Thursday, December 26, 2019

Howie Good - 3 prose poems


How to Cope with a Crisis
Maggie swore she’d just seen John the Baptist searching behind the couch for his missing head. Someone should tell him, she said over the party noises, poor hygiene doesn’t make you look badass. Meanwhile, in every room, even the bathrooms, there were paintings. I took that as a sign of an ongoing crisis in representational art. Then a bird happened to fly in while the door was left open for the dogs. None of us guests could catch it as it ricocheted off tables, mirrors, walls. There was only one thing to do – kick out the windows and scream, “Fire!”

Air Like Poison
Hey, did you see those sea turtles down there? I often see them, though not as often or as many as I did before there were boats, the bridge, some buildings, even a small amusement park. Wherever they go, the turtles seem to leave a trail of watery stools behind. The ocean feels a little sick right now. There’s actually too much sunlight, too much air like poison. And it all comes from the same place, a collected disarray of memory and daydreams, the millstones that early New Englanders used to crush Giles Corey to death for being a witch.

Grandson (with Apologies to Werner Herzog) 
Now that you’re 8 years old, you have to know how to travel on foot. You have to know how to make fire without matches. You have to know how to catch a trout with your bare hands. (It’s fairly easy. You just have to understand how the trout thinks.) You have to know how to forge a document, let’s say a gun permit, in a country under military rule. You have to know how to open a safety lock – surreptitiously, of course, with burglar tools. You have to know how to tell at a glance night from other darkness.

Thursday, December 19, 2019

Vodka Gobalsky - Flarf Diddle

DIDDLE
on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on

[52:36] IN THE END

HOLD IT

[30:00] ALL AS YOU GIVE ME.
[30:00] AS YOU GIVE ME
[30:00] AS YOU GIVE ME

[30:00] ON YOUR LIST
[30:00] ON YOUR LIST
[30:00] ON YOUR LIST
[30:00] ON YOUR LIST

(from Ben Baz-Lincoln's The Music Man's Guide to Gothic and Military Movies, 2001)

(and here's a commercial for the song too...)

(EXPLICITLY to the tune of the song)
And the restless stars 
Once upon a time 
(because, you couldn't tell)
i'm not at all tired now...

(Barry Lyndon, medley)

Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Yrik Max Valentonis - Lost in Urban Landscaping #3, #5, #26, #40, & #55

Lost In Urban Landscaping #5 


People stare at clouds
Searching for meaning in their life
Through random actions
Of the environment





In 
Eden,
Adam could
Not help but to
Name everything he saw
The urge to define, classify, denote,
Explain, organize, interpret, express, signify,
Refine


Led
To the
Downfall




humanity's need to
conquer and subjugate
the natural order
of the universe


T O P I A R

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Thursday, December 5, 2019

Hugh Tribbey - 3 poems



SUBMISSION TO EX-EX, OCTOBER 2019, HUGH TRIBBEY



1 PRIME RIB AMARILLO

April hernia Keno
Toady floral Amarillo
Amarillo with roads
Amarillo elected Vidalias in the colon
Cement of nothing to nothing

Leon heir to dungarees viral
Elsa unites Amarillo to Mongo
Consumes lucid canapés
Lay porcelain areolas
Eat iguanas from oracular Tibet
Lost Amarillo marzipan
Sober last roses of Amarillo

Night gliders to Amarillo escalating
Bowling for diamonds
Errors of grace in the oracle’s perfume
Colorado desperate for division
Enter horseradish and the lost mustard
Break the diodes for manual Amarillo

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2 LOST CONTRADICTIONS OF SURVEILLANCE

Yo, Boy, Canada!
Mayo
Extra deductions
—tuna tin coal miner—
Doomed veins flow vivid

Toto eats glue
Unite!
Intuition singes the saddle
Under venison bacon

Yeoman bangs his tambourine
Parole the mass from prison ,
No consume

Alchemy
Under dove tray quarters
A cinch

No co-sign
Alchemy
Under the dove tray quarters
A cinch

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3 MUELLER REPORT VOWELS

E ao ei eea
Aeoo eee oua
Ee ae a e oo
Oe oe a aie o
O e ie oe
A o oeooe aai

Aae