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

The Battle of Minneapolis (resolve unencumbered by hope)

. We be resolve unencumbered by hope unstained by innocence . cuidado amigo .

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 (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

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

Let’s accesorize Kristi Noem’s Goebbels outfit

Strychnine froth her mercury mouth . strokes herself . out front the prison gates . broadcasts her Mad Magazine dreadnought-tits-sans-portfolio … More

The Gelding of the Generals (Captain my Captain)

Arrived did we From land from sea In ranks of three by three On our hands sat we Obediently Sans … More

Stanley see the big big sea

for stanley as you can see lacking memory one must go to the sea see the pretty maypoles hand in … More

Stanley seek the big big sea

stanley at dropbox for stanley as you can see lacking memory one must go to the sea see the pretty … More

Jerez: Our stones beg for a river

Our stones shear, like our religions. There’s the catch, the shiver. The believer, he beg for a river.

I smell the blood (Goliath)

Gazador. Haganah. Picador. Matador. Gazaerilla. Zionista. Zionistero. Sinister. Zionastero. Zoroastrian. Levantine. Guerrero Gazaíne. Pogrom Gazaíne. Dresden-Gazaíne. Credenza. Dresdenza. Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum.

Hey, chatGPT, paint me a religion in tempera that I’ll believe

She’d have hung her Persian flag, all upside-down tulip, over the terrace like any moonshine clitoris (Nick Cave concert, DC, 2023)

if not for her being trapped in the cheap seats Lying to her new friends about it all.

Upon once meeting the Queen of Persia (Nick Cave concert, DC, 2023)

After her father’s death: She had expected an uplifting She had foreseen an exaltation There had been signs There were … More

She looks totally Persian, but man, she, she is pure Mongol (Nick Cave concert, DC, 2023)

she’ll rip your lungs out, Jim

jack, dog, dust

if only i knew that table rock that saddle gap i would lie me there until i too, turn to air … More

jack, dog, speaks at the captain’s funeral

them heathen took you, my captain, yes you, my captain my commander, my every thing my only thing yes, you, … More

jack, dog, awakes (my sky fall down)

my sky collapsed like a continent my voice broke in that thin air before you up-seen, then carbine-down those … More

Grab yer daddy like a grudge

Siblings and other suspects

for x in {} ; do ; Cheney|Rasputin –> Bush|Fudd.Elmer|0 ; sprintf { Clerk ^ Raptor ^ Cockroach } ; … More

“If only my Daddy hadn’t been such a pussy.” (George) …

“If only my Daddy hadn’t been such a pussy.” (George) . . . “Who’s your Daddy!” (Dick)

Burden of family, unassumed

Word on the street is that Don is going to move, again. I’ve heard authoritative sources say that Don’s recovery … More

Siblings and other brutes

for x in {} ; Chekhov::Zhivago ; Cheney/Rasputin::Bush/Elmer.Fudd ; McNamara::Rumsfeld ; Dulles.a::Dulles.jf ; Cheney::Chalabi::Piper.Pied.Ponzi ; Perle.Richard::Wolfowitz.Paul ; Bremer.JPaul{Jerry}::Jones.Jim ; Wilson.Charlie::Appleseed.Johnny … More

Out the tailpipe in the mouthpipe

Joe, NPO

cloverleaving through the night cleaving unto what’s right seething, disbelieving: they chickens they goats “don’t trust a man with a … More

Song of the crow-keeper in the desert southwest, v0

That very afternoon among the licking of tattoos, the kissing of scars, that bevel edge, the dolphin side, the pain … More

Then Hong Kong, the snowboard, the concussion, the Matthew Sweet, the TS Eliot

@ LTF … Then Hong Kong, the snowboard concussion, the Matthew Sweet, the Peper-gone, Haley her mother, her migraines, her … More

Young lieutenants at End-Evening-Nautical-Twilight

180 miles east of Los Angeles’ pointless summers ran shaven, heady, lieutenants low-spark’d, high-heel’d, bat-faced wayward boys, they counted coup … More