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1. Abject
world sits abject drinks its horrortea sits
in fear asteroids circle jail guards rattle bars abject imprisoned world sits
under blackwinter sun dim world dark abject frustrated sees not what light
allows love gone hope gone abject world sits in corner drinks sits abject
imprisoned under sun sits cold the world abject frustrated corner sees not what
abject light shows
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2. The Idiot
Nothing
nothing
nothing
no
thing
significant
3. In Underreality Milk Is Always Blue
Tilt your eyes
a few degrees from your head
watch the colors shift
learn the pain
of razors
withpostcoital
cigarettes
through their handles' holes
in the bloody aftermath
gerbil's teeth clench tight
around a shaft
of brown celery
stoned
to death
it falls
in a haze
of brown fur
andgrey brain
it is an honest death
gerbil-Jehovah called Him home
4. Poems Found in Conversation
What seven days hath wrought
let no man put asunder
(deep
in the corner
of
the eye,
a
woodcut by Joshua Stearles)
amazing work, that.
What seven days hath wrought
(in
the hospital gift shop
two
stuffed penguins)
Seventeen days is more like it.
We cannot but be tempted
by such things. Nine dollars
for a steak, some mandarin
gelatin, intensive care.
(He
tried to kill himself
with
the earpiece
of
his eyeglasses, of all things—
can
you imagine?)
The short-order cook
didn't
burn it, for once.
Let's go outside and have
a smoke, flip the bird
to all this sterilization.
5. Scrutiny Melts
eyes run with tears
eyes run with flesh
mind raptured back
to a time of eyes
all eyes turned away
eyes twitch
melt
stare
rapture over
eyesrun with flesh
away
6. Stones (Human Disease)
mocking words spite you bear all that is
hate latch on leech on leach out spirit your words burn signs burn hate burn
diamonds of my eyes sun lens point on hand burn feels good all that is hate beg
your words mock words spite beg you leech on this rack beg mock words taunt you
leech I hope you burn
7. What Happened After the Reading
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