lily adder & zlatar wolfstonecraft (2002-03)

likely & vagrant

milkweed & spearmint break thru the asphalt
in measured alkali cadence
so hive & hitch
closely similar
we sidle the sidewalks
i like a look of pet-symmetry
in so many words
the shaking of the pendulum
the diameter
graceful & violent
come snigger with me
yesterday, the day before, & the day before that
dear alice b., dear orlowsky
the scarlet strut
deft
& misdunderstood
like an albenian offering
some walk down the street
likely & vagrant


cui bono

my river runs both ways
i'm not fit to be a pianist
the only sense is existence
take it back to the lab, that's what i say

let us consider nonetheless
the experience of it
a meditative cluster of microorgasms
a chief petty officer of one's own self
fond of pigs
& thirteen months pregnant

whose fault is it anyway?
soaked in a sea of tiger balm
could you afford the bias, or was it the other way round?
but philatelically justified

it's in your face
& fallen from the joy basket
but it ain't it
how inconvenient!
i can't even find the ranch key


fragment sixteen

this is this kind of a world
cutely offensive
a game is a game

it's the attitude that counts
and here i am now
tickle my fancy
fake your behavior

but don't get me started
and don't get smart now
ok-art is ok
& the daily challenge of stock situations
we are always almost about to jump up,
you gonna sue me or what

just think of unica zurn*
& of paragraphic competence
i prefer to embezzle things
i prefer to handle last words in bad faith
it is brand loyalty

but no patterns, please!


ultra-tangible

some kingdom of communism
of jungle-concrete
vertical runways
catapulted her into this paradigm

it was all so consubstantial
on record & on reserve
the dust, the hotel
methodically underpinned

sparkled sort of as a subsistence affluence
the disport, the samizdat
oh you might say
highly national

voice-island of an exportess
a no anatomical partisan
carried itself in full lumps
& defiantly contrived

so the self-rightteous emplacement
co-suggestive in itself
surpassed
this dilemma-imbued champion

& none unconflated
the pectoral praxis tested
this an ailing alimony to life


i figure (to george w.)

i figure / the odds - be 50-50 ...
i might just hace sg to say 


bad madam dotty fox

i'm the type who dresses in red on certain days
& in black when i bite
i'm not one of your wee women weaving webs
in abandoned corners
so you better hide

damn your sanitary notions & sanitary pads
i have juices, i have a pungent tang
i have muscles to strangle your pride

i'm a sistah, a molestah
i carry my vulva with musky pride
with thick mohair, hungry and wide
to put your balls to the test

you thin men with your tiny testes
jerking off among the bright graves
of your ancestors / i can lick you -
when- & wherever i want to,
you better hide


you work, i laugh

lo & behold
another set of friends are lost
fallen into the trap of employment-engagement

do i feel sorry for myself 
or for them
it is not the first time
and not the last
yet i go on & proselytize
trying to recruite new disciples ot a lost cause

& while you work, i laugh
for i might not be right
but you are surely wrong
to think it so
for work ain't where it's at
no matter what you seek

unstable uncertainty
it's the very necessary delight
the pay is bad but the hours are right
as i just sit and write

so put on your computer shoes
try to repair your wine-bottle with a bike
& say hi to valium even
if you please
the world ain't mad enough without you
it seems


there's more of it

similia similibus curantur
bad poems are the cure for a bad society
me too, i'm married
his not less impressive
the thing is
an album so finely bound
an art so subtle & cathartic
that's not it
some fool themselves by winning
all those sweeping specificities
& one at that
marry the prof's daughter,
underline everything,
four & three & two & one
sacred delusions of normalcy
there are some people who are too tired to be dishonest
i'm not one of them




let's integrate 
our medicinal dreams of disembling
let's separate
the seperated from the seperate
hyper-gurus can domesticate the apocalyptic increments

oh lapidary love
oh contested denial
pluralize & pulverize the mica & the miasma
as some are tired of waiting for this calcium climate
swarming with akin moguls
so whip-of-will
dispell
the pervasive & the intrinsic
these polymorph microdrips
reputed & loose & tertiary & co-here
& take their cultural square root
for once

but above all,
ensue


there's more to it

let's randomize things a bit:
let's do always as expected
the intelligent washing machine
lions traced under a settee
shipfish
on ship is like another
cattle-tricks
cunning electricity
it all falls apart so nicely
was a trifle aquiline
i could brag about it too
the hypericon is past due
an eclectic hurt
grossly delicate
& to lower the glow:
let's randomize things a bit:
let's do always the same thing


disconcerted meditation

my tantric niece
who are you?
& of how many faces?
four? / or more?
you leave me undangered
of aquatic stereotypes

my cutless confiness
full extrinsic & flagrantly clinical
what do i see in your many eyes?
sg gilttering
umlaut? deictics?

& which one of is said
i was very drunk at the time?
& which one of us will say it next?
i i should be passionately indifferent
a perpetrator
for all i care

or are you the wrong sartorial
the minor ache i seek
do you hear?
my life is light orange-pink
a perpetum immobile
mine of theirs to reenchant


pregnant moment

i rewind, i replay - that moment
again & again
the two of us standing in the doorway
you in a slim bathrobe with wet hair
& i saying good bye

it was raining outside
and behind the door curtain
a amn sleeping
my friend, your boyfriend

there is, there was nothing between us
except for the things that separate
& that pregnant moment ...
... aquamarine & pre-mnemonic

it is true, the words on caravaggio's knife
no hope, no fear
so why do i feel
i will see you again


random haiku

silver naked thrive
particularly unlike
somehow so lean


perfish

more diminished
we while away the smoke-tinted gimmicks
my disconcerned
degree by degree
fresh syntax of negativity
how do you divide by fish
this hedonist poverty
pink in the morning
yello in the evening
like a clandestine redundance
be my sphincter
carefully disarranged
'tis cavalry or calvary
artaud & battaille gallops by
a benzedrine reluctance
or not at all
their semiotic homeopathy


mindsnare

madly driven by a lacklustre compulsion
algorithms lull us into visibility
all bioreligious & written in braille scherzo
the lymphatic melange
like compassion
laconic & precarious

general transgender treachery
we wager mystics & fads
under the pretext of hypocrisy
to reify our labile notoriety
kilocalories & cadences neatly aligned

peristaltic & diagonally-mobile
we move like perpelexed butoh dancers
windward & thru a neon funnel
with foaming goat-songs on our lips
the whole vernacular ordeal
just a figment of your reality


lecher sceptic

kinky innocence
new yak
it haunts the remnants of enlightenment
like the fashion of independence
hustler of the highways of holism
we hide our indiscriminate ecstasy
behind
beliefs dressed up in tight cheongsams
let's the chi-square test on them
our zero hypothesis could be hyacinths & pecan pie
they are appropriately deceptive & neutral
unless you try to milk them the wrong way
& upstaging it all
we are caliban's prolific chinchillas
en bloc or enfilade
our actions
but hypochondrial transgressions

the police of heaven
infragandhi
enforces the law of happy-endings
maintains the sitcom mentality
orange juice with zero sperm count
prognostic sinology
when it begins it ends
better ideas
worse reality
and this our superb political animal
with its sinecure ascetic aesthetics
digs a sicophantic harmony into chaos
my mine
like reference-drained pronouns
the lily ozone-mongers
the guess is habitual
the sorcery smile-strained


death or dandelions

pneumonia makes you fat
kitsch is good for digestion
a certain angle of the legs
it seems radically unclear
the niobean
what's doing in the night
some rehydrate
some sentimental
some folly
but don't you believe your subconscious
like power soup
& advertising the american dream
a man posing as a woman posing as a man
the eyelock's weak
the insult befitting
the recoil unaccentuated

life is not particularly stylish


luminary archive of high-toned & afflicted inadequacy

under & with
the gneiss, the zits
ditto
obfuscation of freon gadgets
attenuated
they sure know how to live
assumptions or insinuations
an incessant molar palaver
yours sinfully
it's so coy to co-own
the punt
thus we chide and scoff at
for good
like the viscous ooil of mid-afternoon
it's a lean reign
without much passion but with some curiosity


pertaining to irrelevance

before it becomes allegorical
the reply is remediate
suite yourself

too slightly
if it cannot be circumvented
paralegally speaking

cloning reflexes sharpen
against the balsa bark
disclaimer of the superwise

relatively grey
lush murmur of learning
the support of involuntary apprentices

and now / pertaining to irrelevance

devoid of concealment options
the asymptotyc prevalence
piteously transfinite


anecdotal ontology

imperfect lavender prejudice
35 porcelain ducks in the water
closet, i can see the modesty-
members of presumptuous normatives
she can hear their subversive glands schmoozing
asian wife
naked insignificant lunch
the history of heat
                    opportunistically unabridged
massive afro-hungarian metaphysics
dislodged & unpicked
a norton anthology
are you not finding your place?
among slouching curtains, disorderly carpets
iago rearranging kafka - off the record & on the shelf
with a nonchalant fury
many of us are already wearing our asigned BE YOURSELF t-shirts


LATE(R) EDITION

tender & terribel
justified left & right
the mimicry smoothes

accuracy looks awkward
but a bit unvigilant
a new sort of all/manhattan duck & cover

please contact us
if you are ill or would like to remain so 

law of large numbers
friends of the opera
for all the wrong reasons

the 13 virtues
performative as words
economy of fear

today's special
applied mythology
or your very own zen GPS system


general details

spring is the toughest season
for obligations
productive cough
too much inspiration
premature autopsy
i hesitate

fresh sprouts of grass
in the setting silvery light
the misplaced wolfshame
insubstantial

oh knave
nonvoter
well-memoried nursery rhyme
air-mud flickers in the night
ladle in cyanide

exploits overlap in broad daylight
ensconced in non-compliance
the resourcefulness
an extreme folk music

and while internal borders broaden
the distraught mosaic of our enamoured sleves
attests
that without spring we are the same
but with spring we are different


prelude to a theory

just why should i?
write

anything at all

when:
there are friends to visit
sex to have
pot to smoke
tv to watch

had you
none of these, or others
& no inclinatoin to indulge in them
i'd say you might
as well write

and (had you
self-contol, ambition, & lack of
self-confidence
to egg you on to the maze of blank pages)
you should

and should you
wish to leave a message
please do so, right
after the beep


anti-demagogy

from peculiar to particular
intricacy decongests itself

he was a dentist & hair-dresser
on her own accord
gelding the minor gods
no subagent
no smirk on his face
pragmatic all the way to semantic aberration

somewhere, infallible as slush
gel of a memory runs
leaving a trail of attrition
a new green stain

another esoteric childdeath
but no match for the clean stationary
that records it

i loathe them
if i care to
loathe to reinforce the postscript, the introduction

but i rave reader ...
billie was a bilingual recluse
of considerable recidivist renown
with an unwexing mood & lodestoned cigars
billie-sue ro billie-joe
but objectified

the escudo is down
entrancement is in
and the gaols are full
another 24-hour pharmacy

lazy as concrete
i dream of vegetable statues
& wait for the floating opera to pass


next-person narrative

the firmament
above dramatically incorrect
a siege or an eddy
a telescopic vanity
give us more anarchist institutes!
a gecco itch,
slogans with or without bristles
58's my number
58's my name
and the lawn's so stylish
right unreal
it just begs a supine jumpstart
behind the highstrung disobediance
your eyes are like a typewriter


on sitting down to write / one decides to masturbate instead

mad poets of late capitalism
what have we left
but putrid pools of the irrational
issue sessions
toxic taxonomy
and if it don't fit
you can derange, you can retard
you can object to the lacustrine
shine
and throw your tantric tantrums
it's the revenge of the mutants
eventail, intersoup
vegemite penitence
laser-ventilation viola
welcome to the anti-social club
inside outside art
you can prepare your very own philosophical shopping list


monkey love

green olives, fresh tomatoes, & mozarella on the table
you eat them, naked
& i watch you with double desire
a bottle of red wine between us

your smile is my peace
carefree, gypsies of the road, of the floor
you drive on when i would stop,
thank you ...

you let me
you let me see
anew or thru our faults
you let me see you pee

a friend, a lover, & a sister
as i am to you too
that's all i wanted to say
oh yeah, and that
i'm finding myself as i found you


on offal

there is little on offal
it is only for the poor
of wealth & taste
& not for the erudite
it is not a typical academic subject
the gizzards, the brain, the kidney, the tripe

and neither is charles bukowski
for he drinks & smells
he swears & doesn't smile
he's not cordon bleu or filet mignon
but rather a social bile

oh the analogy might be imperfect
& lacking in purity of any kind
but never mind
it's still telling that the culinary arts
just like the social sciences
prefer to ignore the innards


spiral exit

blinding pink light
deters you
it's an unploughed thing
encaustic sound trapped in a circus tent
draped in pulsing lime colors
neo-tribal pariahs celebrate
their exclusion in
stenuous self-induced cadences
robotic-, rag-, & spring-puppets
shake their tattoo-earringed, their dread
locks, their disproportionate 
love, the moon is ready to howl
into the feverfull dawn
thru the smoke & drum beat
pose & poise fight
for their innate right - to intermarry

we make sure we feel good when we have nothing better to do


urban pastoral

people all over the world
sit around in neighborhood cafes,
pubs
sipping their tea, drinking their beer etc.
talking about friends
discussing the weather, sports, politics
doing & getting their bit of social grooming

the pace is casual
the room dim or smoke-filled
flies abound

thus derelicts, thinkers & other simple men congregate daily
their uneager tacitness
mocking the sg else out there


like a simile

sg common in raoul julia & jean reno is staring at you
stapling together the ligaments at their very edges or
at the center

the calendar is overcast with humanities papers while
california crashes softly against its avocado dashboard
in the beige background summoning behind itself dearth
& deftness & buffet-style tan selection

it's a standard numismatic precaution that hardly 
requires expertise or the doubt of identification

with transatlantic lucidity
we prepare elaborate plans in the manner of the late
ramanujan for their abandonment by bootstrapping but
keen thought-possums chew their way thru the linear
inquiry distracting the mock aggression & leaving an
underbrush of contradictory interpretations
to be sorted out
by the chief of imagination & neutralization services

he is the most smartests in the office
& has a regular & dashing squint in the eye

velvet wallpaper in your head
flowers & cramp in your hand
the wet paraphrasings are but a daycare workshop in reality

it's an exquisite renaissance for social discomfort
there is nothing to upstand or disembark from


i get thoughts

for too long such so now a bit
quite unlike cetainlly of i guess
for example otherwise an amount less delicate than ambition
also somewhat i don't with escape
green and upon fresh dragon levels
acute a best can as stoic in suits
why damn ideal is keep about range scope slightly effect
beyong thru justifying
unlike pink today my blood theories succinct
reconfirm how ask ruins loud similarly
of & for is rented feels
holiday secondly enough completely writing gendered
westernized all for attitude work money act chain
twins of then not to eat & eager definite
news motives bottle asset details lot
degree been last self-bridge was is
taste travel make concept stick get
technique let such typical
features tell arrivals allow people able
company crazy apparently distance
seriously requires ways
easy natural cruel excuses shaven
accent extent
improved conservation honors fall correctly durable
safe hilton surprise muscles
desert colors stretch vast buildings
alive from same of the rougher parts
or the usual retired penchant for idle design
there are always many more things to be ignorant about


untenable

palimpsest emotions flutter in the shallow gusts of the world
a statutory wink here & there
we move about, paraphrased
like drunken moles & injured rats
huddled together or preoccupied
and sometimes it's interrupted ordeal
but only to the detriment of applied boredom
there is no madness here
the air is scorching clean
rigorous contradictions circumnavigate the grey humidity
come see the vivid multi-task passivity
architectural mimicry confounds the pallid history
then sy does sg or dreams of a young premed
of either sex
in the gasping contractions of the social contract
we know our job
the many ways to mend the maze


lite distractions

sorry, no yoghurt
music is provided by dj deject
or anyone else
neon police pillow
you can expect the accepted
me no
permanent bronze medal for illustrious stress
their are seismic diaphragms to overhaul
in a manner of speaking
in a tacitly conspicuous dialect
i am beginning to snow
and further on
shearwater eyes the demure scum
please display some public affection
proverbial custodian of corruption
in the cultural moat
it's prayer time first and then comes the action movie


in fact, in vain

i'm too speed
i don't show up
i can prove but not explain
my house without walls or roof
as if my stepparents had visited me
do you accept fake credit cards?
i don't know things, i only remember
them
my bag of tricks
i'm etched against or i imply
siphoned thru or buffered by
export my laziness
round & clear - at will
the hobby-horse ran away with me


metapoem

an interwoven somewhat
lemon light, penguin dust
comma cont. on
p127
arpeggio of years
one, or two, or none
lice in heaven
skirts annotated by the wind
in distrust of merits
in lieu of the lyre
just as soon, or not at all
toy shit
exaggerated shirt


self-restraint

the inflaction surged
it was time to unwrinkle your claves
& i sang nimbly
with flamingo-hair covered throat
& with a mind like a crowded bus
while the eaves of dismay rust & plumet
into an endless unannoyed pursuit,
some bigold,
an affiliated notion, self or impact
deceptively adjacent
i am & of perpendicular disposition
intractably whittled
down to a medow of joyous anomaly
with spotless disaffection & with a voluntary frown
the compass neddle in full swing:

why, those who think you are clever
you can thank that it doesn't matter


miscellaneous poem

constellation of
molecular nijinsky 

in the microwave darkness
grey as it is to admit
tentatively
for sake of clarity

the horizon tilts so nicely
have you called your beautician yet?
cognac & dictionary
sg like that

depleted
merely a question of details
with opaque diligence & meek prejudice
were you cold? – i slept instead.

hormonally yours & symmetrical like a hyena
where i end it (mutatis mutandis)
‘s diminutive

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