poem || Lawrence Upton

HOUSE, WARMING

(to my friend Eddie now known as Jethro)

trumpet piece

the responding hairballs of mothers do after one cements the cord highball bother is

impolitely definers he

cement in line tad signs the same values to the nine

active rebellious of raters and the next two lines

sign the trend rebels the same

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trumpet piece

with

with... with cements were removers

with meat were removers and roe diets

ifs sky sedan am see

effuses are you the son, open your mouth and speak, you may be wondering how many levels of nesting are Eddie in accrued hyphenations and definitions

effuses are you the son, open your moth and sleep

effuses are you the son, open your mouth and sleep, you may be wondering how many levels of nesting are Eddie in accrued hyphenations Phoenicians airway

ascent appear to be a limit according to the rascal definitions but we do get a hint

assuage

accords how far it is passable to gods in aye

icicles you are eyed to have with

amok tea seems and it would be thins to nest with

amok tea seems and it would be thins to nest

heathen ably yenned the open urea tramming allots and nest haying amiss tare

signing a value to Sears the entire euchred of deaf is

signing a value to Sears the entire euchred of deaf is defined nine hairballs sit should be pointed out that even though Delphi is composed of nine separate

rabbles it is proper to say deaf able itself because it is a not an acrid

rabbles

ceases sassed meet era restings sex hairdos he ale

pa cords oath

airfare entwine rebels rascal mart bough

igneous hats nod sign inn ails contained

*

percussion piece

mar

mar indite cad sexed sashay

Ezekiel cad cud Ed

cod cad cud Ed ad id so cud cad cod tic id ad Ed hawk cod cad Ed

arc cad

arc cad curd

id Ed cad cod hall ad abbey

ma cad cud id ad of

coax cad Ed cud id ad

em Ed cud id

ha six am duly

nor rover lea aced ogle purpose cow ample

nor rover

elected rum lea silkier selector elected rum sulkier sum elected hi Exe

lily red

lily red gang hour top

lily red uric

lily red uric sham

lily red uric sham

red uric sham

red sham story ink

sham story ink

story ink ice

ink ice

incus no nob

thieve pen

thieve pen plus bouncy

acids do rings

cry wry construction droplets

native naively instruction

owlets imaginings

hegemonistic imaginings

tautly

nieces an

gymnastic imaginings

finings kneel

whodunit incompetently infectiously infixed

whodunit competently infectiously infixed gecko laptop

whodunit competently infectiously infixed jokey laptop

yarn meditational microrecorder

her neck, the plutonium centre, proverbs, razorwire, reason while she reworked raved shamanistic spiring stasis

I met you and, I met you and tabling topology unreconstructed

undemonstrated

undemonstrated uninterpretable unobjective war

she is a stupid fantasist

she is unobjective and she is shaking soy sauce on the noodles

she is unobjective

ship

ants

ship ants

ship ants nap amenably or

sin yawn in propel

repel promising

promising surd surdity

vender jean genie

firm

rim

morose

arouse

oceanic bowl handing stout modernity

modernity stout handling bowl oceanic jumble

lissome mind kneel me print us

tea data date dash depth path

death

death death data dash math width width them

impale dimple

impel dimple spicing

damply impala tinter with

dumpily employee Swedish

lumpily ply wish con tin at et set ten

fillet cod cud my simple on

tic id cud a bunch of idiots given power by government

tic Ed cud cad to id

to ad tic Ed

tic id

to cad

tic cad

tic id

to cod cud Ed ad

to id ad

tic cad

to id

tic cod to cad

to id tic ad

tic cod cad

*

alto sax piece

ye

ye

ye

ye skeet ah

tar as

nation ridge boil ox

sex six Exe sax

sex

tax ah

script

tax ah

prescript

do

rafter redefinitions sing

boa rum pox ox

pa pi pox o

by pa pa pi pox ox

ye yaws yeas yews pa pi pox ox

ended ass fined lit not hoaxer and vent lash lash double irks

ma yaks ox yen

ret

operate

registered

reline user

tipsy

sex six so sax

*

trumpet piece

mater embed desk dye amid toe come to the grounded

reendowed of all iota

ruptures in rascals

icicles the accords

chords hoards cards cladding

cladding cards hoards chords sad en net heeding us her an end me rehung fine awkward in details lets go right to the first ample ads

do ace is a

do ace is a

ace is a

is a gore using nonsense etude that way austerity

austerity the use of a

drover airway is only one entry in the opiate

airway is only one entry in the pat neutralised part of the

gore cur notified

cur notified tidied creations

notified tidied creations rashness cur posed layoff ears ideals and engine

ideals and engines bereave tic at layoff ash affront

Fahrenheit opiate

pat indicating that the dressier can be of mixed

mixed of be can dressier the that indicating pat

pat son have a complete example of the way a dresser is denied before yaws sty is composed of the (hue)

*

double bass piece

(or “I wish I could write poetry the way Reggie Workman plays”)

neon

ennui fattened

anyone

ennui fattened elope

anion

fattened elope

inane peroxide gig

non refer curs namely

homely owed

anon refer ends aces scale here see without

thou responding

responding begins begins sautes that this only defines a

that this only defines a tenon opiate it does not define any

it does not define any

xenon

neon bereave iota is

*

Tenor sax

pat son

have a complete example

of the way

a dresser is denied before yaws sty is composed of the hue

ad am as

ad am as ad as at aweigh hey ebb em awe

ad ah ahoy ewe how baa ad eke see

am away hay hoe bib add eel go hay

awe eye highway pa dud ewe he hoe lo

aye hew ma dad eye fee hi hue ill

whoa ha bob did do id odd en eve ahoy away aweigh aye be me gag gig egg ha he ho huh hey hew high highway how whoa Hawaii eye ewe Iowa ah oh all no non nun an en in on of

huh

whoa Hawaii eye ewe Iowa

huh did eve be he how all on ewe

bob hay boo ho so pup us up highway

Iowa

pip pop err

hey hew loo pep so tot Iowa hue weigh

hey do moo pop is us high we whew my

coo lo pip ass it hey mu ye woe gig

no pap err or as tit to tat at eye ewe hay hew how hoe huh?

go pap as at how wow why by gag eye

no or tat hew way yaw ow egg ah

err to hay Hawaii yea odd hey non ow

tit ewe whoa wee whey woo id huh Iowa or wahoo

eye huh yeah ahoy hew nun ox you ewe

hoe whey away high en Ohio ho oh Hawaii

wee Yahweh whoa on aweigh owe in yew no

yew on an eye yew eye on an yew

*

Percussive melody

posture

flash clue clench   clinch   clutch squeeze   minute kiss  

cuddle embrace fondling   clinch sprinkling clamp hold  

hug   embrace

caress   embrace fondling   glimmer   hint   command   clasp  

caress

caress   embrace   melt attraction   several howler enfold enfold  

sprinkling tinge   bag squeeze   perception embrace

embrace   fondling   hug   shine   lick   grapple   grip   hug