Creative Self Destruct

Hungry for conjugal verbs

Predictive coding

feeling where to insert our poetic machine

Sentience before the word

or suicide by cop

In the almanac of human emotions

the decision happens to me

Tabula rasa for actuaries

My laminate error

gilded or guilty

cock teasing or tasing

The infantry are more direct

Mere headlines don’t talk back

Versed in Grumpy

Erased in Sleepy

Invisible words respond with good fortune

Dwarfs of latent depth

Orange Julius

“I have never seen a thin person drinking diet coke”

Pump twice for Big Gulp

Mr Big Shot comes cream colored

Place lid & use straw to stir

then went down to ungodly seas

No deck chairs I insist

It’s a mafia trick

Free lunch breeds obligation

Check please!

Trust me, no shoulder shrugs

no accounting

it will be extraordinary

How I bow to bookthugs and beseech ye

Hear not and trust not

or you’ll feel nothing

just stand down as they stand up

bad jokes do nothing 

My peeps are temporary peeps

Footfaults and alleyways

‎that run from what communes

Exiles with pleats

The jokes they must be telling

Whatever you do

don't say no at the meeting

I am working now for the inner agency 

My life in X

It's why eagles have an entourage

Seagulls with the marginal swagger
they buried him in his Adidas‎

Rabble with the greatest hit

Died of poptimism 

Planked in 20 minutes

I will have to get back to you

Meet me on the pier

‎years later 

to touch the wound

Narcocorreador

‎The finest lips you've never seen

the sweetest lisp

full of screams

The bluest sky

the greenest green

like a beautiful child

to last a year‎

Denial of Service # 3

You look like cops

Abiding muscular blue

Gains and losses

Blind accumulation

What nice straddles and curves

Organs

Bought in order to give proof

Stop already

Condensed dream

The small penis of the other

Inconvenient colleague

More by cookery than by conquest

Please submit enhancement request

for expression

as it connects fact

Please my brother

Bring those murdered

& thrown in sea

Beach Blanket Babylon

The cinematic alarm

Paid for colour

in negative space

Paid fees for certificates

diplomas and degrees

Swept barbershop

Disciplinary cluster

For inner and outer

genres of fact

What’s attached to privilege

Sacred cows & tin gods

Intuition that lip syncs

Attack of the proper nouns

Magazine to feed for (notes on birdsong)

Equal to what she said
will you not (asterisk) my
nightingale

Will you not
execute
affection

Nesting is not this
not this LP
fourteen songs

After words scarcely
a whisper
closer to synapse

Three fingerlings
one of which
swallows Titlark

I had some chuckles
young Linnet
certain strips not cheesecloth

Not sparrow or Goldfinch
no two eyed monster
no accidental fledge

A mute fortnight
for margins
for allegiance in rapture

Dear Lincolnshire
dear Goatherd
go eat along median

Strip all vegetation
absent judgment
no tears no justice

No cage in which I shalt
mistake the letter
To jerk that pole

Notes on symptoms

            -for the con man who has everything

Chef Boyardee

Boogie boards

What’s the market on bloated abdominal chest pain

Misidentified as interchangeable parts

I fell to earth

Dog breeds to match life

Separability vs demand for face time

Acts like a lady smells like a man

Neutered intention is how it feels

She knew that he knew that she knew

Problem of low battery power

I’m not ok with planned obsolescence

Not in love with ‘immeasurable fun’

Light head or dry mouth

Poor dexterity and muscle tone 

Motor clumsiness

Experienced pain while writing

Let us praise the cold-flu formulae

God's personal corporation

Vessel that threw out all grace 

In a poem called public utility

His allegiance is to allegiance

Last seen on a boat called Fidele

Cog in Mallarme’s machine

In your face like a Pi chart

Homing device against infernal alternatives

Discharge of utopian meme

Confidence in irrational beauty

Your trans number

Baked into subject position  

Meet me at Panini Village

Typhoid or was it

second marriage 

arranged to displace pawn shop

the doctor where she grew up

simulated woodland

hair in a bun

patterns of books

in Troy New York

I made that up

there were no patterns

worklife and lifework

just tensions of the belittling present

and low self esteem

Soft Dogma

 

Barrel rolls

& cork barrettes

play acting

bound to what implicates

‎I took it in the mouth

belief against belief

I want to be that jailbait

monster that no longer exists

parasite to echo on

fractured inits

swallowed starfish

figs stems & all

Phat Pitch

     “Another futurism is possible”

–B Bratton

Haunted fact

of futures past

Remorse isn't enough

What carries force

carries forth

As my ‘gaol’ quivers

I misspelled

more than the failed commune

My father’s trade

the lip latency I’ve slipped into

Arrowheld

of Kairos lost

Capital husbandry

captive by constraints of love

Take your fear grin to the tongue gym

I pushed up up and away

Super mensch in a choral robe

Liar liar she sang

Humans in tutus and king tuts

I mean too human

You are too human

No more please and thanks

To remove lyric

Step 1: disable alarm

& backup the sun

Assert there is a becoming

of continuity but no continuity

of becoming

Okay step to y’all

disable cone of silence

& open pop up

mansplain in 140 characters or less

Once you see the display tent

& bicycles built for two

Deploy enjoyment

this is the dance party

circulation could not forestall

call it material detail

call it sealed motion to unseal

Finally to exploit charisma

remember to unclick rootkit

Insert machine first

(no hard on’s please)

Nature’s unpacked receptacle

with its grass stain camo constants

wants to evade unstoppable gadgets

to cannibalize all variables

to get happy

& gag all expression

Trespass to Chattels

No shirt no shoes

problem of history’s veil

the better to invent what lacks direction

Mix white flour

to taste reciprocal measure

Take off the other body

better behavior figures its ground

selling the sandwich

rhetoric preserves the baser instincts

I’ll take domination with a side of

the real of course

Nothing authorizes

Emotive machines

like colorblind Zombies

Character Count

“If reason be judge, no writer has produced such inconsistent characters as nature herself has.”

 “… he was, in the extremest sense of the word, a stranger.”
            -H. Melville

It translates confidence
Epoxy to hold my brother
it holds with two quick slaps
one part primal then the fix

We vote with our feet
Between seeing & being seen
between making a shoe
& finding a buyer for the shoe

I heard the all points I saw the man
Seeking stranger with two jobs
poet with the stinging cheeks
wilder mongrel propped up for song

Training ones ear to disrupt
to engage uncivil verse
as strange as the orchid
voting for wasps

Instruction not to answer

Misery is a bore
it is realism as precarious angst
the new really new
getting ready to be reproduced
I was raised to the sublime power
Horror of stenograph
caught in the reverse shot
I am I because my curious yellow cat
because it's the rectum of severability
gravity defeats
I see your downward dog
the alienation that seeks
next slide please
This is (lazy) susan's horizon
sunset at dawn aka binary vision
whose whale eyes opt out
Ears closer to eyes than my mouth
Graph of transparency for transparency's sake
I used to hate your Luscious pup
it seems to know empowerment
it knows how to work its
"what-is-it-likeness" into the poem

In California they speak directly to you
I dig the pretty good privacy
and embrace the 3 second rule
Euphemism for small handedness
Hello crumbs!
Its productive process writes
modest subject I don't understand
indivisible by any ration
Filed under non-resuscitation order
one night I discovered
transcendental number
driving home in the year of the Hallucinogen
presumptive economy vs placebo effect

Gnostic Two Bagger

… like taking a shit in the Taj Mahal.    

       -Leonard Baskin

Four up

Edition of 160

White horse

In tents

Chief Wets It Assiniboine

under canvas flap

Lenny's totemic

No middle name

aswim on planks

The bodiless barter

endless Denizens of camp

regurgitate and gasp

Chisel bequeaths boy

and bug

Boy & bugs

Tuesday abbreviated workout

Lasik surgery

‎Colgate

Olive garden

Hepatitis C

Oil of Olay

‎Home advisor

‎Miralax

Let's make a deal

Survivor

Bold and beautiful

Laziness is the source

Inextricable bond

phantom with the same mess

wrap around reality

absorbed in compulsory

eyepatch

It felt telepathic

Laziness is the source

To exist is one thing

at 8 o'clock noon is perceived

the story of a british man

Friday's precarious unease

If ecstacy is frugality of need

(I mean the joy of barely covering it)

As if duplicated in countless

walks they ignore

& give up on science

The real coup reserved

for riding in the sun

A woman now dead

not a nose but more relaxed

naked or clothed in extensive folds

bearing intimately w/itself

The opposite fr(e)ud

herding together its litany

It's not awake it's not

the get up & go

it's not the voice

Laziness is the source

Jewel of modular design

Closed for undeserved pleasure

Abducted with poison

Marching on foot

Why is there nothing rather than something

Scapegoat headfirst

& by diversity sentenced

by the fumes of indigestion

by the vapor of charcoal

by this friendly yet anxious night

After cruel slaughter

provision with cicadas

sanctuary with aching bones

 

Laziness is the source

Phrases punctuate the quest

False appearance in the place

reserved for words Sleep

tireless voyeur of image

Susceptible to happiness

vertigo of implacable flesh

indifferent to questions

to the physics to come

ps. stunned to be streaming

the greatest

head first in chaos

we lose our dogs our youth

our love to suppose

terror the ability to remember

to bite

the ship awake

Signage

Here come the sighs

distinct ingredient or advent

how one belongs

ingression notwithstanding

Survived non-neutral slug

bullet or bourbon

Yowling gulls

in more technical terms

a creepy crawler

Not requisite for contradiction

I’d love to make

friends with maritime guide

mistaken for tavern law

‎Each presweetened song

deleted stanza by stanza

each upworthy plunge

each ceasefire

means poetry undone

The sign said please

stop viral uncertainty

stop abandoned son

HAT RED & ORANGE ALL OVER

    Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of Humor 

    itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. 

                                             - Mark Twain

I voted for the comedian for dog catcher

Rodney Dangerfield for the supreme corpse

I voted against the socialization

of inner life but lost

I is so evil, it tells on itself

poems like so many politicians

Then we listened to Leslie Gore’s It’s my party

adopted as 28th amendment

Indescribable in & outs

parking is such sorrow

Unstorifiable & zipless

at mile high club

Footballers rooting

for mongrel collision no Pitbull

39 instances in 14 documents

governed by cigars & champagne

I heart poultry

watching sausage being made

The clown laid out on cobwebs

hits me until the typos hurt

No more clean and jerky

no more snatch & grab

no more 1000 dollar necklace

trapped in this cocoon

waiting for them to come 

& eat me

New logo for geode

Leaning in
in plastic embrace

Desire for ear
for nosebleed for another
cloak in M-dash
Mother of all intimate touch

Similes or
syllables
less words
Letters
less
phonemes

‎

Colony Collapse Disorder

I flushed my masculine

product down the tubes

‎All four eyes

one at a time

Sequence preset to concrete

If boundaries = death

all threats ascend

to the power of verse

My analogue queen

is Miss Recognition

the beauty contestant

who lost her aesthetic powers

Beyond cognition

My jealous god skipped

ahead to read backwards

Let’s drink to Heimlich maneuvers

Out with it Dear!

I was yours

truly an oddity

in search of an end

Jesus draws a blank

There is no scene

No revolution of I don't care

All bullshit jobs

Birkinis & bikinis

because recognition will kill us

No middle way to worry

No alien vernacular

No varnish stain

winnowing its way upstream

We sprang to – to soil

life in the soft buzz

of the topical cave

Failing to learn each according to each

failing to embrace each shadow made

because despondency

because I mean who are you

some ‎Girl band

pirate with that labored look

stolen at the scene of production

You're free to think

what’s unhoused and dirtier

‎at elitist Dog and Pony

subject to this

Kingdom of Pure affection

enjoying communal bath

Purity the echo that contradicts