poem || Matt Margo and Joe Bussiere

“girl country television reality”

summer will not fat bomb
my parent was in new york

i breath down necks singing
take a corporate energy bar

righteous holy powers mighty morph
flavor of the mouth

into an existential
frame fatal flame on my brain

 
the people talk about
whatever

the rainbows of time
film is not vegan are pets

cells multiply because of math
midsummer

what we talk about when
whenever is whatever

owe me thousands of mysteries
like every single earth film

i take advantage of doors
our faces torn and melted

snow cone machine
people tire of tire face

the whatever of
the antelopes

life sucks when obesity bombs
kamikaze my personal brand

the aftermath of the explosion
cant do no harm no more

license my foods especially
everyone i meet confiscates myself

you fired me and smelled
seraphic cities

feelings like
snowblind windfall

ask any zoologist
you will miss being sick

look out window symmetry
the earth girls descend a mountain

coffeemaker maritime snowblower blowjob
i use your nose to hear

haibun || Sheila E. Murphy

I just remembered her address was Walled Lake. One recovered there

from an awareness swollen with itself. From which there seemed no peace,

except to spoil all likely sentience. Nixon was about to resign. Her couch

was a beige color, long and tidy as accounts receivable. His face on the TV

had no shine. Complex assignments presently were due for graduate school.

I was alone, between responsibilities that others had. Life ought to have

been funny. Despite holes between what I thought and felt. I am so old now,

younger than I was. The woods, even in summer, appeared gray beneath plush

leaves. Her drapes stayed open to the scenic day. I watched his face recite

what someone wrote for him. His face muscles bruised my history. At that time

I believed an education was a kind of fortress you could use to keep yourself as

safe or sane as needed. Always someone sipped preposterous amounts of fizz.

How did I become this quiet, this elated about simple things? How did I learn

the eloquence of amnesia? Romance languages brush pale lines on my forehead.

To persons half my age who rehearse remaining perfect as they are. Whom

I invite to teach me something.

Cast iron for the morning meal, a splinter from saguaro spine, small bird

lodged between repeat signs

Sheila E. Murphy

text || Peter Ganick

from infrastructure

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poem || Edward Nichols

Solitude


Controlled crustaceans pinched the keys of a typewriter and produced this sentence; Sometimes the enigma is the answer. Warming up to the cold winds, Dr.Dent went to the tree he had placed his hand on. He had a half vial of orgone juicein his coat pocket , he retrieved it and took a sip.He immediately saw a Hologram of a glass Pyramid,and, heplaced his hand on the imprint,and, a revelation came over himThe enigma is the answer,.He was lifted off the ground and set straight up on his head. Later on Dr.Dent wrote this poem-
     After the clowns have all gone home,
     And the audience walks out to the stree where the crowds roam,
     All the cheering ,and, all the laughs are gone,
     The individual is now all alone,
     All the world around them is made of stone,
     All societies outcasts patiently roam
    While the king of this world sets on his throne,
    The clowns wipe off their make-up and are themselves yet once again,
    Everybody now feels that human taint of sin,
      AS the night gets later the day has come to an end.

Excommunication by the way of lack of communication suited him fine. HE believed reason to be the only answer. Dr.Dent suddenly exploded with epiphany,and, realized no matter what we believe we're all headed and looking for the same thing-to find his own personal truth.

  No quizical excursion could find their way through these streets- this Rat's Maze.Casualties emanated from the beings of everyone he passed. Crumbling edifices, though they stood erect, were everywhere. Calibrated coefficiencies splattered down like rain. Insecurity infested his being. He turned around, lit a cigerette,and, inhaled the Menthol smoke, he was heading back to his apartment.Clanging retorts from the clap-clap of the shoes on the street pushed him onward. His insecurity  pushed him onward. His sense of disgust with this world pushed him onward. His on Existential naseau pushed him onward. He was now getting near the Coffee Shop AS he did He enteredHe picked a seat that wouldn't put him smack in the middle of all the Patrons,but, unfortunately still had to hear their dismal conversations-he thought to himself -I wish I had Earplugs.

poem || Peter Sherburn-Zimmer

Wi the Auld Moone in Her Arme

 

Remember: the analogy is always only partial,

No matter how fitting it may be. Experience to experience,

Past to present to futures, only a partial fit,

Always a partial discontinuity, something new

In the use of anything old, --

Remember that moone from Sir Patrick Spence?

 

Anything: Until quantity

Alters qualities.

 

Today, for instance,

My feet are killing me

Even though

I sat most of the night.

 

Stand for: a person living in the past

Makes do with Martin Buber on his mind,

Just another experience

Before they cut the grass

Around someone else’s gravestone,

Watching for ‘experience’

Or, ‘the most acoustic spot

On the entire ship’... ‘Do you know where we are?’

 

Something else would represent

...dialogue, et al.  Sharing:

 

A special place

In our relations with each other,

As the quality of those relations

Outweighing the quantity of time

Even as the discontinuity

Depends on who she is,

...nothing else needs to be said, except:

 

I am sorry she had to miss the strip show

At the poetry reading

In the art show last night.

 

The machine

Speaks to itself

Implicates us

In the general madness

 

Strangely like the end of a day already. 

 

Again

That is

To re-iterate:

All things stand for all things

In language

And in the world

But the analogy is always only

Partial

I guess.

And approximate.

 

Rang : Simple – complex - & composite

... And all those indeterminate mixtures,

Pound’s gradations of sensibility throughout the Cantos,

For another lost trope:

poems || John M. Bennett

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monnttañña de agua II slleptt iinn

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siinngle tthroatt ttwiice counntted

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ke a diick(  follded ,shoed

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ttongue II nnamed my drool

freddy ,barked before tthe llaunn

dry hamper where II lleftt my

arms my hannkeriinng my

“ttoiillettriies clliimb tthe stt

aiirs aannd giigglle”

...en el aire, piedras. – H. Or. Migas

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...jamais le reflet, surcristal.

- André Breton

olvido

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plate(  stool bomber where

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complejo  ]connaître[  lo que

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oradas ,un tenedor brilla ,u

na silla desvencijada

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...en el sueño del sartén.

- Dr. Atl

olvido

Mimo ,mato ,moro ni acá mi

acullá nor siempre simpered

in the acequia asquerosa de

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a brick  )nor snore(  cápsula

del aire ,tomb of lemurs

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side yr manga filled with

wind ~ ~   )shorter bray

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looding of the maze!

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where the plates con

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- Vicente Huidobro