Wednesday, March 28, 2007

sum archives

bugpowder dust
every day i go the pond
and listen to this soundtrack hippie craque
sent, i'm framing the original art
work and liner notez cuz
they're original but the thing is i don't
consciously chose to listen
it's just my antenna fell off
and now i can't get democracy now at lunch and then
my fragged out mind forgets
to get a different cd so i've been listening
for weeks to this cd it has
the beatles and led zep and mars volta but
also some peeps
i dn't know who they are like
my favorite is a techno rap , eaten
alive with naked lunch refs my daughter sez
it reminds her of the movie
which the liner notes confirm but i still don't know how
this dude mixed it so fine that no
matter what kind of bird or suv or butterfly like
this dude yesterday
walkin all the way
from stephen dunn inc to my car
for a light
drops in at the pond, this song wraps
the visual in tendrils of paxilTM
as if the opening of scene of kpax was done
in music instead of light.


6 minit pome
outside a half
hour ago suddenly
the sky had changed
from cornflower to billowing grey.
i think of historical confederate
sites, the museum of crime and punishment
the ad's entreaty to get your lunch
at the last chance cafe.

i've spent the whole day producing
a rework of an engineering fuckup.
dealing with the pragmatic fact that
things that look good on paper
often aren't robust enough
to stand the real world

and it isn't till you've built the first
thousand that the customer complains.
then comes the retrofit.
squeezing different parts on to available real estate.
getting impedences to match.
i'm just thankful it's not my job to figure it out
that all i gotta do is remove, replace, retest.




nine of cups

here at work i keep banging
my head against the glass
ceiling but i don't know why cuz
i'm not trying to get beyond it
just away from it.

what a shirker.

i call home and yr depressed
but it's just the usual noises
so i tell ya to smoke some meds.

things look good, then they look bad.
i got some foreknowlege beating me with a forelock.
the same thing's messin you up about the world's
messin me up about us. so i ask the tarot.
it says to stop whining. que sera sera.

seraphim and cherubim line the antique roadside chain
link fence. also some plastic lifesize deer. i can't
imagine why anyone who lives in the mountain
would put fake deer in their yards. you say
"amerikunz r stoopid". i nod my head to the beat
of the burning books. rolleyes when i have to explain
to another voter why gas is cheap right now.
get em while they hot.















anyway. overflowething.
fount of hap
of hap..
piness( i had some trouble finishing that
thought) it's a threesome
i have issues with, electronic cards
notwithstanding the ring tone of my id.

just like a sage advisor's, i ignore
what the damn things are saying.
i lost my psychic in training t in one of my moves
and i'm not gettin it back. still,
when the phone rings, i always know if it's you.





the earth's skin looks like elephant hide
there's bracken in the cistern
you want a drink but it won't be clean.

fissures open, obsidian spews out- large
chunks, like after a night of too much.

she's crying on the phone to you now.
the line fills with sulphur and static.

you don't know what you did
but you begin to imagine you'll never be quenched.






the domain of attraction of the super-attracting fixed point

we thought three lanes
would be enough. but we kept
being born, and each of us needed
a vehicle. cloverleafs shrink
bypasses expand, the angels wings
are concrete but they fly
us above birds and smog alike.
let us give praise.










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it was time for the iteration to go negative.
she could tell from the way the waves sounded less
like sponges than before. she pictured him walking
up the hill backward, to the flat part of the story
where they'd once shared an apple pie cut in thirds.
his caterpillar eyelashes, his hair spun of metaphors.
he's asking her to cut it now. she thinks of temples
and destruction. delilah and divorces.
with each curl he falls further from understanding
just like she didn't, then. but now
then begins to crumble like earthquake, higher
mathematics lose their glow. the fractals
take their bongs and go home, petulant
like lovers with their livers eaten out.
she remembers to kiss prometheus
just before the sun sets.
his hair is so sixties.















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"i wrote that pome with rush limbaugh's dick
tied behind my back"
-chinaski, forgotten tickets from the racetrack














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unwitting


he said you made me
write a haiku, then stood to
push the window closed.
















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what if i said it was all cooked up
would you feel tricked?
i have a hat i like to wear.
it makes me squirm
but no king except the mad
will kill the one wears it.
you plotted the murder of a friend
his rescue was the shiny roads of america.
i flounced to his side like the cartoon that i am
shaking hands with all the motorhomes along the way.
we went seventy in the slow lane all the way cross georgia. antebellum houses snored in their sunday best
while you and i tortured disney hits for their lunch money.
for miles we thought of tifton whenever the signs
told us to. tifton, the reading capital of the world.

you amused us with gifs, but the cell service
cut out near the cottonfields. so we had to roll
our own jokes, starring billy bob and the national
arts council & education bureau. "no one reads billy bob,
especially not goin ninety down seventy five!"
but he endured. forgot the onepointeight percent
probably would see past the subterfuge on the billboards.
they fired him after the first year, but ads still stand.
think. tifton. in the summer. think hell. think god
it's october and the weather is stunning.
after the bar b q, i drive. the sun is warpaint thru the pines
lining the roadside with bright bladed
vestigial memories of our genocides.
i want to eat three cigarettes on the edge of the cotton
while i stare at that light, but a winnebago towing
a race car trailer, a miniaturized double cargo truck
weaves into my lane just ahead. i turn off the sneaker pimps
light a cigarette, limp toward that distant x, that siren wart
on the limp dick of this country(erect if you look at the damn
map sideways from space) where my history is writ
trailer large and flood plain jangly
a.waiting the next iteration of desire.










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noverili
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(10/23/06 11:04 pm)
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we thought three lanes
would be enough. but the fuking lemmings keep
multiplying
we're widening the I
66 - 88 - 110 - all the way to PI infinite
allowing 2.6 yards for the just born interstate
and 6.2 for those droppin off intestate
cause this causeway's never done
and the cliff that we're boring through is
always cavin' in
too fast for the struts and the trestles to keep up


and each of us needs a 4 wheel drive
to feel lucky on the cloverleafs shrunk
to 3-balled clubs grasped in hairy hands
of the scary trolls under every underpass
too high and bonk on the head
canoe srongs fre of the bungees
lemmings dying like flyballs mid-tracj
stalling with that heavy sudden fallin

i tell you
dying like flies from the bypass
caught in a mitt
in the infield
shrunk to secondary trunks
tight as a surgery
i got one change of underwear left
gonna trade that for
a pair of wings
on a pink elephant
heavy as abutments but they fly
above the glove compartment
moths and bugs and smog alike.
as grey as gray
let us give praise

i got a ticket to ride










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and then it just goes dim




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