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Make it
or break it                         How do you go about writing a life
       it                         or living a life you don't want
 vote for                            thrust your pelvis into the air.
 efficiency of writing         writing devolves the more tired you get.

Negro totem place a marker            We're ready for the bonbons.
phallic image fop it to the margin    Change the world as you change
buttressed in its casing just as      the subject.
sausage lives with a rice queen
XYZ with your faggots                 Emma             You've lost some
"I need a valium."                    couldn't         weight, porkchop.
                                   care             Hat period.
Olympia Dukakis' tongue               less             Feed me a cheese
                                                    burger.
sub  iecto  TV antennae          let's have sex again
(from) under to come up                   call my bluff
         Bing                         or coral reef
         Crosby                       a lot somewhere
                                          is empty

I'll go get your poop.                  When did you finally decide to
Fresh-squeezed orange juice             give in?  Symmetry is nature
& the chance to win millions            's allusion.  Lift it up
Make a fly trap                      & tilt it.
hang it on the wall                  Shift your stance & you'll see.
What are you doing in this city             Pensive, naked, indulging
with its colorful edifice pitched        the average baby weighs six
against a sky as obdurate as a               pounds eight ounces.
walrus defending its pups?                African princess.
Yes that was a question.                  I'm a waiter.
Sell a vitamin                        Wear a wineglass, spread it open.
make it look like something else.
 I have to go.

Sanka or french press.               
I may be pregnant.
I know.
Double breasted jacket                  It's a waste of time.
warmer in southern tropes                 Irrevocably irreparable
Capricorn speedo assailant                or something comparable.
Name the nature of composition
 Back pocket
 there is the note I left you.  

It as it

A poem (to) (that) walks
  on water
It as it
relates to sight, sound
makes a felt as object
   but then switches.
The guide is not philosophy
  It's time to begin thinking
   about your retirement plan.
This book is running out
  of pages.
    Make is left or right.
It's as if it's as now or later,
   as it's a little dream
   a little smaller
   it's complicated
Increased complexity in a system
need not necessitate increased complexity.
   Sentence as 
(somewhere)
          forward
The poet worries about its size
but it's of average length.  

Attendant to each
thought is thought
This is nothing 
new as it is
under the sun.
Attached so deeply 
to the image.
Enact daily rituals.
My hand.  Put in a bit
of physical labor.

   Use your magic wand to
walk along a grid, pud-
dles, treetops
   sore muscles
 all this in one day, move
forward & backward, or

Up & down, flight of 
  stairs is an odd
      expression.
      expressive
selves, too.  Do
you want paper or plastic?

In Progress

                                                         An infinite logic
                                                         undiluted by form
                                                         a bit of a question left
                                                         on parched lips
From city dweller to countryman
                            a thousand bells
                                       tolling       bits of memory
                                       a unique presence     schemata
To make something is to give over
                                                     left with a bit of
                                                             a question

This is instinct
   listen to the rain    outside
   or else your face split 
   apart entirely.  
Asking why is your order
 granted in the midst of this chaos.  
                                         (as a 
                         border under pressure of doubt, as a border in question)
Then suddenly middle-aged
   from end to end
     veins spread thin to be so enamored
If I think        views
                                          It's never where I
                                          'd like it to be
It's hard to conceive of this 
in English     borrowing from myself
the sentence setsup  dynamics of power
        by necessity
        thirst   hunger
                                          Into that disordered
                                          field,    a word alone
                                          is every word or
                                          something similarly situated
This is insistent
        a promise?
        a negotiable suture.

or otherwise

Boxes within boxes
be that as it may
if it's it's me
then a mystical
figure or a
virtue you
've got to be
kidding me.

Another Untitled

Public, all previous
that would prohibit historic
individuals, marking
opportunities for health
& opportunities.

I'm very pleased to
make a difference
during or expression as
the event.

Testimony, a quiet
a rival was teeming,
seeking, pleaded
now in the hands
of
the only witness.

These things could be a lot worse.
Or the proposal that language
has upset opponents
who think much more than 
mere consideration in other matters
once used to affect.
   If to recollect
   to mean to put
   things in a place.