Using the effluvium 1. 2. 3. 4.
What rots on the docks, shrouded in the fine late winter mist. What embers glow between the lips of the cursed detective. What small spaces between the floor joists creak the Song of Collapse. What actor played what role and now redacts his own birth certificate.
5. 6. 7. 8.
What stew simmering on the burner in the vacant swampshack galley. What radar sends its signal-feeler deep into the aether of New Jersey. What rotund Congressman fellates in the washroom with his cellphone on vibrate. What faux-wood-veneered speaker’s dais smudged with yesterday’s greasy fingerprints.
9. What frayed cuffs trailing tendrils across the inky ledger. 10. What stet misapplication of convention in the introduction to the closing remarks. 11. What effect the synth used to emulate faulty tape echo unit. 12. What probative value in the lawyer’s cross examination script. 13. What cloister in which the garth and arcade 1 cannot ensconce the disillusioned ex-monks. 14. What radials sponge the freeway of all trace that once a monument marked here as here. 15. What broken wi-fi router your hand-held can no longer find the cold depth of night. 16. What tomorrow meant to the hesitant suicide, ambivalence creeping up the flood-walls. 17. What hangnails and dyspepsia plague the drunken cruise boat captain, distracted before the reef. 18. What slow tokes from the skull-bong 2 brought on, once the brokers left the dormroom. 19. What chance has a seagull got against the federal restriction imposed upon the fast food lobby. 20. What governs the accelerator also determines the parameters of our getaway agenda. 21. What commits the ref to call the foul, fold the towel, would the rule be more general. 22. What water, what gait we trot, what bridge 3 could cross such imaginary rivers with spectral colts. 23. What splint can right the bone we never knew we’d broken. 24. What chamber enfolds the bullet, and which contains the endless possibility of remaining days. 25. What marks upon the paddle name the disobedience of a school system gone feral. 26. What long-held grudge against the home-town hero out for one last night of grand recklessness. 27. What appeals to the marching band’s groupthink in the heat of independence day parading. 28. What water in the gastank means for the grand unified theory of internal combustion. 29. What roads mean to graveyards 4. 30. What entropic clusters of disarray in the arithmetic of laser-guided missiles. 31. What left-overs in the fridge remind the maid of. 32. What tropical drink is left unnamed in the gilded heyday of neon romanticism.
1
What numerology can fix the stars in predictable strictures, enough to spur our hopes for redress.
2
What cost the glory.
3
What foams the beaches into a froth of newscamera orgy, of fierce denials that the clouds collapsed.
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What combination of left and right, plied by the tactical fighter, leaves some space in which to feint.