Numb Pierre: They said he would have survived had he not been clipped in the head.
Translation: It was our half-brother Pierre who came up with breeding the birds. He is a deep man. What he thinks mostly ends up coming about.
Big Julio: Like the—let me see what’s it—the Magnusson device.
Numb Pierre: Pop.
Translation: Right. That’s it.
Big Julio: What sort of device is the Magnusson device and why is it important?
1.
mathematical papercuts
If I slouched beyond damaged
passions snapped bare branched
floating over streetscapes
frosted over like my head
aloft shifting anxiety from foot
to unresponsive foot
persisting cultural following
the flow
of half-
measures
spent spiraling book
bindings
troubled adjustments
drooling over phone call
sleep
less
embracing
embarrassments
stressed
OVER or
I am leaning
out of five
STORY narrative
indecision in
most
absurdist laughter
b/c I
cease to
demise in myself the
sharply divided
mathematical papercuts
balmy / coarse
/ leading an overzealous train
into tunnels
forbidden
to future
an ear
canal
filled to
WATER’s
delight
wispy
Italian
countryside
flooded
hooded
darkened blessed
out shaded
not in the cornerstone method
but more of a detective novel
written backwards better than enough
not a withdrawal or a canyon of
the lack of color blistered through
atrophied overhead weightless
in extent shouted thorough engrossed
physics!
physics!
loose &
sobbing
officious effacement
blinded
Borges
alleys
from which no escape
exists
into another
after a shutter profoundly
imploded
horse / meat
/ meet / greet
did
not
could
not
had
not
still a knot
head soft
er&
an
overanalyzed
burst of
ENVY took
to the
back roads
where I
sling shot meanings
until
promises
parachute
into
periodontists blue
bluer
the bluest
of all &
the wearable
paint chips
eaten /
discarded /
disordered
pressing shirts
together
mellowed
sifting through
out
beaming
into
sharpened focused
malcontent
oh
did
someone say
my
name
name
NAME
??????
not there
but here
reaching often
times
resting for lives
up & down
block
heads
in the shuddering
light of no one
seemed the wiser
or less grateful
to have been
snot
to have offered
allegories
to paradise
cranking
crooked
jonesing
for seldom uttered
to yearn
to a year
to
a sheer
seer
short on bench
warmed to an
under
stated
tidal wave
laid flat
daffodil tried
on an
experimental basis to
be regarded ion full length
mirror the self-inflicted
righteous fireworks specialists
unjustifiably engaged
& w/o
this
w/o
that &
w/o
categorical
cultural
spangle
sparked
in preventable
social malaise
dusted
off
moved
around
cursed until
the frontal
lobe
finds another
source for its
disaffection
***
2.
an eye landing shade in gazing parameters blind
Anxious breathless
paranoid transfixed
hilltop stubbing
toe inside jar
of jammed up
snow shovel & half a solid
form fragmented centi-
pede film noir
above average ball
& chain long
gone from b/t
solid Mandarin oranges
peeled like
great fist
of rotting muscles
blasting ant
shells into pulverized
athletics w/ an
intellectual’s wish fulfillment tho
a simplistic notion shattered
like Chinese food containers
unwound along a warmed
spread
television personification
tonsils on fire
a burnt roof of
mouth progressive
rock
royalty check
to the power of numbers
as yet defined
entwined w/
stubborn whisker an
apartment of frosty
calories piled into smiles
frivolous fountains
fading calypso aftertaste
bottled water
hollowed bullet
machine gun man
hole
cover
killer clove &
cinnamon delight fright
kite after then
horn of plenty
beyond the
man w/ the
movie camera
half-light
sharp blurred
lens crafted
spitting image
crossing of
thief hope chest
diamond larger
than an
earthquake
tie-dyed & unbalanced
solo vain
lashing out
screeching
gold dust
whip
stubborn
gulf
stream
salad
bowl
jack of all trades
vest pattered
for puke
for memorial
pleasure cruises spinning
bad faith breath
last
remnant
milk
shake
melt
mist spray
can of
worms
a bust of
Caligula spray
painted
stars
striped
bickering steadfast
torn
curtain
possessor
on
fire blocks
brigade made
in the
shade
huts hunted
hunters
misters
mystic
in
perforations
part giraffe
& part
gyroscope
stubborn
unheard &
variously
valiant
to rest a
jester’s fist in an
anus
coffee
press
impressed beneath
gas station attendant
hair
staring
pomade duck
bill
platitude platitude
platitude
made
in reference
to buttered
envelopes
scared
still
shifted
slanted
against one-
eyed
house
glass straining
for decision
running in
place w/
scissor
kick
trembling
theremin
plain
tea kettle
little drummer boy
taken out &
shot until
fish function
beyond their
means
at
disposal
proposing activation
code of
colorful
ennui
jolted
zeroed
into
zone of
speaking parts
the actor
a dud
volleyball
dancer
pole
stolen dripped
knife
plunged
deeper
until altogether
lost.
