ABORT RETRY FAIL
A suction of rotors squeezing
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Monthly Archives: November 2012
SUNDAY ROUNDUP
An eco-sensitive minimalist, he tagged his targets
on oversized Post-it notes. Cops could never make […]
THE UNACCEPTABLE LACE OF CAPITALISM
Police Japan trying to curb unsavory trade.
Three businessmen vending machines sell […]
SMART MONEY
Smart money swaggers into the room and eats
your lunch, then swivels and pauses, issuing […]
POLITICS: NO STONES NO FISH NO WIND
Of course there’s always a girl
in distress. But the trust […]
JET LAG: SOMETIMES IT COMES TO THIS
Another planeload of baguettes leaves France.
Gay frogs leap into silk sheets and rivet. […]
PULSE POINTS
In dreams, your breasts are perfect and skin
thick fur against the cold of this distance. […]
LOST AISLE OF DOGS (SHOPPING SAFEWAY)
Kill only things you understand, all else
let go. The maid spanks her lord like clockwork. […]
BLUES FOR FATMAN
You. I sensed you in the sweet vulgar smell
of new Buicks, English Leather, and walls […]
BIG CRINKLY
Unzippered speech of children,
shushed at school and museum, […]
THE TOWN CRIER
Bindlestiff with bonebreak skin and laptop,
batteries running low. The bilge water […]
SHATTER GLASS / KRISTALLNACHT
The pane of glass exploding like the sheets
of Klansmen riding like the ancient tailor freezing […]
FREE TIBET
Trekking in Tibet I meet the Dalai Lama.
Hello Dalai. Hello David. After some […]
BUGS
When humans watch the sky for holes, then kiss
all plants goodbye and suck down freeze-dried food […]
POEM FOR A BUSINESSMAN (ME)
Sympathy, to begin with, is a problem.
The hotels are okay and there’s free soap […]
FAILURES
Sometimes failure is just failure and not
injustice. Nothing succeeds like success. […]
WAFFLES
All the crummy things that happen
on a day-to-day basis—a perfect beer […]
TODAY’S PLANE CRASH
A bluebird in my garden pecking
at the dead butterfly is me. […]
TRANSFORMATIONS
The way lightning touches a deer’s antler
on the lusty rock outcrop—foraging […]
EDGE CITY
Machete elbow of camera slashing pictures
out of context: the local real-estate […]
SPIEL
A young man on a French beach
wading in the light surf and wan sun […]
PIRATES
Five men on their knees in the sand, arms lashed
behind their backs. Ships in the calm distance, […]
BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC, 1860–2004
Let us cross over the river and rest
under the shade of the trees. Melisma […]
HUSH-HARBOR (THE OLD SOUTH)
In the stony glistening woods, we gathered
after dark, never considering ourselves […]
FREEDOM OF / FREEDOM TO
A spiky purple ridge is all that’s left
of yesterday. Let’s celebrate tomorrow […]
LEH OVER IN KASHMIR: ALCHEMY OF TRAVEL
Like a horror movie just before the girl
gets it, or industrial rumble of refining […]
RATED X
The facts don’t lie: women have been chopping
men’s members since the first stone tools got sharp […]
REVOLUTIONARY POLITICS
Forced water must be blown, warning lights
observed and blower valves respected […]
INDEPENDENCE DAY: PLAZA DE ARMAS, CUSCO
The Spanish have dismounted and still stand
at attention on the reviewing stand, […]
BROKEN COUNTRY SCRAMBLE
The river’s applause fades round the ridge
like a candled freedom snuffed by a junta: […]
DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS
Lying in the rotting sun, shining white,
the embassy turns its air full-blast. Red […]
STATE OF AFFAIRS OF STATE
Lamp black, flesh tint, scarlet lake, cobalt
violet: colors of the president’s deep afternoon […]
JUST ASKING
If you could kill anyone and get away
with it, who would you kill? Would you choose to axe […]
MOSAIC WIPE
Like I said
Like I said sir […]
DUE PROCESS
How much they owe you? Boy: fourteen, gawky,
braces, B+, shortstop, oboe, debate, […]
NEWSWORTHY
The actress imploding in the strobed flash
of fame. Or the universe expanding, fat […]
UGLY BEAUTY
Qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm makes no sense yet
represents a certain kind of logic. Samewise […]
WELFARE REFORM
Mr. Full, I’m Mr. Empty. Rub my bones
together to spark a wispy fire. Swallow […]
ESCAPE VELOCITY
Thrust then blur, ripe speed, a gentle pricking
of atmosphere into the black yonder: […]
GROWING
The static frizzle between sense and nonsense
is a sonic mulch much favored by fast-growing […]
JUMPING OVER YOUR SHADOW SLASH LANDSCAPE WITH SQUEEGEE
Knockdown-dragout tween arched guitar and fatback drums, a bass line
punches the one with thumbslap torque, wobbling excited atoms. Form […]
THE GUITARIST
The guitarist goes home to the old home
where his father died. Gutbucket hospital […]