Saturday, March 24, 2012

Being in Public


i.





Gabby, your figure is pregnant
Now let me nurse you
To natural birth








Arise                                                                             in the seat of our beings








            A rise









                                                                                                            From the zone










Today, the wound resigned
It needs time
To recover, she said
She will be back, she said
To serve again

I.

The speaker    fighting his self
Cries
The party
They    they all cry

They are all moved

We       after following the reports
So long as we all follow          have followed the reports
are also moved

As the friend of the holder
Of the wound
Notes the reader         speaking         nodding
Reading the note        how

As another     
She cannot make its letters
Sound              fully

Still
Claps  not what she deserved
Not even her
Still     claps    yet

What of the advantage?
Still     so long remaining
Still

Retirement
Or suspension—is one
Not the other
Anymore
Now

What of the advantage
Today            afterwards?
What of the state
Of the wound’s
permanence?

II.

Who cares
For it
No one wonders

It is
Cared for
All is based on
That    they
We suppose

III. (Zone B)
And for those caring of
For the caring
Care, advantage
In the works
Of the wound

Unlike its maker
Her husband knows
Intimately in
His decision
To bend
To her
Slurs

Graciously
Famously

We claim him
In stars we shroud him
His blood is more than
Holy, proven so not only
Now, but before
Too
To us
We claim him
He is ours as we claim
Her for ourselves
So she is ours
As she claimed us
For her self
For her advantage
For her wound
Claimed her
For us
For everyone
For us all as well
As well as us
As did we
We did today

Doubting a return
Like today’s
After the claiming
By all

Stood her
It thinking       limiting her
For her            he thinks        crying
Sincerely at that
A moment       them all
Speaking to
But also for     the household
Arizona
Ohio
Think of everything
The state of
The union here today

The lack
Forming it
Lending itself
Its damage to confront
The affront done
To us all by it
All


IV.











M, sounds good. I'm shooting P an email now.

Nice to hear about A stopping by. I was, to be honest, very excited to tell him the tentatively good news
when I saw him at the cafe yesterday.  

Talked to J. He had no particular knowledge regarding S's accommodations, but doubted that the foundation would provide a work visa by merit of my potential grant. S is more comfortable playing it loose than I am, though, so if I do receive the F, well be going and working her public life out on the cuff. A’s immigration website is friendlier than I expected. Here's hoping a college degree and staff experience at a library qualify a "skilled worker."

Thanks again,
C







Gabby,
Are you able to ask for help
When you want it
Or do you have to motion,
            Trusting an understanding?

How was the reading of you letter arranged
And how written?

I ask because it seems so
Important to the consensus built.

Surely you recognize
Its rarity.

You broke an era
By merit of your being broken

Brought the aisles to their feet
For nothing

A contribution
To the war on drugs


From Mexican
Cartels                        not ours
From Mexico

That’s             all
The bald men
Led to.

The one that loves you
The other that
Adorned you

With your perfect lack
Of skills          making
Room for         grace and

Leaving the star         
Of your seat
Nothing to talk about

            they both
Led to
Nothing

While your seat
Remains something
To us all

When it is still             important
To me                          at least
And I know your record

I knows its good
But not great and that
The next will be worse

Almost assuredly
The next will be
Worse

Than you        and you
Didn’t even
Go out


Well
Enough
For today


V. Zone I

Home

In her body
She feels it

Eating
She      feels it

It is      nothing
Eating something

Making it        out of nothing
As she is used to

Tho nothing
Is past

It is      in her
It is      eating her

As she and we
Are eating it    in her  

Wanting her    to
Reenter           it         

For us              but
With it

Monday, March 19, 2012

Action in History



It was an impossible plane in that world. . . Men believed in him.
W.C.W.

The ground is moving
Beneath him    it moves
With him        

With his changing
Changes          come
Into being        from formality

This is not new
Nor uncommon           but
Phenomenal    and fantastic

It is freedom of a real sort      
Well documented        and      making it-
self       continually creating    problems

For itself          in the environment of its making
For being freely made             it encounters
Its constitution                       a being in the new world

From a series of steps
A place            freedom
after     itself

Hence              there are duels
Challenges among the freed men
The loose and the dead

Whose outcomes we expect
Little of           but care greatly for
See the articulation!    How previously made             how little remains

But the structure!        The sound
Of history beating      becoming meaning
In meaningful ways

“O’ he was just mean”           they say
“His smile betrayed it all”     the niceties
and the women            “did you see him with his daughter?”

“They were too close”                        they say
“Its unnatural to love her as he did                and his wife”
—how beautiful                      “she bore a scar”        with her child


All this                        the charm
To explain the charm             
Away               always

For a killer in a fair fight        
Can’t be beat while fighting   or waking
For that matter           the world folds to such men

Even as their shape erodes
Taking with it everything       but a vigor
That matters   most

Only by omission       in fact              can such men be beat
The trade secret                      of a narrative now long          
Since decommissioned            the excavation beginning                    continuing here

As it has                     elsewhere
In other times              revealing
The striations of our time’s founding

Aaron Burr
Aaron Burr
Aaron Burr

The affixing of movement       a
Point when all were not          but
Some were       really   now famously so

Aaron Burr
Aaron Burr
Aaron Burr

II.

Think of Sade             removed
By a letter       publicly
Defeated         

His persistence           Paz’s volcano
The extremity of         his furor
 Its appropriate           enactment

In writing        by
Writing            coming
About              around him

In         Vincennes
In         the Bastille
In         Charenton

Following him                         loving him
Like a sister-in-law                 or manservant
Latour with                             under the Spanish fly

Only then                    right
After aphrodisiacs       right
Could he control         even his own nature

And even then             right
A foundation               right
In our world                right

His libertinage                        was he not
Already one                 before making
Himself                       others one

Hadn’t it already been           purchased       
Before Rose Keller                  her remarkable trait
Of not doing that                    for

Some things just can’t be bought      
From some                  so others
Must be made            

His freedom    then
As before         subject
To no one but itself

In         Vincennes
In         the Bastille
In         Charenton

Sade wrote the revolution
Before and after          it happened
Whether it listened      or not

Ears are the last of the sensual text’s concerns
As materials other than
Meals, wine and paper           to document were his

Ours now                    his writing
Its not rebellion           not peering outside its grounds
Nor indifferent to its creation             a real tragic thing

Thus something else   some
Part written for abundance     present
Materials        not a lack of others

He brought them
He consumed them     like never before
He made himself         what he was
                        

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Books offered by us


A List of Books Now Offered by the Cunny Isle Bemusement Park

Here is a list of books now offered by the Cunny Isle Bemusement Park’s Departments of Critical Exploratory Outreach, Domestic Bemusements, and Scientific Creativities.  Plz help us write these books. Some of them we have written, or will write, at your will, and we will send them to you, at yr will.  If you write one of these books before we do, plz send it to us, at our will.

Here's a really disorganized list of potential titles for probably potential, volitional books:



Take Yourself Out and Someone Else With You:  A Terrorist’s Guide to Dating All the Way To The End
1.       I Hope You Know A Lot More than You’re Believing
A lightly illustrated book about the modern problem—how we sift thru shit.
2.       “TV is your dildo of choice & I See Static In Your Future”
3.       “Dildos complicate pregnancy.”
4.       Get Broke Just For a Fix
5.       Turn Off Your Brain & Think About It
6.       Sexual Healing Just for the Feeling
7.       Suxx 2 B U Strawman
8.       “It’s funnier in quotes”
9.       If no genitals, do not resuscitate.
1   Let’s not sleep together thru this insomnia.
11.   I’m gonna make you get alone & then I’ll think to myself how you’re all alone.
12.   Alone by Ourselves Together In This
13.   How Can I Hold You When I’m All Ears?
14.   Don’t Go Into Labor When the Job Won’t Work
15.   Did you meme to say that?
16.   Handshakes & Hors d’oeuvres. 
17.   Cancer Humbled Me.
18.   Let’s leave this place and never come back until tomorrow.
19.   I just don’t have enough time to live out the rest of my days.
20.   Reclaiming the Reclaimed:  We’re Gonna Make that Mean Again
21.   Do You Enjoy Being Miserable?
22.   It’s high-time sumtin got its.
23.   I oughtta kill u for being alive.
24.   I Tried It & Now I’m Proud of my Face.
25.   Life is No Place for a Kitty-Cat.
26.   Good Looks from Ugly People
27.   Ugly Looks from Good People
28.   Pretty Soon It’s Like We’re Gonna Have Been Here Awhile
29.   Throw Some Color Where the Future Was
30.   Phthiriasis & Dices
31.   Poems U Kin Stik Ur Cock In2, Pomez 4 PPL Like U
32.   God is the All-You-Can-Eat of Shapes
33.   Fundraisers are for Communities that Don’t Exist.
34.   Tic Tac Tacos
35.   How To Carry Out Real Operations of Desire In the Material World
36.   Most People Go Through Life Using Up Half Their Energy Trying To Protect a Dignity They Never Had.
37.   Hands Alive to Eat the Breadcrumb of Her Face.
38.   Aye Eye I, canta no llores
39.   DIY DUI
40.   Notes on Stupidism
41.   Manual for the People
42.   Trust Me, It is Very Important that I Keep Lying to You
43.   How To Recover from Mental Laryngitis & Speak With A Different Voice
44.   Playing Marco Polo with a Charlatan Detector
45.   The BP Oil Spill:  An Erotic Novel of American Progress (in progress)
46.   Fragile Things Getting a Fair Shake
47.   It was a Cafeteria Year
48.   Things You Don’t Have to Think About
49.   I’ve Got a Bad Feeling I’m Coming
50.   In This Movie I Can’t Believe Keeps Happening
51.   My Blood Doesn’t Have Muscles
52.   Sex Toys Netflix HBO
53.   Iz Agile Like a Mongoose
54.   They Don’t Admit It. But People Like Eating Shit.
55.   “I Deserve to Drink All The Beers”—A Memoir by Christopher Nelms
56.   I was hoping you were a Type 2 Diabetic

Wouldn't a collaboration on a fake dialogue be kind of real?

Discuss.

Yackity Saxin' With Three Friends Conversationally Waxin'


1. “Gaunlet”


With my new corporate anti-perspiaspiration Sweat Defense,
I old-swagger spice and go public in the night.
Loneliness be gone! like a delicious pancake
Hoovered to break fast.
Jasonface joins me, tho bothered
like a sea-anemone dumbfound & prodded
By unattended, ridiculously attentive children.
I decide to never cut my toenails again for
I am too jealous of their raggedness.

Of Block-Fadely's ragged head
I cannot even speakeasy but to say
It hedges & I bet needs pruning
The easier for Jason's-face & I,
Public as sweatless toes now in the summer night,
To peer thru his windows & watch dirty Proustian things
& Maybe tag-team, at last, a Houdini
Poor Fadely won't sleep thru and then interrupt upon waking.


2. “Throne”

Sometimes life sends you two electronic mail items
at the same time (or at least with the same time-
STAMP, because electronic mailboxes arrange things
VERTICALLY, which is weird when you think about it:
the internet can do ANYTHING, but still this hierarchy;
why not a SPIRAL like when when you flush the co-
mode--WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH--
?)

One email was from Christopher Nelms, who I some-
times will call NELMSY, but only in electronic mail items.
He wrote a poem I didn't understand a goddamn word of.
I stood up.  I stepped from my office.  I poured some
coffee.  I sipped some coffee.  The coffee was lukewarm.
I'd turned off the warmer thing.  What's my problem? Why
would I have done such a thing? I do not care for lukewarm
coffee.  I returned to my office.  I will drink the coffee ANY-
WAY.

The other email was from Matthew Pulver.  He sent me
this link (now this poem has hypertext: now it is the
FUTURE).  Ye says he likes to see an artist come into his
OWN; he and Hova named their new album Watch the
THRONE.  That shit drops on August 1, 2011, and I will
BUY it.  The first single is called H.A.M., and the two rap-
pers rap they are "hard as a motherfucker" (HINT: the
title is an acronym).  But the first single isn't even ON the
album (unless you buy the DELUXE edition, which probably
I WILL), and that seems to be an intriguing marketing DE-
CISION.

I suppose I ought to mention Patrick Fadley in this poem.
Well, I'm glad I got that obligation over with, aren't YOU?
This is, with any luck, the very worst poem of my entire
LIFE.

PEACE
PEACE
PEACE
PEACE
PEACE
PEACE
PEACE
out.


3. “P.S.”

Anther email from Pulver: it seems
TIMBALAND likes bananas, holy shit
I ALSO like bananas to eat when I'm
laying down the sickest beats around.


4. "Thoughts on GMOA's Lamar Dudd Retrospective"

When the art museum goes on vacation
it puts on flip-flops, retrospectives.
Now that flip-flops are in fashion,
The sunscreened museum is always on vacation--the sun, that asshole, curtains its tail behind.
Splish splash we were taking a bath
and i farted
Pfffft frrrsssh Bernie Madoff made-off only to take a bath

Retrospective is hindsight is 20/20 is so so perfect
Retrospective is perfect eyes looking out of yr ass
Kind-hinds fine finds & find fines to remind all behinds
Shit with it
Get glaucoma in yr ass
Mistakenly mistake all fathers for pederasts
Blindly Exhibit A: the Blinding Blind Ass

Nice duds


5.

What is the use
Of all these poems?

Will they drop
The temperature

Or some panties?
No, the lines

Are like us:
Half-saturnine

Half-ridiculous.
And air control

Sights a new
Kind of cloud

Names it
Jason Matherly

Greek-warrior
Nimbus blatherer

Soon to rain
Translucent sperm

Onto the hesitant
Face of Earth

And NOAA
Spies a new sort

Of wave
Names it Nelms

Feel it wash
Between my toes

Like a cold tide
Of baby batter.


6.

And also: who the fuck is Pulver? I know no one
Who could rise to that. Are his eyes made of gaunt?
Are his shoulders cold and marled? Are his ribs
Fit to eat? I tender this sinister greeting, I guess.


7.

A cold tide of baby batter
Betters the stains of fecal matter
On Matherly's beard and under-face.
So much shit has taken place
I fear Matherly's naked face
Where bullshit, like Ulysses, returns home
To find bullshit-forms of bullshit-gnomic-gnomes
Usurping his own bullshit's rightful fuckbed and place.


8.  "Please Leave My Beard Out of This"

Pulver is a man, a man
who has done such things as this
and this and, yes, also this.
Pulver has made the world better,
through his online presence,
and presence at the Flicker Bar
and the UGA Science Library,
and he's the dude with whom
I can watch some NBA or the World Cup
even if it's the Women's World Cup.
I sometimes call him the "Pulverizer,"
but not to his face,
just when I'm leaving him a voicemail
after four-and-one-half vodka tonics.
I stopped drinking for a while, so
I don't all him that much any more.

Chris Nelms's new poem
about Lamar Dodd
is pretty right on
I guess, I don't know
I haven't seen the show.

His other poem
about yours truly,
on the other hand,
is clearly full of bullshit.
No, really.
It says a bunch of stuff
about bullshit. You know what?
Just go read the thing yourself.

Good to see Patsy
still has a sense of humor.
My shift is over, I'm going home.


9.  "Patrick Fadely's Phenomenology of Having Coffee and Waiting for a Porn Vid To Buffer"

A HOT MILF FUCKS HER SON'S BEST FRIEND.
COLLEGE RULES.
Daily updates
Faster streaming
Black, w/ no sugar502 Bad Gateway   nginx/0.853
YouPorn Premium
Buffered
Stroking
Rising
Clicks off the tab playing Ginuwine's "Pony"
Get in2 it
Hit play


10. "Happy B-day, Marshall McLuhan"

"Pony" is a fucking great jam
it still holds up pretty well and
the video reminds me of the Country
Rock, where once a lady asked me
why I wasn't dancing: they were playing
Vanilla Ice, "Ice Ice Baby."

Fadely, please be very careful
after you get that to buffer
not to spill your hot coffee
while you're buffin' it hard:
only one old lady gets to sue
Mickey D's every twenty years.

Story of a Diary

I, a penury-gifted snuff-film screenwriter & part-time legal proofreader, of sane mind and warily possessing passingly excellent  command of crossed-arms, wound-up-European-style language and Java-fueled conference-conjugal-room-speakerphone-jargon, have wanted to ask very few things from life and wanted even less to be troubled to make a list or a purpose or a purposive proposive list naming, first and foremost for most, the very few objects of my desire I have, considering my intellectually spiritual material poverty, neglected, too late now, for even life's expectedly silent close-captioned response, to ask.  But today, the darkly governmental day my girlfriend left me to go back to her Lithuanian husband with whom I share all physical traits except teeth and posture and crow's feet, has brought my failure directly into my heart with the speed and force of a 5 yr old girl sweetly handing me a mustard-stained crayon drawing of a last game of hangman I'd forgotten I'd agreed to play.

At a certain coffeeshop in which I used to attend watching sexually desirable female students concentrating intently on writing queer and feminist informed revisionary theses on Henry James and Ernest Hemingway, the floor was scuffed, divoted concrete leftover unimproved from the garage it used to be.

About halfway thru the store, near the creamer stand, the floor imperceptibly arose on a gentle incline such that returning from my cigarette on the pation, I always ended up scuffing my feet and stumbling due to my ape-lazy gait which hardly bothered to lift my feet more than 1/2 of a 1/2 inch  when locomoting.  If the way one walks thru life is shadowed, like those Jesus footprints on the beach one sees in Protestant homes, by the way one walks to get Doritos or condoms from the nearest Golden Pantry, then I have wasted my life on dragging feet.

But now I shall begin to name the things I want in life.  Though I tend to have wildly, balloon-animal inflated notions of my own literacy, I want my own personal, full-hipped & buxom bullshit inspector, a candy-apple love to call me out on & with my candycorn shit, a cotton-candy love to ground me to the earth like a prison-guard-parent taking away my car keys and hiding them in the ballasting sandbag weighing down the hot air balloon of my prided fast-food-value-menu-investment-expertise.

I want distinction and want it to come to me at a time wherein I can fool myself into believing I already had it, the distinction of choosing a wine I carefully researched and consequently being commended by those who've done their research on my exquisite taste and pairing abilities.  I distinctly want to subscribe to a magazine called Distinction which I can hide under an H&K 9 mm in each glove compartment of my 23 BMWs and 47 Mini Coopers, each one painted as a 3rd world nation's flag or American microbrewery logo.  I want to vomit hope for the afterlife somewhat unexpectedly.  I want work more interesting than a modest, postapocalyptic TV movie.  I want to ask bold children dying of obvious malnutrition, "Are you a drug addict? If so, do you believe in America?  Do you believe in America by looking for work?"  I want my mouth to distend in exaggerated shock and output singlehandedly the highest annual per capita output of elections of any country in the blonde, kaput-scratched stubble of the squeezed round cheeks of the world.

I want to weather Transhumanist enthusiasm with eyes-wide as a Hurricane the size of Jupiter descending red-eyed and overcaffeinated to Earth to rip it apart with floods and winds raping and impregnating its swans with the phrase "That's-not-strictly-true" raining acid cats and dogs like backasswards gods.

I want to go to the bathroom.  I want a kindly international hand to fall to the floor between my face and my fear, to fall like a sofa full of lost quarters and used needles, to fall like a rain of sofas offering with disgust their soft-comfort.

I want you to extend a toe and pull the entrepreneurial page to me.

To the familiar hour which adjusts under the ceiling of warning, let the specifics get their own tickets.  Working a knot of pain, the fastidious windows shall look less real unhelped by sighs, and somebody will come to the door, having made themselves clear.

We All Love Bea So Well


For Carrie Mumah


Bea and Bea were sisters and were almost twins.  One Bea was Beatrice and one Bea was Beatrix.  They were almost the same with one difference between them.  Beatrice Bea was a little girl with bangs who was always in bed and never left it.  Beatrix Bea was a little kitten who lived in her tree and often came to visit.  Beatrix Bea had her tree just up above the bed of Beatrice Bea who was always therefore underneath.  That is not so far to go.  Bea and Bea were so very close.  They were so close because Beatrice loved her bed so well.  They were so close because Beatrix loved her tree as well.  Beatrice loved Beatrix and Beatrix loved Beatrice.  Bea loved Bea and Bea loved Bea.  Bea and Bea were sisters and loved one another so very well.  This was how they lived and how they loved together.

One bright day Beatrice was feeling whiney.  She was feeling whiney and she was being whiney.  Beatrice was whining.  Beatrix wondered why was Beatrice whining.  It was bright it was hot it was shining.  It was the very hottest season.  That was the reason.  Beatrix wondered what could she do.  Beatrice was whining so.  So well Beatrix said to Beatrice, “Don’t be a sore baby.  Here is some sorbet, Bea.”  Sorbet Bea sorbet Bea sorbet Bea.  Now she was not whiney.

Beatrix Beatrix Beatrix Bea what do you see.  The wind was carrying something.  What could it be.  There are so many somethings that the wind could carry.  Beatrix saw it and Beatrice caught it.  They were a good team.  They were a very good team and what had they got.  It was paper.

It was made of paper and it was a bag.  It was a nice paper bag.  Beatrix could crawl inside.  Beatrice giggled at Beatrix but Beatrix knew what only a little kitten could know.  She knew how cuddly a paper bag could be.  So Beatrix Bea cuddled and cuddled and cuddled and cuddled and cuddled and cuddled inside her new paper bag.

The next morning Beatrice saw that the wind must have blown something else also.  It must have blown seeds because now there were flowers in a ring.  A ring around her bed all of lilies and lavender so lovely.  She said it was lovely but she thought it was strange to be in a ring.  What could it mean.

Then Beatrice Bea in her bed called up to Beatrix in her tree.  But Beatrix was being lazy she was still being sleepy.  She felt it was still rather early.  But Beatrice persisted.  She insisted.  She said, “Beatrix Beatrix Beatrix Beatrix Beatrix come and see a mystery.”  So Beatrix jumped to the bed from her tree.

Now there was a thing I forgot to mention and now I remember and now I will tell you.  Beatrix did not live just in a tree but she lived in a house.  The house was on a branch of the tree.  It was not a tree house even though it was a house and it was in a tree.  But really it was a doll house.  Beatrix lived in a doll house and so Beatrice always said, “You are a little doll.  You are made of little doll shaped pieces.”  So that morning Beatrix came down from her tree but first she came out of her little house for dolls.  And when she jumped down Beatrice could see that she Beatrix Bea had in her mouth a thing that was sparkling.  What did she have wondered Beatrice Bea.  It was another mystery.  “I found it in my little doll house,” said Beatrix Bea.  It was a diamond ring.  It was Beatrice Bea’s grandmother’s ring.  How did it arrive and where did it come from.  Beatrice gasped and  then she said, “Beatrix look at the flowers at the lilies and lavender they are shaped like a ring.”  And so then Beatrix also gasped.

But Beatrix was so excited she was too excited to think too long about the shape of the flowers.  This was how well she loved flowers and she absolutely loved lilies most of all.  She felt lilies to be most absolutely cuddly of all.  So she leaped into the lilies and cuddled them all.  There was a large patch of lilies and so Beatrice could see for so far many many lilies and at the end of them was being cuddly little Beatrix Bea.  It looked like this.

Lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily lily Beatrix.

Beatrice watched Beatrix and suddenly thought of something nice.  She was always thinking something nice.  This was especially nice.  Nice and pleasant she was thinking of a bath.  If she never left her bed then how could she how would she when and where should she enjoy a bath.  She thought and she though and she wondered and she dreamed.  A bath was best when the water was hot.  That is soothing and relaxing.  A bath a bath a bath how ever will it be little Beatrice Bea.

Soon enough the stars came out and it was time for Beatrix to go in.  She went into her little doll house because this is where she slept.  In her house up on a branch of her tree and the stars above and her Beatrice underneath.

Well the stars they twinkled and the stars they shone.  They flickered and blinked until Beatrix Bea did dream.  Of what did she dream what was the thing.  It was made of paper.  It was made of paper and it was yes it was her little paper bag.

In the morning when she awoke Beatrix did just what she wanted to do.  She cuddled with her paper bag.

Watching Beatrix gave Beatrice and idea.  No one knows how an idea gets in to someone.  No one knows but it does happen.  She had an idea about how to have her bath and never leave her bed.  Because a bath is like a bed.  She said it again and again.  A bath is like a bed a bath is like a bed it is like a bed a water bed.  How ever did Beatrice get such a thought in her head.

Then thought Beatrice all about something sweet.  Sweet sorbet.  You could eat sorbet in bed even in a water bed.  But sorbet.  What could it be.  Could sorbet be a bed.  Beatrice asked Beatrix, “Could sorbet be a bed.”

Beatrix said, “If sorbet could be a bed I would absolutely cuddle it.”

Then Beatrix Bea went back into her paper bag.  She curled herself into the shape of a ring.  It was time for little kittens to be getting sleepy.

Beatrix preferred her baths before bed.  She licked and she licked and licked and licked.  Beatrix Bea up in her tree licked herself clean.  Then she said, “Goodnight.”

So the stars all came out the stars came out.  Beatrice in her bed looked up and watched all the stars come out.  They danced around like a crown.  They danced around like a shimmery shiny sparkly something.  Beatrice thought of her grandmother’s ring.  She looked at her ring and she thought of Beatrix Bea curled up like a ring.  Well her grandmother was also named Beatrice.  She was the original Beatrice she was the very first.  So Beatrice loved Beatrix and also loved Beatrice.  She loved kitty witty catty watty little Beatrix Bea and she loved her grandmother Beatrice she loved them with glee.

Beatrice Bea fell asleep looking up at the doll house in the tree.  Her little love was inside snoring like a little baby.  Like a little baby doll.  Her doll house was for her because she was a baby doll.  It was grand it was the loveliest it was the most perfect most amazing most beautiful glorious incredible loveable and all together most interesting doll house there ever ever ever was.  But even better still was the baby sleeping snuggly.  Even better than the perfect house was the perfect doll.  Best of all was Beatrix Bea.

Now a story about stars and flowers.  This was what Beatrice dreamed of.  She dreamed that very long ago there were many many stars but there were not yet any flowers underneath.  The stars all twinkled and shone.  It made the earth long for something of its own.  So the sky gave a surprise.  It sent the earth  some stars.  But when they all arrived they seemed so different.  So the earth made them her own and their lights became petals and their flickering became sweet smells.  And the earth thanked the sky and the sky said, “I like what you have done with them.”  And then they hugged and their hug was the sea.  And this was what Beatrice dreamed.

The next morning she woke up and she looked up and what did she see.  She said, “The absolute biggest flower is a tree.”

Then Beatrice noticed a sad thing.  Something was missing.  What was missing was the flower ring.  All the little lilies and lavender had gone away.  And what was worse was what Beatrice noticed next.  It was awful it was terrible it was the worst thing there was.  Her grandmother’s ring was also vanished.

Beatrice began to whine and she began to cry.  Beatrix in her tree did not know what to do.  She only knew one thing to do.  She jumped down and started to cuddle.

But Beatrice kept on crying she kept on whining.  Beatrix had to think.  What helped her think was baths.  She ran back to her doll house and started to bathe.  Lick lick lick lick.  She was getting an idea.

She remembered a thing that Beatrice had said now how did it go.  Did she ask could sorbet be a bath.  Beatrix finished her bathing and ran out the door.  She ran to take sorbet to her little sore baby.  

So Beatrix jumped down to Beatrice in her bed.  She said, “I have brought you a feel-better gift.”  And then she cuddled up and purred.

And then a wonderful thing.  Beatrice scooped the sorbet and there on the spoon was nothing other than her grandmother’s ring.  How did it get there what did it mean.  It was a mystery.  Beatrice was so very happy.

This was so exciting it made Beatrix tired and sleepy.  She went to her tree then in to her doll house.  Then she had some dreams.

She had many many dreams.  Why so many dreams.  Well because the stars were now out.  That is why we dream because the stars come out.  There were so many that in the night there would be dreams aplenty.  But in the day there is just one there is just the sun.  What a lovely dream it has us dream together.

In the morning Beatrix found the strangest thing.  Her paper bag was full of flowers.  She curled inside and made the paper bag a bed.  A flower bed.

And so this is how is went this how they lived Beatrice and Beatrix this is how they loved and lived.  Every night the stars came out over the tree and set them dreaming.  Beatrix all curled into a ring inside her little paper bag life was so good and sweet.

This was how it was this was how it was.  In the daytime she little Beatrix Bea came to visit the bed of Beatrice Bea and together they would cuddle cuddle cuddle cuddle.  Then once again it would be time for dreaming.

And yet again once again the stars would arise and Beatrix would return again to her little doll house.  And once more before bedtime she would eat some sorbet.  Before bedtime she would bathe she would cuddle up with everything.

So it was so it was.  This is how it was.  Then one night sweet Beatrice Bea was of course in bed because she never left.  That night she looked at her ring at her grandmother’s ring and she remembered the mystery and what did it mean.

She thought of what could it mean that the flowers had brought her grandmother’s ring.  What did flowers mean.  Now we have heard where flowers are from and how they grew and got their petals and started to show off scents so sweet.

But what to do flowers mean.  Flowers mean to remind us.  Remind us remind us a sweet scent is a memory.  A memory is to keep.  Sweet scent sparkle and blink and shimmer and shine.  Beatrice Bea began to think of what it could mean.  All of life is made of little diamond things.

Beatrice Beatrix Beatrice Bea there is loveliness in all that you see.  The paper bag loves the tree the sorbet loves the bath the bath loves the ring that reminds it of its water rippling.  The tree you see is a great flower that loves the little ones all about you lily and lavender.  The ring loves the tree because the tree hides inside a new ring for each and every birthday.  Cuddles show love for the bath when you bathe your love in them.  Flowers and stars are of course madly in love.  And the stars love sorbet since it is soft like petals just like its love.  Your little doll house loves your cuddles.  The little paper bag loves being just what it is.  Sorbet loves the bed when you eat it there and your bed loves the doll house all full of furniture to be arranged.  And stars love to cuddle of course they do.  And the doll house loves the ring the ring loves the bed the bag loves the flowers that fill it all up.  The flowers love sorbet they think they are related.  And the sorbet loves the tree it is a sorbet tree that is what it believes.  A bed loves a bath and the bath loves the stars a sea of stars.  Little paper bag loves sorbet it says, “My love my love I will carry you away.”  And flowers love to cuddle isn’t that obvious.  The stars love the ring they are practically the same.  The tree loves its sisters and brothers and fathers and mothers all trees trees everywhere you see they say, “Climb me climb me.”  Cuddle the stars for they love to be.  Your beautiful bed is abound with love.  The bath loves the doll house the doll house loves the flowers every single one it also also also loves the bed.  The paper bag loves the stars its beautiful desire.  Sorbet loves the flowers soft and snuggly.  The bed loves the bag the bath loves the tree the sorbet loves to cuddle could it cuddle the ring the rings of the tree.  Flowers and bath little bag and doll house.  A bed full of flowers a bath and a bag a bath in a bag a little kitty witty bathing inside of a bag.  The doll house loves the tree.  Your grandmother’s ring radiates and sings.  Cuddle cuddle cuddle all the cuddles are loves.  Sorbet loves the doll house the bed loves the stars.  A bath loves the flowers its waters are all scented with lavender.  The stars all love the tree.  The flowers love the tree loves your cuddles and hugs cuddle its rings when you wear your grandmother’s ring your grandmother Beatrice Beatrice Bea.  Beatrix loves Beatrice and Beatrice loves Beatrix and Beatrice loves Beatrice and we all love we all love we all love we all love Bea so well.

Pastoral #3.14

The birds are a clear sock of witnesses who also die.  Along with the dry morsels of shortbread, the year neatly finishes a rudimentary ricochet of the book.  Fluttering my vision to beat out a tongue of suicided cheese I can, vomiting diets, no longer endure.  I offer a raped field clapping condolences to several male witnesses suffering from various species of children's-verse-weight-loss.

My head differs.  Even underwater parts of my head feel dry, as if purporting to summarize air, I had suffered bravery in an apology-center from a comprehension test.

The children are buried alive under a brutally tubed soil of "not-being-touched."  Fall is here, even tho my armpits sweat & hobos with mozzarella in their beards are crossing their legs in a wedge of sun.  A face that wasn't in it suddenly seemed real, like lipcreases sliding down the small of kneaded weather into a slow, steady plain to hiss like the pillow of a father's body.

The sound of a faucet following swollen commands puts a finger to the seat of my lips wished deep inside everyone.  In moments of durable war-like intimacy, the head itches like a straitjacket, allowing the equipment of a bedroom to be impotently cultivated like a riding bit of deep-tickles archived for the purposes of later listening to life catching on.

2 short poems about Herman Cain

1.

It doesn't get much more stupid than that.
& then it does.

2.

Herman Cain fucked a hot pizza on a train
& ended up with a burned dick that was also sprained.
O poor Herman Cain
How long will you entertain?

I Wish This Was the Stupidest Poem Ever Written

Of course, you'll forever remain a hyena.
Ppl will be surprised you're actually listening.
It's so uncharacteristic.
I think I'm gonna stop talking now.
Clean & wear yr plate like a No-TV-2nite-necktie.

We're in the Age of Bad Ideas

I hate ya'll.  Follow me.  I got a bad feeling I'm coming.
I just can't find an email I'm comfortable with.
If I was forced 2 drink Arbor Mist I'd be harder pissed.
Man, I don't even know what I want.
Michael Jackson.  Fish soup. A million dollars.
You're famous.
I like the cut of yr jib.
A jib can be all kindsa things.

Rules of/4 Art


 Hot Tub Time Machine is better than 99/100 poems
Of that 1%, Hot Tub Time Machine remains more enjoyable than 99%
This remainder, however, the Other .0001 floors us while
Hot Tub Time Machine only splits our sides—and heads

Because of this, all art must aspire to Hot Tub Time Machine
at first

Without prior achievement of Hot Tub Time Machine, poems, paintings and pictures
About our dads, dogs and philosophy are just that
boring, private tributes to a public object that should remain so

This is what makes Whitman's Drum Taps and Carson's Nox
more than just poems "about things"
W's desire for ripening in the southern sun is a nostalgic redoing one can get behind while
C's accordian structure is five gallons of cgi'd projectile vomit

This is why the best artists in both their early, nascent, budding periods
as well as older, post-developed states entertain playful streaks

Without his golden ear, Eliot wouldn't be Eliot
Prufrock would be Parson; still
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats remains his fluorescent achievement

Ulysses doesn't reach Hot Tub Time Machine until "Wandering Rocks"
doesn't surpass it until Steven breaks the chandelier
but boy, that's why we swoon when Bloom makes cocoa

Spicer's radio is a Hot Tub Time Machine, but if there's one
in Duncan's—as in Olson's—field, I sure as fuck can't find it

Spenser and Chaucer, though, surpass a Hot Tub Time Machine with line one
Thats why they last
Shakespeare, here, is notoriously absent because he is a Hot Tub Time Machine