched from speckled eggs
    SHE said that she was just a large bird
    with theatrical thighs
    doggy style was like rambling a large bear
    a rambling baby-pink Cape Cod snapper
    a terrible rip in the flesh with hair right up to the edge
    not just a standard-issue vulva
    the upholstery had class

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  548. eatmorewords

    glorification of villainy
    death on a pedestal – the old uniforms worn at night
    – the old postcards of tourist sites
    a birthday card reused year after year
    – we were all young once

    there is a building down the road older than your country

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  549. eatmorewords

    Leonardo masks on sale in time for Halloween –
    half price by Christmas –
    experimenting with different faces
    fooling family members – a knock on the door
    a creaking coffin lid

    victims can’t explain why they are the victim – just place and time they guess

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  550. multiplemichael

    poetry about lovers that predeceased us
    real living people that we sank our teeth into
    at some moment we opened our mouths
    nuisances continue to come out
    a shoebox of teeth
    a large number
    each one was a financial woe
    “those damn wisdom teeth”

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  551. multiplemichael

    we deceive ourselves
    just watch someone open their mouth
    I vote for puritanism !!!
    serrated teeth and Jesus
    walking hamburgers
    a sprained groin
    spillage in the slot
    devil-worship and UFO abduction
    spent food expelled

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  552. multiplemichael

    THE SOUND OF A SINGLE VIOLIN
    dormant evil under each rug
    preliminaries
    kindergarten
    personal mementoes
    cherry trees from George Washington
    —————at some point you open yourself to risk
    you claim that everything is a LIE
    that Peter Fonda was only acting in “Easy Rider”

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  553. eatmorewords

    walking carrion
    predetermined existence, up until a point
    we don’t know where we’re going but we know where we’re ending – bent over, a couple o teeth taking maybe we should embrace God* and waiting for the UFOS

    * no embrace for false idols

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  554. eatmorewords

    WordPress is a prostitute
    with open legs
    an invite to vouyers
    everyone’s a critic
    reading behind people’s back
    – delete the comments
    erased your thoughts
    self censorship
    a madman with scissors

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  555. multiplemichael

    down at the pool hall
    they say that WordPress is reinforced
    with chicken wire
    I don’t know
    people constantly try to rob
    the staircase of its uprightness
    they sniff the sofa cushions
    they find guilt in the master bedroom
    jism in the shower cubicle
    life becomes even more splintered

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  556. multiplemichael

    I thought I was looking at a photograph of WordPress
    it turned out to be a Chihuahua in a holiday sweater
    a little creep not long to becoming a published author
    impersonating Elvis Presley —- typing with her tongue
    a tight little piece—centering on a character
    who is a good nurturing attendant to children
    yet writes poems about children being dolls
    who strongly influence all notions of identity

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  557. eatmorewords

    a clown** in mans clothing
    anatomically correct mannequin
    all the wrong lifestyle choices
    – tunnel vision
    – the desire to have harder abs
    – she wanted that beach body she deserved
    – she wanted stronger hair, hair that shone –
    she wanted THINGS

    **custard pies in the face daily

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  558. eatmorewords

    WordPress surrounded by barbed wire – a gaggle of geese hiss at the periphery – no entrance for the wordless –
    cushion sniffers
    panty stealers

    small samples
    secretly secreted

    the guilt felt for the actions you carried out

    shower cubicle deep cleansed then set on fire

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  559. multiplemichael

    in the dream we were fishing
    you kept asking me
    what pound-test monofilament
    you should be using
    and I was thinking
    Jesus Christ
    you’re screwing with my luck
    WHY DID YOU HAVE TO WEAR
    THAT INDIAN-STYLE
    HEADBAND ?
    the guy at the bait shop
    charged you tourist price

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  560. eatmorewords

    tranquility of sitting in the fishing bank – nature surrounds – sitting in a folding chair waiting for the kill –
    sorry I was bad luck
    sorry I was a Jonah
    an albatross around the neck
    – dry throated sailor
    an insignificant pin prick on a world of water – the head band can function as a noose

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