Shiny object

I lack all feeling for

what speaks thru parentheses

If gesture cut loose

wrangled yet undefined

I punched the mirror

it’s my repugnant theatre

I chose the tangent

internalized the negative

& sold myself a bill of goods

Have I told you the story of the

ventriloquized scream

(she says she is in pain)

We seek pencil on paper

a deadpan translation

& struggle for stubborn facts

so that the weak may triumph

if there were time to take time

I would subtract myself

& yield to the senator from Minnesota or Maine

or rather opt for nullset or muzzle

& question my body's response

answers captive to the memory of music

I lack all feel for what speaks

(night in which all cows were black)

Paradise if you don’t mind the extremes

the outliers the laughter the tumultuous

drone the placebo

The intoxication coupled in place

with complicit tears

I lack all feeling for

what speaks thru parentheses

(discourse of the unsaid)

exempt from superego

We found your reciprocal angel at the 99 cent store

A barbarism absent all ideology

how to mimic doxa

(inseam of digestive tract)

how to return the pitched ball

how to become proximate cause

to the point of indifference