Friday, December 22, 2006

Arsenic and Antimony

Becoming apparent: why life is worth saving
it only works because cities are limited to
a rise and fall; a pitiful town of silence
leaves off where the sounds begin. At first,

everyone had authority - a simplest way to
support excellence, not manipulation. Being
changes in the speed of direct adaptations
ringed by a globe of tree-covered hills.

The success this service meets: even if we
leave earth behind, it is impossible to...
create a commander out of a little boy in
a world where knowing the minor tugs of

not-to-be-stated, no-great-secret, plots
opposes eros with a radioactive clearance
between "locked up on a rock" and the
"cheer up" of visual clues for gratitude.

Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Manual of Fire

the freezing-point of back-pain
begins to leave 15 to 20 minutes
for loss of guilt, kill or shame.

i wasn't alive when she died;
she wasn't dead when he
sampled electric pressures

shocks on her brain.

12 to 15 years of rosary
scales containing fists,
door jambs, rug burns...

these are recurring stories,
continually corrected -
an assay of ores contain

free gold, an apparatus

of preface: always seen,
always unknown. In this
relative loss, a resume of

error. error. error.

Thursday, December 14, 2006

Foreskin begone

Foreskin begone -
the same principle
can be carried out
in various other ways:

converted into vapor
without previous infusion,
I leave my limitatons behind;
it is a true, but obvious choice.

This is an existence that
can be easily demonstrated;
never missing, nothing lost,
this residue is called bone-ash.

A second reason against
trying not to forget death:
one can convince oneself
it crushes the world, but

this conclusion is a constant;
in order to obtain faith
between these two extremes,
because nothing is like us -

us
a process which steps only
in a place, in the present time
us

- the seven habits of highly
effective listening, showing
the invisible (sometimes),
in groups of moments that
keep changing, insipid.

Payday Delayed

I can't talk to you, so I live for you;
both complete to the touch,
drawn between the temporary and the permanant
- because words freeze when heated.

The cause of this reaction is to be found
in the "thank you" of wheeling chairs
and humming nonsensical wishes...
it's very quiet today, an intent "get it."

"I don't know how they expect
to maintain production.
They should keep us happy."

(just trying to make it even
it won't work
taking sides makes it even worse

a model of
spontaneous
disintegration

it seems like it was beginning
to turn that way, a bit;

obedience

very similar
very sparing

Monday, December 11, 2006

Noah's Ark

the scheme which he has undertaken is impractible
there are unforseen difficulties
he knew tons of people who needed help

he was living in his parents' basement in Detroit
nearing forty, D. was
a small-time rock star, bike messenger, dishwasher

he goes into a seizure
i thought he was dead

“You been hydrating yourself today?
When's the last time you used?”

We got a bucket for the puking
we want to make it as dark as possible

his job is to lay there
our job is to love people

he doesn't have a house
she has abandonment issues
this is what i can do
this little thing

Public success, private failure.

Let it then be settled:
to walk on the path of disaster,
don't worry about that
ninety percent who perish before
being summoned by means of a bell;
embrace utter and complete failure
to explain the entire world.

His mom has a good factory job.
At age four, he protested a parent's departure
not with a cry but with a categorical law:
"A child should not be separated from its mother."
He decides he wants something different:
who is the best, the most spirited?
This is a question neither of empathy,
nor of counting noses and joining a majority.

We dug for money; that was a no-go.
One can neither forgive
nor make a promise to oneself.
It couldn't have been more clear.

The other four are practically independent:
disdain for those who fail to think,
distrust of the contemplative retreat,
a long field trip from the shortest means
to overturn the excessive body count,
lying and cheating in the streets while
the most rarefied thoughts are transformed
into public deeds at a moment of expression
as if they had done it a hundred times before...

There's some arrogance there;
part of him wanted to say,
Why did I do this?
Nearly insensible to pain -
rotted away, a hundred days;
beautiful, insensate precis:
Cro-Magnon in safety.

Wait – I believe in us...
we must look into these matters.
These task, for you and me, is
to make present the standpoints
of those who are absent.

Sunday, December 10, 2006

she

she (and this already becomes fiction, just by virtue of that word)
(and both more and less than a lie to use any other pronoun, too)

she came (look both ways, know your turf, hold your ground)
(india to oakland, she didn't come alone, she came with a friend)

she came to (and how do i know exactly what she intended to do?)
(we had talked on the phone once, and corresponded by e-mail)

she came to see (chuckles jibe taunts fly punches bruise and...)
(maybe she decided the moment she got off the train, maybe not)

she came to see if ('when i wasn't passing as a man or a woman')
(we live by indeterminancy and fake our way through the rest)

she came to see if she ('she-males can suck my cock for free!)
(i told her what i'd heard, she looked at her lover, they listened)

she came to see if she wanted (desires don't disappear in fights
(she could both want to and not want to, both at the same time)

she came to see if she wanted to (put up with this shit anymore?)
(how do words organize past disdain and move into presents?)

she came to see if she wanted to live (and now she's dead, dead)
(how many places and ways she had lived - not regulated, lived)

she came to see if she wanted to live here (i wish she was still)
(a lie on top of a lie, as if a wish could bring back from grave)

she came to see if she wanted to live here with (or by or near?)
(isolated and together, separately collaborate, apart and alive)

she came here to see if she wanted to live here with me.
she wanted to live with she wanted to live if she wanted
(she told me i was brave she told me was brave she was)
to live as she to live as if to live as see to live as wanted.

Wednesday, December 06, 2006

To Manufacture a World

Select and classify;
any other should want an other.

The attendant Holy Ghost will
notify no one of damage,
from fire or wasted nostalgia.

Let the words pass over in your mind,
I miss you.
What would it be
to preserve approximate newness?

Prepare, grind, leach and handle;
We cannot avail ourselves of tedious methods.

Decomposition proceeds still further:
CEOs place flesh to flesh and grain to grain,
as we do.

These requirements want order and perfection,
hold indispensable truth and happiness,
while the whole power of the you
is evoked in the improvement of silence.

Plump, dry, and finish;
There can be as many as you please.

Precious Jewels, Dirty White Cards

Various methods to detect counterfeit homes:
hammer while hot. Likely to discredit?
Introduce an infinite quantity of kerosene.
Coat the outer circle with an amethyst oil,
said to be rare, said to be name, said to be
related, savage and cruel, to the more precious
hieroglyph of insane death. Test its frangible breeze.
Compare Kabul's rain of mass graves to selfish saints of
air force bases where baby angels cavort with boy dealers,
most the time at each others' throats like “call me a
baseball bat, call me a clavicle, call me us together
and we'll walk in the bouganvillia forests of bloodstone
and caterpillar tractors which cover the governor's tracks
with bulldozed confusion.” Outside this deliberate, demented
reverie, a tadpole of the Nile climbs out glass display cases
with prehensile legs, shivers, walks. This Coupon Worth $2!

there is more nothing than real

Grave beds caught their most abundant and characteristic form,
changed completely many times. All I want extends over the limits,
incandescent jets diametrically opposed to internal strains and stresses,

compromise of claw changes while I find
comfort
as an obscene animal on my knees in river gravel.

Suppose many caves preserve skull and tooth
whose black sockets scream, scream,
scream
over the Monterey Bay of beer cans and bullet holes,

where locomotives howl
and all fences affix one second
forever.

there is more nothing than real

Elements of Geology

We favored certain localities.
We got paid on Friday, or not.
Tell me: do vermillion cliffs
or the age of mammals make us
who we are? Go ahead, along
this intricately-dessicated
coast of words, we may find
the difference in effort of
gripping fear, glacial scores,
and granite faces. I'll soon
be nothing, until we understand
better the matter of time.

An Hydraulics Manual

When the water leads up to the mark,
burning is the best known instrument
to verify direct application of real:

I burn, he burns, she burns. We burn.
A stop-watch was sometimes used. And
yet, in the end, only I burn. Don't
jump to conclusions, they say;
it reduces the resultant gift.

He tightens on immersion,
considers the guess,
demonstrates an experiment.

Cameras flash, a rapid staccato
over the large canal.
Suez? India or Spain?
How do we know where we are,
the who and the where of it?

To employ the same principles,
Eric coughs into his shattered hand.
Ian asks, “Let us imagine standing
on the Thames. Will we see 1957?”

A British diplomat returns from Egypt,
secrets in a nuclear briefcase.
Total Area Domination commands high prices.

And this sequential parable remains free,
this ruined series of phrases awaits
your liberty. Advantage to simplicity:
how to choose.

The Theory of Flexure and Strength

Let's go –
you're going to be an extensive investigator.

No one sees what will be, and yet the true strains
are not so large as a place of mystery.

We have taken the available to mean
the impossible. In this deflection, a life

span becomes a fight,
for never before
becomes sure enough.

A view: to commit an inconstancy such as
heretofore never been committed,
say you can have it all.

There is still an other,
and another, another, then...
nothing.

What a feeling! The worst troubles cause
the writer to prefer to strip.

Monday, December 04, 2006

elegy of p.

not an infalliable test by any means
owing to the superior theif
who stole air, farewell
to the waving eucalyptus

vision a real substance,
solitude a cell used thrice.
One breath of electrode coil
steals us of switchblade jumps.

Why don't I tell you
of the unfair uniformity?

I'm trying to save my life.

In the end, conclusions
have gone before
solace and pleas
to enter the room.

Why don't I tell you of
that most excellent and valuable
of household arrangements:
hid out on the front porch.

I wish I had all the time
to explain, to show you
midnight in California
high noon in the lungs.

It's nothing but a shame.

Friday, December 01, 2006

on the lookout

all right, guys, we're here
i haven't seen you in such a long time
no tears, no scenes
if you want to get away
i don't really know the rules
then, i don't have to change
maps, diagrams, and charts
of how we live together.
how do you define this job?
that's your territory
(huge companies accidentally take the field)
let's just have a little word,
just you and me:
huge companies?
they don't actually exist.
have a cheery disposition!

wanted:
the family and the home.
hurry – you won't see
a sincere church wedding,
a cooperative apartment building,
or questions and answers.
instead of acting as
the school and education,
a cautionary tale
seemed responsible
for bravery tests.

Act One: Law and Order.
we had this iguana,
a modern city church.
we decided we needed
a new bravery test.
“i think we should
boil and eat the iguana.”
honest to goodness,
we ate the laws and proclamations.

(Godzilla,
on the other hand
actually does exist.
We were convinced.)

Act Two: Industry and Business.
Again, here's
our nation and our country.
(dead silence)
and then, you'd hear:
“our debt's a werewolf.”
we kept this up for years.
the kids began to dread it.
to apply the law,
we had a full moon
serving summons
(which was wonderful)
but the bill collector
had a car accident,
broke every bone in his face.
from that point on,
we all knew that
the best thing to do was
to safeguard health.
envious and foul disease:
a close race.
(i made sure that
the presidential inauguration
didn't quite catch us
on the path of flames)

it was like,
“we're all gonna die
protecting the community.”

Things to do:
kill me if you want.
kill me, or whatever.
i'm done with this
maintaining law and order.

the silent place

i've never been here -
the silent place,
a sunny altitude
where papa watched the paintings burn

Jesus tiptoed away -
too much blood
circulating in the brain.
i've never been here...

sing the pirate's gospel -
let it enter
the skull cavity.
Jesus tiptoed away...

who all became stupid?
genuises have not always
been particularly careful.
sing the pirate's gospel -

causes of insanity:
blame the sky,
blame the sleepless night;
who all became stupid?

is it the envy?
no, no, no;
i have also observed
causes of insanity.

customs of internal remedies
watch us from above,
excited by insignificant things.
is it the envy?

something's gone awry:
a fully developed madness.
i'll have you know
customs of internal remedies.

count to one, two, three;
what's left?
sunlight and sunbeams?
something's gone awry.

music, make us stop
uses of organ extracts.
the human intelligence:
count to one, two, three.

how will i get here?
rational thinking?
butt collections?
music, make us stop.