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VOZA HIKU - 2 M I S T E R H AY ’ S T R I P P Y M O E B I U S - 3 O N E PA R T WAT E R - 4 M ATCHBOOK DAYS - 5 DON QUIXOTIC - 7 ST ILL MORN IN G - 8 NOISE - 9 SLOP CODA F O R A PARTMENT 1E - 10 GU M WRAPPER - 14 V I O L ATED OVAL: A Conversation with Orion - 15 A NIGHT O F TOWN - 16 T H E G I L D E D R AT - 20 NOISE - 22 T W O Z E R O Z E R O ZERO - 23 SNAPSHOT - 24 EAGLE HAS E Y E O N ME - 25 U N T I L T H E F E AT H E R E N D O F H E AVEN - 27 SELF-PORTRAIT - 29 PUPPET CHILD - 30 A JIG GER OF SALVE - 31 IN PERIPHERY OF DESPERATE VAMPIRES - 32 KAH OUTEK - 34 NOISE - 35 S U B L I M I N A L PUPPY - 36 B U T T E R F LY ROADKILL - 37 9 OUT O F 10 - 38 T H I S I S M Y M O U S TACHE - 39 PO’T - 44
VOZA HIKU
to hear what i see hin hih hum hih vy tih twum to see what i hear
M I S T E R H AY ’ S T R I P P Y M O E B I U S
where could we be - if music is goldy thoobras and chappy quick...how tubely to instill one’s beer upon a whole denegration...royal lefty slowpoke disintegration...there... I use her again - I am so “the loudmouth” inside m’lips I screamer - with intensity groiled over kingdom weedless...necessary spoily brats unalcoholy criks...bending they ear huss... such a I - such a town without city...who took middle a-WHORE-rica and dumped all over here? who wasted a cab ride onna rusted hour, creeping promised landing... Ahoy yu -rátz o’ P’nis,
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d o n ’t follow me until your darkness shuffles off wit’ yu...was a fan of krazy glue til I saw what I was stuck to...decided forever was too long to be the sucky on you - and you...IS THAT YOU REAL YOU HAY-UH? S’THAT WHUT YOU CALL HAIR? HEY MISTER, YOU CALLIN’ NOW! YOU, YOU...S’THAT YOU S’THAT REAL JUST MOP!!! flopped over trunkyard gristle...S’THAT YO REEAAL? YO HAY-YUH...MISTUH MISTUH HAY! smokes me an “o”pera I can’t de-fuse...3 stooged millicent...magnicat of 3 cents...turmoil over pennies none of ‘em gonna fill you food BOY... once changed my name...to stand out... after I stood...forgot who I was...
O N E PA R T WAT E R
The most diluted forms of stress emerge from the tiniest jacks of panic! Loaded onto the planetary session: the following conniption... I was strained to the height of my most porous refusal and discovered only that my joyous corrosion was mental subfusion! I found the most intense denial was jelly in my prime-hole...my ape was catching butterflies for me before I could stomach the flight of their winged snackery! Whoring doring over...D’ord or norving noshes at the nerve! I gritted grout against the grab, while nervous ching-pots nailed the nab!
M ATCHBOOK DAY S
There is a rage that runs through the core of these days. Little gets stomped on with kicked rashabout, with terrible treatment - before me, it grows the thing is bad and it grows. Where was our ignited past, love? How did bad grow over all so small? What is small? Buildings and world. What is big? People. There is a wrong that grows over people. As it gets older it becomes badness or vision... ...what I saw came from what I was ...what began wasn’t what I thought it would be The bad to deal with is around me, I step around as it engulfs me, & still I find no one road away, it’s all away all to me. If this week had children they’d crawl to me with open eyeteeth staring, looking the giver in the for. If this week had legs I’d be gangrene, finding the end in freshly severed nerves. Emotion is tastiest after rot, I’m telling you...this week had me. ...
I grew out of its shell until it swallowed me controlling this I I had...I swore, I’d never lose myself like that again. I became impatient...all raw, no wrong. I let this week take me in its sights - lower it’s suck - screw it’s scramble - and fire... BAM ! In the brain - ii’s massage lessage corner - loo’ver left LAMN! & right damn...NIGHT... is a call to a long walk, especially in this city puddles catch these steps - each mirror cracked to the core. I heard badness is in retrograde revolution, motion as wrongful life. There is a wrongful life, up ahead walking, in steps of stasis. Unmoving steps, uncaring snake children that dare invade benign fullfillment razed on shores of urban nightfall. Where is the sweetness of your wrongful life? How is mine d i ff e rent, love? Where does sorrow hide you, once I’ve found the match to burn? Where was our ignited past, love? How did bad grow over all so small? What is small? Buildings and world. What is big? We are.
DON QUIXOTIC Where I’m going In the how that goes it Breaks down Websizes Cap - Battle For Sensory Java I am again and once amore...in need of where I am where...or what I am once...again. This turn is tiring leafless breeze, caught for all who catch such things of unnecessary beaut or not, am I to spill, once amore, this addled breeze against the turn I know so well - how crass to assume one turn all your days - how easy to claim one catch - where there are so many in wait of this limbo is ironic in it’s pull - how irony enters direction in my force towards ground, is broken side, my frozen tincture albino gyron - inscapable quirn amusing revolution broken shoulder faces ground once amore before colliding, it turns again - how again I am at all this how certain this tale is sure to end on laughter - only quixode is where I’m going
Addicted No-Brainer Addles up To Mono-Ruiner Flight is Wingless In SeeTime
STILL MORNIN G
"This one's ready to go!" Callous inebriate, god, say it so sallow, membrane inventer, this ticket to go, on sail, the beams of copper still, rays of morning. Callow inveterate p ro v i d e r, inventer of needless concession to still, so hallow, be morning this ray thicket, breasted steep coil ascsension, down...rest...die...slow...down, under yellow wood, pieced stickled, stalk, winsome butt molded inject, tepid trall, willow walk crawl, cobble here, red painfly, grey quick here, very quick very, this one will go, go, and...and...and... and...and...rest pigeon, down, in the sun... legs pigeon, into the sun... and to morning, still morning and morning and morning and morning still morning still morning and the sun looks to swoop, looks to take into arms, her smoken ash still, into bundle, and I talk to the sun, I look into the sun, she says, "Curl and fold your wings in."
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SLOP CODA F O R A PARTMENT 1E
Bagola Holy Ala cinchtag sucker for a dusty hambeen assbone, I be faster on the draw than thee...time to flee! After fifteen years, my walls confess underneath the mess hey look, a dress! Another J’a ta-doom, ta doodle hey look, a floor! I walked on all, and my rags were my hands are 3-foot deep, caked shake-pit sheik, Papa rose a raze-pillar said: We’re too young in a lack-of-life way...not a good or bad way - it’s a don’t know unexplaingeable, so sez Papa who’s a supa notta papa, just a nut-case for the invented to study and pillage, goose-like in a purr, a shillow...a prrrrrillow (Mama fainted nightly). Meantime, Jamato’s Man grooks through it all right, ripplin’ into the crissle hang hungrin’ for threads in the plastic black night, a quiet 3-ply feel...what’s this?...as he rugs a quilt for a bo-head copper...nope, it’s all there! Hefty civilized but dusty all the same. Moonlight brings me out a day early—get up, brak my ay’lak-arm and...do it, before the G-Man...GO! YAP! yellow cord, lean posse-bean...satchel UP! Another day-glow burns...move ‘em OUT! Preternatural Hy acinths ( tie it up tight...SCROONCH ! ) Crustle pick a Doodlelion ...
( second flight...BOOMPH ! ) Cellaphonal-atrophy ( first landing...SHOOMPH ! ) Gathers up a r iff ( and the street says...WHOOMPH ! ...which is hello in street language ) My, My...Lookit all’em shiny bellies sittin’ tall an’ proud for Papa! In this one a lovable channel-lopial bigs a Love Boat sailing on repeat T.V. snow WHOAH sees land - tad to Mister Songtime (5:30 Shump). That one, though... if I bump it up along Triggeration Alley - I can stay the age we all so looking for. See you by the stardust! (7:30 Truck) Kinda leans funny though, you gotta prop it up. We all wanna fly, be the wrinkled cape superheroes cruise on. Never crease a mountain chain ‘til the hope burns to the touch. But G-Man be our hero! G ro u n d . . .Arms...Reach...have you seen? Pulls over - Counts your blessings. Puts’em in - Rubber necks a happy accident. SCROONCHIN’-IT-UP! All over the world! Gets over - Has a good time...demeaning-Mis Felonious and Satial Flying Global Folly Flacid Mogul...kinda leans funny - MA man! Yodeletto Spliffs kickstart a dust storm on an ocean of pennies... and in a way, that’s the way it is. Bring it out to see the bottom, throw it out to get it back. Throw out my life to get it back, my street bends...back, says: I’m gonna miss you Four-Eyes! Say, maybe over time...but not in this life - time - I mean, oh...you might? Well...that’s a good time we had! Watch me...would you? ...
Guardian over Cyrus 3-Headed Cypria mangeing by the window sill...hairball is conundrum to Garbage Lord - seer of what’s to be and not in cycles - but re. Hills demolized my floor... familiar fake woody, two feet - below my feet... sock-hole revelation! A sideways glance to Pastor Plaster grabbing barely by the hang of his rib-red-knuckle-sag. Asbestos waterfall, frozen drip. My salvation was many nights by the shade of this kingdom. My Paris, on the Lower East Side...a lighthouse to demolition. (It is true...the beacon plans to swipe and scavenge what little light there is at dawn.) And now a little nice-ness for all the young and lost whats and anyways in apartment 1E: hello little ripple-shine nightness - shimmer for a glim-thing? my you’re such a young-thing...la-la when she feeds you, la-la-ing to the end
(halloo halloo...I’m over by yer shoe!) You misplace time before you lose it. (hulloh, hulloh...I’m over by yer toe!) You make more space to misplace time in. You stand before a sea of open bellies...each mouth, hungry, eager... You lasso the little dearies, stretchin’ for a feel, and stand slicker deep in it...there it is... And so I find what I had to get rid of anyway: First Discovery - goodbye! First Purchase, First Independance - gone! First Hour of Solitary Sleep Rub, First of ALL of ITS - go! ...
You look around - and say - you’ll never Ever again, but You do - hard - to not - do what You know...you know? My apartment is in the street now. In 40 garbage bags and I wait and guard my past so no one breaks in and scatters me all over and what I did 10 years ago and what I was last summer and I guard with all my might my life to throw so I can...go HURRY UP G-MAN COME ON AND TAKE MY LIFE AWAY HURRY UP G-MAN PICK IT UP SO I CAN GET AWAY COME ON WITH YOUR...BIG STRONG HANDS COME ON WITH YOUR...CHUCK-A-CHUCK TRUCK, MAN HURRY UP TAKE MY LIFE AWAY HURRY UP SO I CAN GET AWAY I DON’T HAVE ALL DAY TO STAY AND WONDER IF I’M THROWING THE WRONG THING AWAY
GUM WRAPPER
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V I O L ATED OVAL: A Conversatio n with Orion
-How’s it goin’? Ah...I lost my pad -How? I got kicked out -When? After a 9-month seclusion By a momentary secretion I’m a yolk, see I realized I’m a constant egg And no incubator exists to hatch me I’ve just realized that And I’m happy that I’ve realized that No daddy exists To lay his rump on me To allow my rupture I’m an unfertilized egg, totally content I’m always in here Never worried about Feeling its scrawny neck Out the hole of my crack I’m never to BE cracked There exists no ax or hatchery With the power to perform this Greybeard Shylock Me & Ginsberg I’m an elephant with tusks From here to Ginsburg A Rhinocerous A One-Horned Shylock A Unicorn for Ginsberg Or perhaps just a eunuch -O.K, See ya later... Whether I see you or not Is irrelevant I may choose to speak You may choose to ignore me I’m happy with this arrangement
A NIGHT O F T O W N
I know something about the village, about the Jenny-Pump Punks an’ J o e s that pick each scab of nightblossom’s bloodgut barrio hotsuit chow chowder...fine...fine...tonight I’m Sargeant Fun! Two for One... until you pass out, happy heads at the Radio Bar. Waves awash offa trendy avenue fading, sometimes...you know how it is... I wanna go where I can steal for two hours, another night of firsts from somebody. I am witness to meca-nico miasma...it is Demonator Hexican Faceless , who fears the narrow san’certina ‘tweener legs, who once was reared above a whisper, now Motro vows, how things go sour once happy hour keeps on tickin’. Boys in Go-To w n take a lickin’ won’t believe the end is near. With mucho Maestro machoneering everything’s young, in the marbled guise of sorrow-mia. In the shiny time of why-light, stoked in cerebella... Motro Morto sans le Carryoutta—blanche maligna...sez:
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Gotta fly this bladder by and by... his mirror waging private war wit’all’em sores reflecting boozers choosy losers, Spanish-Fly Ho’s. Her raging planet plays at midnight... something ‘bout the city I knows. Angry loot, abounds the cuted booty feminooserounds the girls. G l a d d e r- P l y has found his muse in lipstick cumberbunding curls. ‘Scara Corset Lounge Pin-Jack Freddy & Able—blind girl decked in abondanza hankies...honkin’ out a loudsmoke samba. Cursed in sorry walks her flight...along the cracked reflection of another sorry night of town. Lip nuzzle in the ear offa dark corner lit by an exit sign only I can see. A private tongue solo, mistletoein’ wayward lance—a heart stab only I am privy to...lust by light of exit night—another first...gone. Trans-Genderfly WheatGerminater, lit by user-friendly bong...blaring Top 40 in the no-passing lane, on the way to Lady John. Away from all the Mojo Cats she checks her balls—inside the stall. This is where her outfit works, where roots hold up...got another muse from another mirror. Fed, cooked, ate it, like the mole on her face, buried in candy & carnage.
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Chassis macabre whistling copycat mañanas. Stowaway ravers on the lower E, or just t o w n d o w n e r s raging time—stoned on split division...fine, fine, Matchine...the FULL package. perhaps some nights, I see what it is to enter the heart offa heavy sigh...to stroll in its skin, and lose mine, for the high offa momentary penetration Sometimes I, maybe...swishin’ onna shooting-jack fluorescent missionary, mon possession of le brainwave... ...my layward lancey fence picks up static—second, no—firsting in a whisper...see... I long for this ploy stenched in paradismos sailing battleship in limbo—I leave this place... and attack the night. I settle in a cavern mucaceous...my fingers, pubal bowels... mastication forgiveness gimps and shining... in the dark ear of another corner, I stand in morsheous involvement... stealing seconds in the loud smoke. someone invented by those that want to invent someone—when it wants creation needs the want more than creation Twisted rock rolling by dank of hand. Hallucinating strangers in your eyes tattoo flies her back...awaiting chrysalis emergence from spread arm sacrilege—fly blunder blue exstoda repose... my coat...anuzzlin’ onna smoked floor...tonight—the band is tight. ...
Tobaccy fill, sweat, grust and mildew manwich. Egg casino cello-casing female Saskwatch— long ago, the edges frayed...a romp, in Corset party lights to tighten the reins ala me lumbago-corso-coronanza bottle neck rolling figurine, boombox tango blasting onstage...maybe I am thief to night hallucinando triste...maybe I am exit sign illuminosing monstro...maybe I am rasputina mask-aminos...riding...fighting...for another night of town.
T H E G I L D E D R AT
I’ve given all my years to see if you would see me was not my purpose, I could care less—yet never did you say you did—I know you did... I may have giant bones but I still crumble. I look at it this way—you turned your ear burnt to what I wrecked, in my stance I give you fantastic sagebrush to call your home. I stride between two worlds, I call you out. There is happiness in the perspiration of exposing a fakir. Scintillating the diddy as exclusive dinosaur to this party... I know what you see! There is one more world in my head—as I crawl, bitter is the bite bit first. When others had nothing—I had my mind to feed from. It smiles in me, what you see is the remains of that journey—as I was something of a legend once. I sustained myself on the juices of a different hold. There are theories, on my part, where I’d reduce my thought to it’s absolute previousness thereby functioning as a sort of—Gilded Rat for the populace... in my grip—I held the masses!
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Ahhh, but the glory robe has faded, so much bee manure. My fingers are dry now still large and strong but dry. What they hold now—is air. My lungs are strong with this air—it guides the origin of joy to its release—recalls who was kind—those who came to me when others stayed away—this is why I talk to you. I look at it this way—I am still strong, in mind—the air I get...maintains my whimsy. There are those—who I feel, have conspired against, what I represent... it is my size they fear. I will tell you this—I say they are ninnies! You—I feel I can smile at you. We live in our minds, you and I. Perhaps we can... be each other... pretend we know each other... only we will know... pretend only.
my uncle martin took this photo, i see a baby spiderboy in that shadow shape on the big leaf, but that’s just me...uncle martin lives in west virginia now but right after my father died, his family lived near us in the bronx...he’d take me to his wedding photographer jobs as nephew-assistant-photographer...i felt very important as he’d ask me to hold the flash on a table of smiling relatives, ‘cuz then...we’d get to sit at our own special photographers’ table and i could eat what everybody else ate, even the kids...uncle martin was like a boricua benny hill with all kinda jokes about farting and puns on top of puns...he was always on, i mean always....it was probably hard to live with someone who saw everything as an opening to a punch line...but his delivery made it worth the wait, he had great timing...uncle martin got me my first camera and tape recorder and made me realize there was another way of looking at the world...i’ve lost contact with him which is why I wanted to include this photo...as a reminder to the wonder he instilled in me...to look at life with a gleam in your eye...thanks uncle martin
TWO ZERO ZERO ZERO
Always one will stop quick when one is on go Always one will force one into one immediate with crash Always doom will impend itself into one soon as it gets chance Fluid motion is traffic gathering speed until one will always stop in front forcing doom into its travel Into one, doom will always know its travel Nothing impedes impending only stop only ending is small ending is imp Others will die in this crash not I, I am imp Ending doom I am small I stop doom I tease its little horn into trumpetola Flooring out the maxi-doomers 90 past 50 Always I am one who will go past go
SNAPSHOT
we lay on the grass to get a better shot the grass has bugs that prick us we itch from the encounter remember to be careful next time grass reminds us to not lay on grass next time there is no next time grass sees to that we weren’t meant to snapshoot the sheep just let them be let us be...we are only trying to be we come up against fence only natural to want to bust through not natural to bust through bred to live within fence we make our own fence what we expect what to do how we do it who we let in to help us do it how our grass is maintained what bugs are in our grass to keep out spectators we make our own fence
strong - barbed - permeable - defensive we may let you try to break our fence would someone in my herd greet you to force you to go back to fix this break to determine what I am...I’ve learned to not have my picture taken by tourists like you the lines you blur have been set in stone I once let you lay on my grass
EAGLE HAS E Y E O N M E
it is broken trees and tops I need to rest on broken backs and unmade beds laid shattered scratted across my broken bones my splintered size of soft ravines along a shallow rise of heat my cindered wings that stretch that find me meat along across my balded eagle gaze I’ll see the moon in sunlight see the islands’ island lie the lie behind of mountaintops I’ll see the tree before it’s there I’ll see - the wings - the catch - the air - my momentary swoop at you before you’re through with what you view I’ll see the bones that told on you - break you - beak you osprey risen salt in quartz - I crystalline your face of sand and shadow higher peaks - I whisper worlds above you - try and find my swoop in you and your visit to my air... was it what you expected could I have been a better host? ...
was everything the way you left it did I look at you straight sideways - lost prey? do you mind that I don’t visit that I choose to stay here? feel free to disagree, but don’t you find my home serene? excuse me - I’d offer you more but I have to grab ahold of this draft - to hang even higher than when I first saw you - when you first arrived at my air - this draft of sun do you have this where you come from?
U N T I L T H E F E AT H E R E N D O F H E AVEN
The child has her eyes It has the father’s owls Feathered hunt Joe Deather Seapocks awailin’ in the willory But her stare - just a Hi...from the deader’s hold Childero gallanceer Sweet raven chapter of my youth My hair was a peacock in heaven for you, a wild palamino with parents of plume Sweet natured and distant - this one is tarrow slim vulgar - this one bequeathes a solvent mare - my hair holds your gaze, my skin - your stare...this one’s gone This one has your child your face - twinner Dark, thyner - mare finder in the hailbry Follow in the whisss, I wildew where the wasn’t hollow Where I hel and held and stared at glass Poe’wd’ered pink stale paler still neckless...my t’will resin shifting quills against against - my hand - held f ro z e Against my hold I play inside this picture falling face flance an’ scrope I cry against bitterbit flawless features, the color of my room
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I find my locks in my shouldering death my father in my size - the child has the hoofs of a falcon Were I heaven surprised I’d have gutted a raven, left a trail for your eyes - wise rocks they are cinder...and I Am I what you leave as you fall from the sky
SELF-PORTRAIT
Lightning flash Queries the distance Landscape of punctuation
Exclam A point in nature Hyphenate - a cloud
Verbs Followed by adverbs Conjugate the scenery
Take a walk - hide Your photo waits On a faraway hillside
Can’t - at a cobble After some time Squelch - at an alledine print
Go ahead Run travel photogate It ain’t there
But isn’t able What comes back When able ain’t
PUPPET CHILD
Child of crooked kerm i t Child of toupee ernie Child o f oscar bl a n k e t Child o f muppet texture Child o f big bird troj a n Child o f insubordinate gesture Child of prehensile grip Of di g i tal crab Of rear entry Of hand insi d e Up hole Of back Child of leg-man i p u l a t e Cho wder-puff pissant child Of purple ext inc t i o n Of lambchop Of gr o uchard garbag e -mu f f Of poppyseed avenue con k Of cracked monst e r Of cornflake han d - b u t t Child o f toy Of tube Of boob Of thro wn - voice N i g h t - f l esh Hol l o w -green gang D r eams of o wn hand Child’s o wn h an d Is Child’s own toy Only toy Only puppet Child’s puppe t Child fingers Private puppe t Own puppet Feels good when you move your mo u t h
A JIGGER OF SALV E
(We open on a couple, enjoying each other's extravagant sup:)
-Ah, my little piece of wild chomp, my hunkering sore, my festering swill of desire...pass me the squid, please?... -Here ya go, my liver-leaned wreckless one, ma choice chintzy, my oblong waterhead of Nefertiti...while ya-at it, hand me the boil...eh?... -Oh certainly, my chortled phlegm of libidinous desire, my chunkering willow that laughs hortily at hortencious portals of pretense...say...would you throw me the salt? A jigger of salve?...eh... -Here ya grabb it! My dangerously joweled one... would that I could sifle a treasure inept in it's solitude... (At this, they pour cream over soy, coyly:)
-...you see...I once welched on rare-bit truffle of chomp... -THAT TRIFLE WITH A WICKERY SVELTE!?! -(nodding)...who teatly desired a riserous claim...only to have it clitted safely to my underpants...why...this fork has a warmly fettered aorta! Is there more salve for my jabbing crack of wicker-waw?...eh?... -HERE YA GO!(grunt) My chicky-poo of throb(!grunt) Twiggle that lust with LIBERTY(grunt!) BLEAT PUSSING MORALITY!... Truss-Blithering-Blot...BLEAT!!! -BAAAAPERHAPSBAAAAFOR USBAAAATHERE IS NO SUPPY!!! -AH, commendable, for there IS no wine...(yawn)... ...hohhhh, but I swagger...roll me a swigger...would you?... (At this, they disnude rudely...foodly...cuuddly...)
IN PERIPH ERY OF DESPERATE VA M P I R E S
two people sitting on the same side of the table, share a meal sitting on the same side they look at each other only at night two people spend the entire day walking, side by side talking, side by side eating, side by side sharing their life without so much as a glance at night they make love, in periphery to what remains of the day sun litters shadow leaving night to pick up trash sun and moon never see each other travel the heavens side by side the moment they do they obscure each other eclipse surrounding halo side by side half glassed - incomplete what’s heavenly is just a hole ...
two people see each other and see a hole, aligned to be each other’s hole, they team up and they are hole “We are whole” “No, we are A hole” the alignment of A holes a glow for peripheral halos
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o Kahoutek I can barely pronounce you, I love you! What are you but some comet streaking the sky every 80 years driving us crazy with apprehension, “Gonna see you! Gonna miss you! Too dark! Wrong position!� I love you and all your confusion! More confusing than any lover...maybe not! What are you but some crazy streak, flashing in then out of my heart...you never call me, you never see me, you big beautiful ball of fire...you drive me crazy, coming then going. I can barely stand you, I love you. I wish we were together...so I could break up with you! I wish we were...but I can't wait that long.
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SUBLIMINAL PUPPY
that cloud looks like a bunny that cloud looks like a belt buckle holding up pants of sky - oops they slip those clouds look like the alpha-Butt those clouds spell out anti-God message and evil this record played backwards has anti-Jesus message that static between grooves is a signal to earth devils to unfaithful pigsters and evil that ad has a message in the ice cubes about a polar bear and a naked woman and evil hold it to the light hold it up against the sky against the message for No God if you put the message for No Jesus you get a message about a puppy dog and cute put all the messages against each other and play evil music backwards you get a puppy song and cute a puppy will arrive against a backdrop of evil when you least expect it but don’t put two puppies next to each other they cancel each other out they kill each other and evil you will kill puppies when you look at bunnies for too long
B U T T E R F LY R O A D K I L L
2 wings 1 flapping
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Do You Get Bored Easil-Is It Hard For You To Keep Your Concen-Try To Focus For More Than 2 Se-Cause Now There’s With New Improved “DON’t” Even Have To Worry Bout Life Being Too Shhhh---.
*Note: The Moustache Principle: The Obvious Stated Deeply ( for best results the poem should be overperformed )
THIS IS MY MOUSTACHE (for Moustache Poets* everywhere with a wink to Pete Spiro & Reggie Gaines) (**) (***)
Father lay below...and...with a voice...he spoke: "My son, my little male boy, my not-daughter, my child with penis...or shall I say...son. Look not, into the vast large empty abyss...for it is nothing! Life is...not being dead, for we live, finally we, each, all of us...at the end of it...YES...(sigh) I am tired and drowsy with sleep." His words remain...until they leave. I pause and stop to think, in the tree of my branch and look not to the new day...old, no longer... for through my eyes...I see you looking at me...
( pace very slowly across stage as if plodding through mud for next thought ) My very dark, black boots. My heavy feet, thick with weight. What are boots, but shoes with long ears? THE LONG TONGUE OF MY BOOT... WHAT IS WAR...BUT COMBAT! Kiss me...with your lips! I wade through water! I may be stuck...BUT...I...CAN'T...MOVE!
( at this point, gaze into the audience startled at the sudden silence ) I listen...as I hear... I speak...as I talk... ...
A dog...cannot be a cat. A purry animal...a furry hair-bat. A cat...at times...becomes Chow Mein. A dog? Never! Not! Said I...Un-Yes! No! Not Yes! Never! A Yes to Negative...I AIM TO SAY NO!!! Here I stand before you...YOU in front of ME, TELLING YOU THE STORY...OF...WHAT...I...SAAAY! My heart is a microwave oven of hot feelings for you...BURNING! C'mere baby...kiss my shoulder, with your mouth...THEY MAKE YOUR LIPS! What is a smile...BUT A MOUTH! WHATTAYA KISS WITH???...YOUR FACE!!! Inside my heart...which is in my body... Deep within my innermost self...are feelings of emotions.... I been HOIGHT!!!
( at this point, you may choose the option of collapsing to the floor ) A painful grievance has befallen my chest...between my armpits! I bleed my blood! Of hurt, IS my pain...my agony. I ask you - what is a question? My grief! My nose hairs! YOU DON'T KNOW MY SUFFERING... What Feeling! What Trauma! I am Bull with horns. I am Cow part bull. I am Trumpet butthole... Butt and yes, I HAVE A HOLE. My mouth...indeed...is a hole. HOLE-TO-HOLE, I KISS MY ASSSSSS!!!!!! ...
Speak of my mouth? TELL ME NO LIE...I WANT THE TRUTH!!!
( at this point, someone in the audience yells out, " YOU'RE ADOPTED!" ) THEN I MURDERED HIM TO DEATH!!! I KILLED HIM...AND THEN, HE DIED...NEVER TO LIVE AGAIN... I UNBORN HIM! I CUT that nose-hair / THREW it in the sky FATHER would have wanted that / BEFORE he had to die
( calm down and become introspective ) My inner self stays clogged, loosely... My insides back up on themselves... What I used to call excess refuses to move... My head... This bony skull of a cranium, that rests on my neck... I am empty as an eyehole without the eye. A hole of nothingness...greatly large. Deeply...towards my center...where my heart is!
( suddenly realize what you’ve been saying ) THERE IS HUNGER IN STARVATION!!! My hairs...are follicles. My arms...are appendages. My legs...are extremities. And my nose - central to my face - is at, and has been...to war. My left nostril is Lutheran. My right one, Catherine...and my facial hair...IS HOMELESS!!! My zits got popped in 'nam... My putz got tricks on spam... And you! YOU... ...
YOU...
( at this point, close your eyes and strain a loaf ) I forget my lines...when I do not remember them! My eyes close...the vision with which I see...is no longer! I am a son...who sports a penis...much as...a man would...! My feet...I could never walk...BUT...for my feet. And, in the distance...far from here, simply put... over there... my last breath is filled with air.
( look into the audience, searching for inspiration ) Something about a dove? Dove flies. Dove is dove. Dove has hole. Hole flies with dove...lifelong partners, forever! I see hole fly overhead...GO-HOLE-GO!!! POPPA HAD A FACE...MAMA HAD A MOUSTACHE POPPA HAD A FACE...MAMA HAD A MOUSTACHE I GOTTA HOLE AND...HOLE GOTTA HOLE...don't it?
( we’re almost finished ) Below me, above me... Deeply, greatly...circular... in a round manner...higher...and higher still...over HERE!!! YET... in a downwards manner, over there... tenderly gentle...father's nose hairs spoke to me...with ending finality!
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And...in a...voice...they, from he, said: "Dove's walk...when they do not fly." Excited with jubily I hold my arms in the invisible air...which I cannot see... AND I FLAP! AND I FLAP! AND I FLAP! AND I FLAP! FLAP! FLAP! FLAP! FLAP! FLAP! Alas...father is NO dove!
( pause and start crying while throwing a tantrum ) But This! This! THIS...is MY moustache! This Is MY nose. These are MY nose hairs. AND I CAN SHAVE THEM OFF IF I WANT TO!!!
( throw down imaginary razor and storm off stage...return for standing ovation ) **Note: If you do choose to perform this, in front of people, and you wish the listening to continue past a certain point...it is advisable to use only half the material in any combination since it functions as a modular piece, wherein the thrust of the original thought will not be lost by the exclusion of anything ***Note: the author & publisher are not liable for any loss of income
"Po't"
poet writes of desperation and fallacy in hopes of exorcising the demons in his write realizing the demons are his poem will all time be his poem evil doubt the larkspur to his grind in wheel turn spigot poet churns another fail to shutter his tear dream a hopeful resignation awaits poet waits his life to fall that mountain falling his climb his down his up he ends end b e f o re he can end again one long ending his poem his life oh to end this where is another beginning waiting another start waiting waiting to end I have no more endings I choose more no I don' po'et writes of desperation fallacy hopes in and of exorcising the demons in his write will realize the demons are his poem will all time be his poem evil doubt the larkspur to his grind in wheel turns pig ot po't churns another fail to shutter his ear dream a hopeful resignation waits po'et awaits his life po'it falls that po'ut mountain falling his climb his po't p'et p'utd'own his up he's ends end before he can end again one long po'at ending his po'm his life to end this oh where is another beginning waiting another start waiting waiting to end I have no more endings I choose m o r e n o I don'
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M.C. ETCHASKETCH - 2 RO OSTER IN T H E CLASSROOM - 3 A N ‘ E G I N F R O M A BEGINRESS - 4 ST EWBALL ESTROGENO - 6 B UBBLECHOP{S - 9 A FA I R Y TA L E F O R I.E. - 11 SKANKWORM - 13 G O AT S U C K E R ’ S CUCKOO - 14 J. C.'S AUTOGRAPH - 15 VIOLINGO - 16 IN BELIEF IS THE MOTION CROSSED IN FRONT - 17 OH WATER MAN - 18 NOISE - 23
M.C. ETCHASKETCH I’ve heard MEANING is making a comeback In the nineties MEANING is making a comeback Do you know what I’m saying Do you HEAR me—they say HEARING is MAKING—I hear MEANING is mean VERY mean To hear long Keep it SHORT and MEAN What you hear—YES HEARING has been AWAY for awhile It’s been BUSY—making you HEAR While MEANING Has been making US Come BACK To the OLD ways of—NOW in the nineties Hearing AND meaning Are BOTH making a comeback They’ve gone AWAY to come BACK They WERE away and NOW in the nineties To make it short—in the long run MEANING will now be HEARING For HOW long I can’t say—for SURE I WON’T stay long—I can’t SHORT is what has returned Short—MEANING Short—BITS Have made themselves Made SOMETHING Of itself We are PROUD of it Having RETURNED from—SUCH a long way Don’t get me wrong IT’S STILL GOT A LONG WAYS TO GO But it’s come back
“The children in our community age quickly, mature fastly...”
RO OSTER IN T H E C L A S S R O O M
Straight comes from truth—crooked from crime. Hidden crooks from nannies—straight & narrow from travel. Simple as all that...I still can’t see breaking up the weirdness once it’s begun...right? Just revel in it, soak in the pig of it! Let it overcome you as a hum often does!
My favorite teacher knows nothing and teaches it to me. I now have a degree to teach what I’ve learned. O, Give me the fuzzy lessons of my professor, the burned-out Victorian past eighty onto nowhere. Gimme dem dismal vowelings of my teacher...quick, it’s too bright in here, sappy, bright &...Q U I C K , amma losin’ myaaa... I - N E R - G E E ...gimme dose scattered ramblin’s of dat V I S I T - M E - I N - M Y - T E N T ...Ho-Yessir! HUP! dat sacro-babble-ilia of nuns-on-densed by le bons mots sans-sense of my PRO!-fessa!, Gash!, Gook!, Pock! AND Pookle! I can hear itta-all...WAY too... C L E A R A L L Y ! the engine’s awhirring, SPEAK, strongly, muffled & QUICK! Wrong me up my PRRRRR-fessor, (EXACTLY!)..Help me NERVOUS my P O S I T I O N ...gots too much calm at my fingerflips, DUH WHIRL HAS STOPPED WINDING, WHAMMY!!!...Hurry, (whinin’) GET ME my PROFESSOR...I need to learn NOTHING, again!
AN ‘EGIN FROM A BEGINRESS
A grinning from a ginress. — W ha t if I don’t see i t ? — Th en you don’t have to worry.
> AN ‘EGIN FROM A BEGINRESS < When the mass of creative jazz gets so out - there’s no other comp-laining-limenting-re-action f ro m the out except for what’s in i t . . . h e re ’s where you get your in-ing from an outress. Where you - beginning grin your ginnress, much as your highness. When you’re high on it - seek, you do - a highness to lay your high before, as you do begin your beginress... cultivate an egin ‘afore you do the ingress. When your cultivation roots so deep - your creative spazz is chazzed beyond belief...I’m talking SO RAZZ...YOUR BONE IS BLAST! LIFT OFF! Tailpipe swocks! Glass wall - a curtain! Shouting from Beyonderville! Doorway...see-through wall you immense yourself in. Inn-merse or out-most, a bag of Leprecution Tricks - Voltage Chicks & Kooks - ALL boosted off your BLAST! When the nasty past is pulled RIGHT through you - RIVER BOO BOO! Got the Hoo-Now? Charra - Mass! —What if I don’t see i t ? — Th en you don’t have to worry. —What if I wanna see i t ? — Th en y o u ’ r e no t so ready.
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When the whole of your create-ole jamber PAMPS SO BAD...you GOTS to ramble’on the tweeks offa telebone wire, fiberglass pop-tics offa tock so sweet, I tell you...put your ear to the end offa cyber-wire -
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STEWBALL ESTROGENO
The savior hassa hairlip puckered onto the walled cities of Liberanna, haha-harrier growls but I still hoho-horia An hour’s worth of savings time left for leftarm goto towners don’t wanno gogo ragged aground m’moutho -
halo slips a notch or two everytime I watch you glow a minute or two why don’t you
Kick down for a disser’s fro a hairblow raingoe a toe-to-toe here-we-go kiss me up your hory redempto I heard your brand of lovely land is going outta stereo 1-2-3- sucha digitary revelero rhumba jumps a cumbia once we herald all the angelos ...
How can down the townerero swing the jizzer’s prone sonero cherry clown, your pimply ride is mamacide a killers day-glo latte botch-o lismo crotcher dese-no rasser massa daze-no chain you’re lovely in your stylee robo -
glow a minute or two why don’t you halo slips a notch or two I watch you
My every orroficio halts so, rissio missa fora pluggo - jug along until we gogo muggo robes corrode the huggies nottaya seems ...a hole in one’s justa hillbone glimbing screams over dem pick-packed boys, crumb disco rascala: Pingo - y - Pongo...whatrella... Through my plead I plant your rant liked you better, without the left / right on-fluence (de la) native-ismos betcha bencha apew times incandescent frankinsus-me...burned a letter fromma bedder, learned to better care for deader, heard m’head-duh... wassa raga - waitin’ forra nada ...
Gogo camouflage infra-red-sturbation stewballa confrontation musta-gation estrogeno - 3 wishinas for da hor-mone boy...decipher UV brainsuck Scorpiono, rondo-lobo... wassa you the wolfy chancery was angelfooda-dese eyes? Foliagent sorcery companion junglack maidens waving out for alla dem radfio sweat...shortwave stunkum flying low, over the sudden mass savior grips a rectum-gifted holy pungent, gorgeous swinger -
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SKANKWORM
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MC SomethingMustaDiedInHere; checks out the skank offay the chokay—what a child in charge; will do with e m o t i o n ? ; DJ Dot DoubleYou DoubleYou DoubleYou DoubleYou DoubleYou DoubleYou DoubleYou, o h . . . w e l l , wassa double play, anyway; Metallic summer—‘Volution; gore-volute. brilliant strikeout for the skank once mentioned already; Show’d up I did; can you c o u n t ? Let the set, jet the ret up! Sed the hed, ready for the get up!
G O AT S U C K E R ’ S C U C K O O
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J. C.'S AUTOGRAPH
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VIOLINGO
capture cap beard cold culled e’sacre f i ’t u re, martyr music sac-musel animul coil cuerli, moe lurli moili, guunni wall, liolence vio-lingolo-cal shingo the ole fashioned way we do to hoops and lutes the harp the harp it poishes ma ‘haart th’ don’t ‘proach me they neva don’t we waitin’ fo’ ex fo’ play fo’ nation we whole we a nation awaitin’ for explanation waitin’ fo’ water we dry dried been done waitin’ fo’ sur prize ahi’ expect tation un expected mister Sir Prize alonga himma cummin’ ? heh? For Rise! For Supper! Justa Waitin’ For The Never Heard No? Never hearda? no Who never heard no! Nothing to be heard to BE heard, to be no, newso and so, another new no to follytude us with, slopes, lapin’, lopings, lo-pings, low pings, slow lingo lings’ shaka Who-chis, saka sha Who’s flutey, dutey Who’s duty to lay low? Let fly the who to let fly the low shak shaka o’ who? Mono O’ logo who’s monologue-goo who’s review who wants to review this?
IN BELIEF IS THE MOTION CROSSED IN FRONT is the viso crossed in front valas lay light my dance in motion is front my eyes was the man as vibretio as tongue as oxygen lens was the man over blind as beauty is racked is veiniest is cracked clacked fissure bed is belie vosi crescent is to go to a bed of glass sheets yacked cracks for wrinkles silent fraks glass bricks in back is be is I lief - I - ron out the foldings in the glass saw the drink I wanted what I needed was the fingertip mirror my outstretched grab on the ground I kiss on mamouna arberial kneel the right cross left was way the way of in the way of man the man cast light I lay my lance as a waltz of beliefs the wall of light floor of shadowbeam envy in one eye in one the downcast trodden the healed walkes in one swipe a broken light blind and black is green in lief is be and be is yellow motion in front is yalked suddenly was the man taught trees to cross their arms in belief
OH WATER MAN
shrill croak-tones octave venus milliographic fillia water slides me towards infinity I have left the green she of dragonfly sailors slayling by streams of dribs of beautilays from my back blewndown behinded left assume-ily-ing... I have chiesled a chist-niche trust fund for myself in globs of worldular consumony, those that wish they couldy, wish I haddy, been, I, havvy had, a load...of experience, showveled from these shouldobos, beneathed mountainous rovolos reached ever'd'evileep periolous owerful everful sub-semblances, of monomoments in charge...strung together by cautionous, I. Oh...Water Man, Oh...Water Man, She She Sky She
is lugubrious, invisible. is...leaves - not there - rain - on you. piss lugubrious dip shit - damp some - ain't it... runs into glass walls - an invisitor, by the shaft of her own samba.
Oh...Water Man, You're made of things you said you'd never be. On my side, etched in sylla-graphicantations...shrill your boots of infamy... Poseidous-water-faun-filligree...water-lawn pageantry...surf-il-lows 'irically. Miracle-ly, through it's own spine, tragickalley falls to find...that...one... Gravity's seedling sits my plow, kalimba-ly sings for a pillowless throw...carries her head into water. ...
Where I thread my needle with sirens and sound. Where my beaut mute pumice boot treads true...sorries the sand... cocoons the cilderness...possibles the planet...whirls the derv i s h . . . t h re a d s the mold...cajoles the konunga of an inspired dobro, a dot-speck pigeon fancy, pidgin-englished into bosom heave...I have Ammassed a suck-collection of crow gape. Crouped the pus, combed back from the Caves of Rupia... on lonely nights - when curls puke febrile suspension. HAH!!! The Nubs of Knowledge Along My Path Go, "BOO!!!" Raipu, Raipu...Loosen The Noose!!! I've sandpapered papuma's through Palovia's papoose! Been chuckin' Appaloosa... Been gived, given dawn a-lavial-lindstrom. Worn the rubbers, cranked of myth-storm...acummin'...Thunder Tonsils...Crane The Rafters! I have carved millions on my side, shattered the Big Glass along the fold and let the messofillia waver and carve the course. Oh...Water Man, Oh...Water Man, water water water water
bones me back to back to muscles me back to back to builds me back back to water mans me
I have placed the weight of eternity seven-stone cranberry from beneathing malamattress skywash through the folio-crackerbeards, through the must of milky wheat-potch, through the orbiting santatia... gravitated wean-sapple through avoidance... and there, was where I placed my trust. Where I was, was a place, where I would stay.
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S q u a re - i l y, curvily I, had plucked a tailor...invisible for a wish. Had him sew scones in the skywash...foam-first, whish for a cranny, a crook, from my sides. G a t h e re d a sack of what lies behind...the simple-tude of continuous, I. Oh...Water Man, these boys have sweethearts and crocodiles they fall pulled like beads from the ass of the sun... one... one... one... one... hear me now for I have sinned it has been invisible lifetimes since my last rain... This Is what pulls the tides into remembrance. What courses the veins of revolution. The map of licks. At some point of exit, when you deem it worthy to make acknowledgement of my...ever-being, of my. . . p re s e n c e , when you find it upon yourself, to have that moment of recollection upon which I, had a name...wait. For I have had two O's, H'd and riled many frees, O's and ozones... I have stood still for my naked rampart, loyal, layel, lay-vely low... Slick to river lurk, I have coalesced 4-legged beggings from the furrows of accounta-bulls, the-what-the-wheels-accounta-bleels, of sea-balsam-amoebame-rosea-sea-cows...ever-seeing, I have, around mankind, beyond a sickle, to the left of my rancor... wounded what I've gone through...
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afore, frist, afrarre, frond, afind...is...that...one... there is a man he had wireless glasses without the lenses shoes with no soles a shirt with no back a book with no title spoke without word had me with his stare made me talk to him without word Mine, invisible to what scatters. What brings, to my love's glisten, his eyes of language. Water-lingual-eyes that glisten like the lakes they are. PLIP. PLOP. PUP. BABBA. LAPLAND - CAUSEYWAY PLAP. PLOOP. BLABBA. LAPLAP - FLOBBY WAVES....sowahanna man... what amaz-aylings abouza-liquings...is, it behinds you, while in you, it finds you, while with you... O...Ho-Sanna Man, Ojo...Water Man... mostly, I am in you mostly, I am of you and mostly, of all Fontana-tap-fillia-flipped...one slip of sand-scatter...this: What mantle of man-matter might make man...matter...? Is a man, water...O-Man, is a man...one glass wall...one prayer suspended in the wet, she, wades through, what, I've gone through...her,
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place H aside, on her side, her rosary wash, her 'lysian fields, her moonlight caress, her to find one corner to gallop into... one... one... one... Aipur, Aipur, sever the sun! I have the map of licks, clucked under my tongue! Yahtzi-Vox-Pi-Opuli...have fortly Placed my limbs in coherence to the galaxy. Boned the Blanket! Swilled the Plankton! Dived the Diven Din of Grunge... Squirreled arborial fantasm glocks in self-echanismic ertigo lunge... Spittled ink-spattle on the test of time...carried the surf, where the shattered soon rise... Quickened the pace of glaciers, where there is no air...mine. What slips the pull into remembrance, Where I have memories of the past difficult to quash themselves. Where I have memories to make the future make me difficult make themselves. Where you make me make myself make me make you into me'ture you in me I...quash, quash, quash the givering gash, gash, gash until we cross, cross, cross the rivering chance, of seas I long for... of seas I hope for... I see my home... she calls me home...
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S U N GUN EN E S PAÑOL - 2 T H E F R A C T U R I S T I S A B O L L WEEVIL: PT. II - 3 T H E P O I N T O F L A D Y B L O C K H E A D ’ S POIN T - 4 HERMAPHRODYKE - 6 TA KILL TH' T. V. ( A Te l e P o e m ) - 7 M E L O D Y F O R B R O K E N SKY - 10 HARLEM AL FRESCO - 13 A SEASON OF BEENS - 14 NOISE - 15 :THE:GUN:SONG: - 16 R AT CHANT - 20 CH I - 21 S U R FA C E NOISE - 22 NOISE - 23 OH, TO M EET AGAIN - 24 BECAUSE - 25 M Y NAME - 28 NOISE - 29 T H E M I R R O R H A S T W O ENEMIES : WAVE IF YOU’RE TIRED - 30
S U N GUN EN E S PA Ă&#x2018; O L
el sol desea encontrar el espiritu el espiritu desea despertar el sol el espiritu se de la un vuerto el sol desea engagnar el espiritu el espiritu esta en el lado, el lado donde tiene dolor el sol desea amorar el espiritu el espiritu se aido el sol mira en las calles el sol engagna otro espiritu el espirirtu se amorar con otro sol
T H E F R A C T U R I S T I S A B O L L WEEVIL: PT. II I.MIO.I.OMI O “I will love you” says unconditional lover Eyes and soul as open
as lets tears run free Nothing stands against an open window so much as Unconditional love Questions killed Before they jump “Why” says conditional lover Testing boundaries of faith Of which never having had Of which sees in Other mindless purity Of which self feels Undeserved unsecure of Life-taunt which is Tight for lover Never having had falling
I AVA . M AVA . I A V Unconditional lover says I love you to who questions lovers understanding of lover.
But you don’t understand what I say S o So you don’t understand me How can you love me if you don’t understand me Who says I have to understand you to love you Can’t I love you just for you But if you don’t know the who Who says I don’t You do I say I don’t and so I do so love you Who you say you love is who I am not Who says I do Why can’t I say who you are How can you When I know you D o n ’t know I understand that You don’t I do So how you do I is how I do you Yes And how you so you is how I don’t S o No I refuse to love you But you said you did and I said you don’t I understand Yet you say now you don’t Just to prove To who To you That what That I You what Love you I don’t know how You won’t stop No Then I can’t Go I love you So I miss You know you will I will always No don’t go there I haven’t What Left Yet I still will miss you How haven’t left y e t You have W h e n Just now by unlove you show I love you So do I I don’t understand you So do I I am leaving you I don’t want to be here anyway Can I come with you But you’re the one who’s leaving Who is We are Then let’s This moment Was meant for us Let’s love Until we can’t But I thought we Would love forever Yes We can’t Why not There will always be Another Ye s Who E a c h o t h e r Love Ye s Is the other Ye s Of us Ye s Will always Get in the w a y Then let’s not L o v e Yes Allright let’s Unlove Ye s L e t ’s fall out Ye s I don’t Love you I don’t Love you Yes Yes We don’t Now We do Yes We can Let’s
THE POINT OF LADY BLOCKHEAD’S POINT
What it is:
Mercator appears assa mistaken reverie Her crown, like the world be – low – FLAT! (TAP THE TAP TAP an’ let’em know)
What she says:
( C i rc u m - Telago recompance) “I don’t want to hold it , here...< o pens hand > clean it out – KWIK, fetch me a Pepper!”
Her knights her slaves, like sky outside... round and fizzly – Sir Plate-letto Hissssssssly appears – to have been wounded...WITH THIS?
What?
< he says >
“I fight the whales? with a guise for a dis? And I gotta vis? Of what she’s missin’ tween the ear tobes?...< k nock k n ock > Excuse splayed-out-earther me...”< door opens, music> (UNTIL I MECK YOU, IN MIS-ACANO WAS I IN DIS-ARRAYO...hey pssst - the tow to row) : : : MINUTE : : : <music stops, door closes> < solar - bum - ba - dum - bump > and the pain...< k nock k n ock >...hohhh the pain ...
Her feet, like her head Square – Block – Soda – Pop with ligguns ‘tween the ear lobes...< k nock knock > P a rdon me...I don’t want to save the world, I...uh...9<heh>0...I was in love...and used what was near...is’ all! Heh...here, set sail and have fun...LOTS! < opens her gut >
The point being:
To what she says, not what is...<slop slop >...but what she’s not < not> She’d Q-Tip every night, but miss some spot. < spot>
HERMAPHRODYKE -“O.K. it’s picture time!” Eavesdropping onna CaffuCincin CoffeeNutnut - menu please. -“A typical Latino, very sweesweet!” Sylvanian fifi Domo-Bi-Sexual vibe Ageless, ex-lover... (CLICK) “Now, Youyou...” (CLICK) Vulvanancing around the globe things had changed, time to talk... Next table - tourist wanted a sHe’sbian. (“swear from mouth -“I Gots To Get Home-inican!” verbatim anti-PC -“Straight Man Gonn’ Gay You Out?” done come out” --ET ORRES ) DePrub-lic, UnPubic-size, L’a Mour, Mr. FrenchKiss friend... Straight Sci-Fi SuperFem - falls, becomes amorous and wonderful only when needy...Domo Queen. Friend for life - first ever WholeManWhuuMan comes along...you order, I’ll taste - was all us in on it, ( L i c k L i c k ! ) JointJoint, easy nickname - my arm across a table, ( C h o m p C h o m p ! ) Our time in Whipped Crew Molasses, “...just an old fashioned screw - started sleeping together,” (No way!) Oh, Super Way!!! So how did you react to that? -“Waiting-ater...I, ummm...JohnJohnny Dessert!” -“Tiffany Boy Voice. Norma, Illinois!” Wow, all those TestesChoice - had’em, she did, all these B-oy-ices (get this) could throw her voice - 15 pounds - Raul Vanigna...a very masculine thing. -“All my lovers, ex-husbands and girlfriends - I tell ‘em!” It’s cross-cultural, this insanity - pero mira (Chica, I tell you) ...I heard all these male voices behind stained glass - FBI Task Force - I sez Wow...she sez I’m a broken-hearted schizo-phrenia, now, I can take a lot, but...Jelloheylove - lookit. -“I have limits to my daring.” Lookit the time, No pie for the key lime! - She was leaned clocloser - as the Tete become tetter - “I can meet (I forg e t s w h o) your eyes...they give me nerves, a good kind - Let’s go! -”chHhEeeee(k) (CHECK)”
TA KILL TH' T. V.
( A Te l e P o e m )
-“YA KIN THROW A TRUSS INNA HAMPER, BUT YER STUCK WITTA BOIL...” -“AH HEAR DAT...”
-“YA KIN BUY A TRUSS, BUT YA CAIN’T BUY A BOIL...”
-“AH USED TA TRUSS YA, NOW... AMMA GONNA HAVE TA BOIL YEW...” -“AH HEAR DAT...”
-“AH HEAR DAT...”
Hey Andy - Lookit the content! Lookit the politics!
Lookit the entertainment! Lookit the T.V! Hey Gomer - The monitor. The tube. The monitor. The tube. The monitor!!! Hey Andy - It’s not workin’... Hey Gomer - Stick it out the crack a bit...y e h h. . .politico’sssss. . .
SHAKE THE V E RT I L - T H E HOLD...HOLD IT!!! ...grrrrrrrr...
Th’ white nap on pinhead liberal-bolomies...ANNIE...yehh... Hey Annie, to the Shores that Trip-Over--Me...heh heh... Hey Gomer! Hold still B U R N- y o u -B U T T...buddy I’ll...trip it over it...over it...it-it-mine-butt, HOLD IT!!! Hey Andy - Check out the Bobby decoloration o’ the pinky pink thinky
thought rotten your brain, as it molds itself into what you Aunt bwanna-Be, a hairless chihuahua, flies wit’ decayed wings, cave-dropped-roppings an’ plugs in his head an’ remember, he’s not only the owner...HE’S A BUM!!! Hey Gomer - Click it off, will ya? Hey Petty Atty Andy - You pent up Popeil Pocket Fisherm a n . . .
***K YOU, IT’S BLURRY!!! Hey Gomer Goober Gum Boy - SHRUB-RUSH THE R E C E P T I O N . . .
click...click...S’up with this antennee? Yo...click...click...clickit... Yo LOOK...Lookit the Rhetoric Lemmings! Yo - Hey - Gomer! You hold that T.V. like it’s your belly, like it’s your life! Hey Gomer...you gotta, Un-Shock the Trusser, Lance that Boil...Quaker Oak-Man! Un-Trunk Jack Dilapil-atum’s Ladle Shackles from Republico’s Jumble-Ya-Ya! You too hepped up with the Cranium Pisser who voted Urethra in 9 states! You too mented orizon acial eatures...feh...fencin’ onna wire... gots ta KILL that belly fulla bile, little buddy! Ta Hell Wit Yew... Hey Oprey - Lookin’ fer music? Lookin’ fer politico’s entertainment? LOOKIT MY T.V.! Turn on the govern-ment, TWO-ment, TWO-ment, who mentions Aunt Juana-Be one, two, wanna be one jus’ like it?...hmmm? Hey Daddy - Gomer Goober Gum Boy’s ***k*d up! Hey Son - Mind yer manners, it’s a cheap set. Cheap Hill. D.C.
Volume Pop Peep. Hey Pop. Peep CHEAP Horizontal Contrast - ain’t none...s’yer mind that matters, manic son. Hey Gomer! S’up with this AuntTENEE? cain’t SEE? a-thingatall-FORD?...I’m all talked out...slap...SLAP! SLAP! ***K this static...go ‘head jabb it. ***K this picture...
GO Cranium Pisser. ***K this entertainment. ***K this antenee...GO Goo Goo...heh...Head... Let’s go fencin’...feh...witta Wire Hanger...mmmm-hh-yehh... Hey Andy - Hold still, yer jabbin’ it in! Plooie, Jabbier, Whish To t . . .
HOLD STILL!!! Hey Gomer - Lookit me dance an’ jab...Hoolé, Corliolé, La BOOSH!!! Hey Daddy - Yer hurtin’ Gomer! Hey Son - MIND YER MANNERS...I’m clarifyin’ yer future
with this here intravenous antenee! SEE? The picture’s clearin’ up already...jus’ like yer skin. Lookit yer pop...ain’t ya proud! He’s performin’ an abortion on the G.O.V.T.V !!! Hey Daddy - Amma Scare d ! Hey Son - Whack, Whook, Lookit me Dance an’ Jab, K A P O O K !
(“ANDEEEEE!!!”) Hey Daddy - Gomer’s Day’ed... Hey Son - Jus’ scrapin’ down the walls
of m’Mockracy...tha’s all. Hey Gomer, Gomer...your water’s burstin’. Come on son, your mama’s callin’.
MELODY FOR BROKEN SKY
once I gained resemblence once I heard the call once I pardoned shabbyness once I had it all and I stand on this cliff and I treasure my height and I stand on this cliff and I measure the fall A N D T H E S K Y BREAKS A N D T H E S K Y BREAKS A N D T H E S K Y B R E A K S A N D Y O U — L I V E I N Y O U R TONGUE...
and they give you your size and you give them your hole and they say you belong and you fracture the mold once you have alignment once you lose it all once you stood in silence once your world was small i place it and i shape it and i blame it and i take it and i name it and i drain it and i make it and i shake it and i shook it and sh’ fall same same same same same same same same same same same same same can I offer you resistance can I fight the wind can I give you the outcome you don’t wanna win play the game correctly play the same old song play the song you finish finish what you play mind your own direction try to find your high find your own surrender try to find the sky ...
AND THE SKY BREAKS AND THE SKY BREAKS AND THE SKY BREAKS—AND YOU LIVE INSIDE YOUR TONGUE—AND YOU FLIP INSIDE YOUR TONGUE—AND YOU RIP THE SKY IN TWO—AND IT FA L L S A L L O V E R Y O U — A N D I T COVERS YOU WITH BLUE—AND YOU LICK THE MORNING DEW—AND YOU TA S T E — Y O U L I C K — Y O U F I N D — Y O U YOUREYUYUREYUYOURE—YOU....
i ain’t goin’ to sleep, ’cuz amma wake up dead so amma stay right here, countin’ these sheep, ajumpin’ over ma head there goes another...heh a’nother...heh a’nother—how tall the night—how tall the night—how tall the night? once you get your number once you mow the lawn once you rip the sofa yaaaaaaaawn and they say you’re important as they drown you with light and they waste your surrender onna hopeless night and they cancel your diction and dance on your tongue and you’re left with resistance (something happy always wins) and you don’t know the fall until you marry the height and you bring in a new one and everything is right once you have erection once you pay the price once you stain the carpet Nice—Nice—VERY NICE!!! ...
try to say you’re sorry try to follow flight try to stretch a season try to change the night and you get with the program and you got what it takes and you punchout the bozo who calls you a flake once you paint the monkey—DONKEY!DONKEY!DONKEY!DONKEY!DONKEY! once it ain’t, it ain’t, it ain’t, it ain’t, it ain’t, it ain’t—AWWWWW—HEEHAWW— HEEHAWWW and I lean on my left and I lose what I hide and I live in this tongue when I can’t decide was I going under was I only small once the world was tiny once the night was tall and I stand on this cliff and I treasure my height and I stand on this cliff and I measure the fall
HARLEM AL FRESCO
the light has itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lover and I have covered my eyes incomplete same silver night with ears slowered to ground - float and I hold light by itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s string still revered by light I hold my trail - as my only wing
A SEASON OF BEENS
Y’know these wings, these wings I own—been railed against & burned, been tested too far Y’know this flight, this flight been on—been shut down much-many times, been run aground but Y’know this heart, this heart much stood—been stilled in storm, been strong to it all and Y’know this crown, this sun that sits—been put for a spell, for a season, right there been put underneath— for a reason
breathe you in : blow you away
noise singing
:THE:GUN:SONG:
the sun wishes to find the spirit the spirit wishes to wake the sun the spirit rolls over the sun wishes to fake the spirit the spirit is on it's side now, the one that hurt s the sun wishes to fuck the spirit the spirit is gone the sun looks in the stre e t s the sun fools another spirit the spirit fucks another sun
i’m gun i am gun i
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gunnnnnnah
g u n n n n u n n n
n a h
nah g u n n n n n n
I'M GUN NAH TAKE U IN THE HOT TEST PART OF THE AFTER SHOCK AN RIDE U OUT LIKE A SEWR PIPE UNDER THE DANK EST PART OF THE RI VAH REMINISING TO THE STAGE WE HAD ON MONDAY TWO-DAY ... OOZE-DAY ... LU-DÉS WE PUS' OUR LOWLY ASSES TO FONDLE 'N DAHHH SUN POISON VELVETY ... FROZILY ... CHIMINY ... BLANKETS ... BABY DEY BE LEAVIN'US ALONE WIT CRAWDADDY CUM SHOT ... HACCIM PEEPERS GOTT SLEEP-DOTS IN HER FUNNN HAERS? HMMMMMMUS’ BE SANNA DEM CONCERTINA PRAISED JUICES ...
ME FONDLIN BAYBLY BELOW DUM STAERS! ME UNDERSIDE O’ HEAVEN BE SHOOTIN BLANKS AT DEM RATS DAT 'PARROW DAT SUN POI SON ... BANG! POI POOO SOY ... SWAO WAOWW!!! AMMA GONNA GONNA I'M A GUN GUN GUNNN ... U THICK THIGHED THICKDICK THIGHED U U IN U LUXURY ... RED ... VELVET ... CUNTCOVERS AN ME IN DEM ... TUD ... STUD ... LACK ... BLACK ... LUTCH ... CLUTCHCOVERS AROLLIN AROUN WIT SWEAT EEEEEEEEEE HAND [MI MANO GOTS AMMO, U KNOW?] MMMMMMMM ... NOT (NO) NEITHER NOT GOT ... SEE DOWN DEM COVERS IS ME IS MY VELVETY YOU AN YOU ... N ... U ... AN ... ME ... N ... Y' N' UNDERNEATH THEM PAINT CHIPPIN COLUMNS UP ON DEM CONCERTE FAKE GREEK STAIRS ALLA DEM VOYAERS BE ROLLIN EYES PAS US SO NERVOUS CAUSE THEY COULS FEEEEEEEL US FEEL ALLA UR JUICY ... SALTY ... FISHY ... SWEAT SWISHIN ON ME HANDS AN FINGERS READ MY LIPPPPPSSSSSS BABY O MINE
"WE MOVIN ON TONIGHT!"
FOUN US A LOW-VELY NEW SET O STAIRS AUTHENTIC RIO AUTHENTIC ALAMO AUTHENTIC HARLEM AUTHENTIC ... AH DUNNO ... LOISAIDA? IS I??? DA!!!
...
CHE MEEK-MEH SPLIT DEM TOOBER FAT DICKTHANG ... VELVESCUVVUD BABY O MINE BAYBLY BAABLY BUUBLY L O O K ! LOOK AT US ... LOOKIN AT US! L O O K ! LOOK AT US ... LOOKIN AT US DOIN' THAAAAAAA U NO ... PUSHIM D AT ... PUSHIM T O ... PUSHIM PUSHIM PUSHIM FRO . . . ... HOOOOOOOOOOOO ... DEM WHO SEES US ... PEES US WE WHO SEES ... PEE-PEES US DESE ... BE OUR SOLO DAYS ... BE JUICIN US ... FEELIN US... DYIN' TO DIE TO FRO LICK ON DAIR DEM TAME MUD MOONPIE MEMORIZIN ME BABY'S UNDERSIDE SHOOTIN DANK-BLANKS AT DEM RATS ... ME ZATS ...
GO BATS ...
... WWWAAAOOOWWW ... AMMA GONNA GONNA I'M A GUN GUN GONNA GONNA AMMA GONNA GONNA I'M A GUN GUN GONNA GONNA GO ... FOR MY
THICKTHIGHED BABY’ZO COL'D ... FOR MY THICKTHIGHED BABY SOLO ... FOR MY VELVESCUVVUD BABYOMINE (CUSTED PUSSTED JUS DE WAY I LUSTED) HMMMN'THASS WHEN I DECIDES TO GO ...
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MA C U M - B I - YAN-OYE-ME-YOYES PIRI-TO ME!!! THRU U THICK U SUNSHINE U MANA MAN THIGHS ...
LIST-LIST ... LISTEN TO ME WIT UR LIST-LIST ... LISTEN TO ME WIT UR SEECRET RABBITEAR VAGINAL LIPS ... BI SWEE'HEART TRIGGER’POP WE ROCKIN ON DE CHOPPIN BLOCK ... BAMBI DOLL U SWEAT ME ... BUCKHANDS SECRET-E MY CREE TIONS UNDENIABLE IN BEAUTÉ REBBITELLE LUVVEY O' MINE ... THIS AM US ... SI??? GUNN NAHHH ... RIGHT!!??? AUTHENT - T H I C K FLESH - N I G H T ! ? T I G H T - RIO T I G H T - ALAMO T I G H T - AMSTER DAMO, M A N ... NO MAS AMMO!!! MI MANOS!!! SDTICKY WITH VELVES RED MAS TONGUE, LICKY WITH GUN GUN GUN GUN SDTICKY WITH VELVES RED MAS TONGUE, LICKY WITH GUN GUN GUN GUN GUN SDTICKY WITH VELVES RED MAS TONGUE, LICKY WITH GUN GUN GUN GUN GUN sun finds spirit wishes wakes sun rolls spirit wishes over fakes spirit sides one h u rts sun wishes spirit fucks gone looks sun s t reet fools spirit wishes fuck sun
GUN
R AT C H A N T
holy quag holy quiet shyster rivet to barnacle blown holy jubilant kayan pope spurn of spum civet musk chomp of dipping soap hole-y balled acidic blanket drain of water sod and sin holy holed up cerebelly pot stump mincemeat stargaze fissure-chin pound holy whoremonger-a-nagros moldy pumped hurts arabian mutter holy halted civic savant slagged obsidian holy savior wielding fat lips gurning night holy serenade of laughter holy pasted funeral pyre shumbled oblivion street-sage mangled directions of hell pollen holy matted dread prince trail of shruggery holy satellitic para-saint suppering squints of snoop holy kid
CHI
this is wave what this is
S U R FA C E N O I S E
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OH, TO ME ET AGAIN
Until we meet again let’s say we did and meet again Until we meet again let’s say we didn’t meet again Let’s say we didn’t meet again Until we meet again let’s say we did And then again... Translate the orbit to it’s waiting galaxy Translate the talking to the synchronicity Translate the body to what the world will want to see Translate the city to what the world will let us be Translate incompletion to the changing transcendental Translate apprehension to exulting strands of mental Mention in the crosshairs the enchanted chosen masses Translate the empowered into self-defining asses sokay it’s okay it’s okay sokisokisokisokisoki Translate all the culture twice entrapped in molten lafta Translate vulture carrion the goated rotted jokester Joke the woven tapestr-apped the rapture wants delivery Sooner later looney was translation at the core of ore ohr ohr ohr ohr ohr hohr hohr hohr ohrahorlahaahoahorlhorlhorl What the wants to see will be What the was will what will was What the tempting was to be The way to was is will the well well well well welllll! well well well well welllll! well well well well welllll! Until we meet again, let’s say we did And meet again, let’s say we didn’t meet again Until we meet again, let’s say we did And then again...
BECAUSE
Because the flowers repeat in clusters of repeat Because the sun decides to visit through the repeat of their petals—as round lilac as green lilac stems Because the flowers are a sun cluster of repeats in the sun shades Because the shades between the petals make each clump a cluster of stars Because the stars are clumped as sunstruck heart demons Because hearts are demonic when betrayed unloved Because love comes in clusters when decides to repeat it repeats mistakes and becomes— a cluster of loves Because clusters lose their shade when sun becomes demon Because repeats of demons are what flowers become—when sun clusters into their lilac petals— clustered on a stone wall Because walls of stone are clusters of stone—held together by sun rock Because sun is glue that sticks hearts together—when star clusters spin out of control Because control is what loses me the moment—the I—is introduced
...
Because control is what I lose when I start to repeat Because this one is enviable and that one is door—standing in front of me—a cluster of becoming Because this door Because a repeat of doors Because doors are locked by demon sun terminology Because what I say becomes who I am—no matter how often I repeat what I become Because becoming in repetition is when I lose control—over being who I am—what I am IS because Because because is all one cluster one word of because becoming become—who I come to in a cluster of come Because I am unseen by who wants to see—by a birth of seeing—becoming unseen Because I was a birth unseen and become—who I ended Because once I ended was what I saw—as someone else’s idea Because this is someone else’s idea to repeat endlessly—the many births I have become Because to claim someone else’s idea as my own allows me control—mine to lose—in a cluster of losing what’s owned is unseen—until it is repeated—until because repeats—as a cluster of flowers—as someone else’s idea— as a cluster of ideas—has become ...
someone else’s bouquet—for me to shine on to claim as mine—to step through becoming Because I become Because I become I am I end Because to the end in the sun—a flower—in repitition of the sun is a demon—cluster of the sun—unseen
MY NAME
Today My color Is a letter I Am letter Blue my name Is a crayon A rainbow I make A pot Of letters When I say My name A letter burns The sky I melt Rainbows My color Is a Letter i Am Letter blue
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...
His acne causes riots - it’s...Cell-u-Lar He’s here to push the envelope - ...Cell-u-Lar
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It’s really only cellulite - ...Cell-u-Lar
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T & A’s his specialty - ...Cell-u-Lar
He’s really not that bad, this guy - ...Cell-u-Lar
Who picked his outfit, anyway? - ...Mallo-Mar
I guess I’m trying to tell you, I’m - ...Cell-u-Lar
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I guess I think it’s funny, I’m - ...Cell-u-Lar
Who’s dresser really knows for sure - ...Cell-u-Lar
And all along, you thought you knew - ...uh, uh, uh
Who’s dreads are mucho-culti-cool - ...Rast-a-Far
Now, I don’t usually do this - like...Hell-you-Are
Shampooning for the multitude - ...Wash-it-Ouuur
I guess I need your money - couldya...Help-me-Ourrr
He’s psychic! He’s dysfunctional - ...Cell-u-Lar His mopping show went bankrupt - call...Cell-u-Lar He seems to be in traction - it’s...Cell-u-Lar
Perhaps I’ll get a job in sales - ...Step-Right-Uuuu I’ll sell the clothes you’re wearing - I’ll...Cell-u-Lar My family disowned me - they...sold the farrrr They claim I lost perspective - but...don’t you worrr
He’s mouthing out the victim - it’s...Cell-u-Lar Let’s flashback-back to yesterday - ...Cell-u-Lar
The lineage is strong, just ask - GrandPapa I guess I need advice, I’m still - ...Cell-u-Lar
He wanted to proclaim his love - ...Cell-u-Lar He called a friend to plan the day - ...Cell-u-Lar
I’m trapped in this equation - this...Cell-u-Lar
A secret lover’s hideaway - ...Cell-u-Lar
I traveled here, but can’t get off - ...Cell-u-Lar
He listens on his portable - ...Cell-u-Lar He hears another love with his - Fuck-a-Far! They’re planning life without him - poor...Cell-u-Lar He’s livid with saluvya - oooh...Cell-u-Lar “They’ll curse the day they met me” - says...Cell-u-Lar “Those foogin’ foogs I’ll foog’em!” - states...Cell-u-Lar He buys a gun, he puts it down - ...Cell-u-Lar
Addicted to the inside, bossth - ...Cell-u-Lar Don’t run away I’ve just begun - ...Cell-u-Lar I think I’ll start another one - ...
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"Equals parts Joycean experimentalist, Nuyorican performance poet, New York School-style emoter and graphic concrete poet, Torres has been developing one of the most elaborate poetic hybrids." -- Publishers Weekly "It's hard to wrestle meaning from the shreds of language he tosses out. And on paper, Torres seems to make as much sense as a Port Authority schizophrenic," --New York Magazine "It is obvious that Edwin Torres is the bastard love child of Mayakovsky and Parra, midwifed by Apollinaire" --Poetry Project Newsletter