“I fail to feed your children I, mere stripling am at-struggle with scree.” Up from the valley grass to the … More
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Kosovo, 1999: Flowers have gone to children, every one
I forced did make the mountains a hard home for my children slender I forced on them such leaves and … More
David come Goliath in olive grove lament (v202410)
Oh, Pioneers blessed directed destined . Slave come master servant come owner filthy serf come immaculate tyrant sharecropper become deed-holder … More
David come Goliath in olive grove lament (v202603)
Oh, Pioneers blessed directed destined . Slave come master servant come owner filthy serf come anointed tyrant sharecropper come deed-holder … More
Abandon. Azimuth. Now.
Take your mayor w you Your pimps Your whores Your civil engineers Your baseball scores “Welcome to the wood-chipper” … More
Welcome to the wood-chipper (ded to Zach)
Take your mayor w you Your pimps Your whores Your civil engineers Your baseball scores “Welcome to the wood-chipper” Same … More
The Battle of Minneapolis (war in the great north woods)
THEN: stock-still monk in sun-spot flames concentrate his skin, our illusions flayed by the flames, left him relief from belief … More
All these years, praying to the wrong rock? Doubt not the geometers of spiders and gods
Doubt not the geometers of spiders and gods They’ve directed us to the incorrect rock So we pray the … More
The Battle of Minneapolis (Bovino v Ghandi)
You brought Wagner we brought whistles . you brought acid we brought nana’s umbrella . you brought pepper we brought … More
The Battle of Minneapolis (meaning survives in shards)
With you face-down, head-first, in the Waffle House toilet bowl, I will show you your fears in handfuls of broken … More
The Battle of Minneapolis (resolve unencumbered by hope)
. We be resolve unencumbered by hope unstained by innocence . cuidado amigo .
The Battle of Minneapolis (as any ass-bone)
Welcome to the pre-party, party-people, be proud while you may of your post-apoc trenchcoats your inflatable-doll dystopia your Il Duce … More
¿ Why should I on my horse so high
With chumps-a-plenty ¿ Why should i On my horse so high
Surrender, unfurled
Like a Huck Finn rag on a Tom Sawyer stick
The frog knowz (as told to me by MR TOAD)
The second he slips off his big-boy pants Tiptoes into the 5-gallon pot The frog knowz He’s bound to die … More
In the days before the Large Language Models sucked our brains out through paper straws
Annie nailed the notice to the cross . In the days before The Large Language Models Sucked our brains out … More
The frog knowz
The second he slips off his big-boy pants Tiptoes into the 5-gallon pot The frog knowz He’s bound to die … More
El sapo sepo, rana, maco y taco (Don Frog con los Reflecting Pool Blues)
Don Frog El dueño Del lago Vaciólo Lo poné en fuego . Y ex post facto Durmió con la caca … More
The frog knowz (as told to me by CRAYFISH, ESQ)
The second he slips off his big-boy pants Tiptoes into the 5-gallon pot The frog knowz He’s bound to die … More
Across the Passaic from Walt Whitman’s Manhattan
She’d have hung her Persian flag, all upside-down tulip, over the terrace like any neglected clitoris (Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, DC, 2023 after the book-signing)
If not for her being trapped in the cheap seats Lying to her new friends about it all
Let us not revive father with the whiskey
We met in the time of clouds Of gulls going north to mercy and charm Conversely I held self in … More
Gramps, lies and videotape (c timehack)
00:03 [Music] nothing wrong with the old man cheers salute salute cheers and to you Annie picture here briefly everything … More
She looks totally Persian, but man, she, she is pure Mongol (Nick Cave concert, DC, 2023)
she’ll rip your lungs out, Jim
She who baldly offered upon a Boston plaza
“ Do you want a hug? “ Baldly, Boldly. She who: “ Take me worst I bare my all to … More
Handwritten-her
#tseliot the self-loathe the superior-self the stupid fake accent #eecummings threw majesty mastery in our faces like wings yanked off … More
For want of a nail, we puny and frail
For want of a nail, we puny and frail . Her, tanned, the ready for the lampshade . Hers an … More
Seek lips, search eyes
They dance across her freckle-face the ever-move never-stop sideways lips soundless search like eyes for anchor as bottom-feeds her slippery … More
After the daughter’s wedding in Boston
So at dusk on Boston’s North End rich with delicate plums hanging heavy and purple their skins taut and glistening … More
i need new friends
By 2030, make meaningfulness gains, comparable to the athletic gains that i’ve made since 2022 Become more effective in my … More
Upon my friend encountering his first raptor
Like any discerning peregrine Your handsome hooded friend bore well away from the black-holes of carrion-crows Your condor sailed not … More
Oh, yeah, she looked right at me as she took a bunsen-burner to each my totem in turn
. . burning sensation, boo . baubles few . ¿ et tu oui, non plus . fuck me, no fuck … More
? Is it such a crime i think more of you
than you