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THREE LONGPOEMS

BY

VERNON FRAZER

chalk editions 2011



Copyright © 1999, 2011 Vernon Frazer

Free Fall was originally publishedas a chapbook by Potes & Poets Press

text (c) 2011 vernon frazerdesign (c) 2011 vernon frazer

cover (c) 2011 jukka-pekka kervinen

http://chalkeditions.blogspot.com



THREE LONGPOEMS



CONTENTS

FREE FALL 7

FREE FLIGHT 31

GROUND ZERO 69





FREE FALL





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FREE FALL

Flagstaff Massacre redundantinvented history makes it scrawlacross pride’s wounded Rushmoreknee. Sweeping the locust streams

face roars to the subtle(s)ty.

NO MORE, NO MORE

the skies amassvirtue sweeping its totality

a broom of essenceopenly seeking surrepitition

& wearing sneakers

To the shade we must bringour stencils, cross the eyes & dot the teaseof her comely dulcet. To sense

the moribund at full strength,the tide must be lowered throughhoops of crane & nets of cattleheard lowing

in the Western wind



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Where genre succeeds, all else fails.

Cast the hope of spellsawaiting speckled terriersherpetological slithers whip the frailfangs tight against the urban sky

while only the tacit fail

OF COURSE, OF COURSE!

the factitiously obviousfacetiously oblivious

to the seed of its fawning maker

Who else could swallow such a naked bid,trumping castor oil for hidden triumphs in the sweet

sidelines of life, revealed in all its streetly rigor,a pollen of forgotten dew?

NOT TRUE, NOT YOU

(or could it be,whenever?

The saintly portal of influxvipers its evaporationson conjugal stilts, the hardship varies

Butwhat is, is what is

not



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whether it can be sois the matter

of its energy

more disgruntled neighbors

raging yellow Custer

his fury of blue croquet

theoretical impurities of the saneloquacious denial of fabric softenersharden the molt against its sinew:

where else can the smell imagine?

Nor walls of choice, voicing their discontentits lineage a language, music musing benton amusing itself with self-abuse

of strictures imminent.

___________________________

Moribund redundancy aims & fireslabor forces, their broken unions rankfiled with fish & slumberin the kitsch of uproarious nights

or, why bother?



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If not for the tights of her moralsstrictures would asphyxiate

on auto insurance claims,

their dreary sameness.

REMOTE

is the occlusion of facethe artery must go to the vestibulea student of the undoored locks

there lies the flow of rigor mortis in all its leisuresuit, a pleasure of measured antiquities foregonein pursuit of empty treasure chests & pirated seas

How else to look for the mirrored otherin the same’s reflective face?

OR ELSE, ALL ILLUSION

must pass must failits gradient ingratitudesmuster or, musttend our tender

culture occult

a centered result

M U S T

prevail



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revile

reveal

reveille

( or not

indefinite dependencieswhereas startling strictures ringstalling the pulse of ventriclesclamoring against the crustacean shell, swelling

full against the Camelotof ingrown hairs bornenightly by the strumpetsof Dudley

no matter the pain of discordanttrumpets’ double-see against theI’s of the nearly blind

recordant in the respiteof Arthurian trays, alldefraying the deadly



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QUICKENING

of all delay,its decaying essenceturgid to the touchinasmuch as its varied outcome,such as:

lineal fundaments non-sequentialin nature of consequence denied, yetessential to all others

at pace.

The foregone sweep of occlusionremains

.

Extinct through it may be,the birth of seclusion raises issuesnotwithstanding.

(Omigod!

not

with

standing!)



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If so, then the perennials must wanderthe archetype desert, a locust Sahara tour

remote by the desert sea, certainly a bargain

for the cost buds.

Nourishing flourishingrosebuds snow podsgrowing blowingwinds sand

of time change

R E S C I N D S

the very fact

of

T R I N E S H A M E

OR ELSE, WHY BOTHER?

If efficiency compels If deficiency dispelsall rumors of doubt all ill humor aboutwithout a simple flare we’re out a purple stairinto the night under the sight



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WE MIGHT AS WELL

for what else is, there?

Or, wherever

the sweet cake of silicon

unfolds

its pyramid ruin, the last gasp of concrete breathbefore the death of abstraction, its manifold attractioninfuriating the gentry vicariously through their sentry gates

to the millennium.

FOR APOCALYPSE IS ALWAYS WITH USWITH US APOCALYPSE IS FOR ALWAYSFOR ALWAYS WITH APOCALYPSE IS USIS FOR APOCALYPSE WITH US ALWAYS

I N, C O M P L E TE / IN PROCESS

Indefinite as certitude may sometimes seam

it carries with it its own vaults. Beyond measurewe apply the mystical quadrants of its own,drawing pleasure from intervallic leaps of net receiptsgross when taken for granted. Amid their sacred claimto vision all else must properly be



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BLINDED BY SIGHT BLINDED BY SIGHT BLINDED BY SIGHT BLINDED BY SIGHT

or can he merely apply the secretunburned by paper stains, the unclaimed varnish

of youth? Of course, Truth hides where quickening resides,its temper a tamboura of causal overflow

or the talk of the tankalying in wait for

inversions of reversionsshorter than linenlonger than single

respectively, or not. Its pungency breeds on over wrought-iron display offending neighbors. The front lawns complain,

and who could blame them?

Vainglorious perusal of ancient truths

shall have their say, patiently, as with respect for theirwhere all else shall fail, who else shall?

Amid threats of impropriety the morally weedy growgardens, seedy with transit transfers or complementary ticks.Notwithstanding the circumstances of their standing,the lie down the path of navigator error breedsterror into the hearts of Jacks.

Kings, Queens or Aces erase

all memory of conclusions forgone,sowing discord’s accordance

with inapplicable rules.





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scrawl across pride’s wounded Rushmore knee. Sweeping the locust

the factitiously obvious facetiously oblivious

to the seed of its fawning maker

sing a million old saws just because

ballads are renovated under the priestly sun?

For / everthe chill moves against will’s resistance,

never insistent onthe direction of bikinis in autumn.

Their counterparts among the laces breedconsent among wounds more abundant

than necessity when sent express

for the overnight purpose

of leeing there.

Wherever the line goes, its tracescrawl their solicitation, unambiguousto the threat of massacre. Heunderstood the chisel of history,its face the field invaded,the swarming of existence

in ways demanding filagree of the son,cussed offspring of more abundance than,moreover speaking in ways

mystery overtook. If you look at the incipientdeselecting, erecting its eminent countenanceimposes another artifact

whose irrepressible indeterminacycannot be outdone in matters of circumspect

locution

especially when features cannot condonethe dawning of the new brood, so daring

in its sculpted stance, its bearing so



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their broken unions rank filed with fish & slumber in the kitsch of uproarious nights

the perennials must wander the archetype

desert, a locust Sahara tour remote by the

as all things would be so if they wereso solicitous or not. The misbegotten

parable breeds arable secrets, finding

themselves secret narratives in the ad hoc traditioninadmissible to the present tense in so many

essential dissonances.

Where laundry may keep, the linen baskets in the sun.

The foregone far gone, the moments sense on-word, a digital influx of silence essence its sense seeksthe clean squeak of sound seen in ultimate penumbra.

And yet,

the center holdscentrifugally, if nothingelse. Enter the gyre,

widening schismsstitching bait to switchin the guides of sand

or whereverbeauty pays homage to the

necklaces of camel-necked barracudas.Recrudescent oil barreled over upon hearing

how the journey overtook them, invaded their stasis,swept the rug under them, in place of analogue, the myth of

ancient hypotheses scrawled on walls of alabaster pyramids seekingthe seventh eye. Its paragons pentangled the heavens, an angular sweep

not to be outdone by the terminal sleep of the awakened, their wide eyes gunningagainst hope, running the rope of despair to its ultimate tether, whether or not intense

derailment shall support their days.

Beyond ways of tracking didactic ambience

in days of practical ambivalence



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more came from the mountains of epiclattice, a long climb for forks uncertain of the tineat its

P R O N G !

the stab back, its retort

acknowledged its dis-contiguity, the text of thereport a porpoise leap

beyond the scope & purposeof hearing.

Silenceprotested the roots of its originsin discontiguity,

rendering space/time relativityabsent

______________________________

if continuity persists in its present sense the tense will demand separation a room of itsown for storing faces of dead presidents unimpeachable security essence preserved glasscases on display daily demanding sequence or ample sampling of the illusion thereto

whereby the powers that define reality shall empower their subjectivity through swimminglessons in the void

______________________________



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or declare its presence

through assertions

of sense

______________________________

beyond the apprehension of thongs and tines forking legs and spines through hermeticdisplays of gourmet appetite concealed in kitchens of the mind raining supreme over picnicbenches of the unforgotten dismembered in essence of string elastic plastic its monasticpast the forerunner of the unacknowledged gift bestowed upon the age of season withheldfor reasons obscure as the secret texts of recipes astrological forecasts repasts washingmemory clean of all effulgence its dimming glow the present below which all sunder must

rent a partitioning to petition the sundry whose efforts delay the

______________________________

definite particleits substantial abusereduced to chemical independence,

a future aspiring toward itselfwithout regard for the carboxyls in the group

the medea’s lead insurrectionthe insensate resurrection of radio

sacrificed to TV evangelists

in the stadium bursting forgotten mindcome alive with snakes of naked feeling

______________________________

scoop the petition comping feet clomping behind ahead alongside competition erasingmemory trace by trace copying its original the shell left in place deriding flowers and thymeits carnival fragrance rooted in coronal occlusion behind which the shadow passes intocatheters of the mind misbegotten liquids overflowing impassioned signatures whereverthe meet rinds its way home the hearth Janus flames both ways blaming ambiguity for its



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the wherever sweet cake of silicon unfolds

its pyramid ruin,the last gasp of concrete

the chill moves against

resistance,never

insistent on the

direction of

bikinis in

autumn

failure to provide appropriate direction to the insurrection of its campfire thongs ofprotests thongs of meat thongs of girls that greet naked thought projection with chasteredirection of primal urges horticulturally unseen with yet another

______________________________

redirection of the part most private revealedin pubic. Its nobility challenged only by its mobility,

we see its naked thrust shiver in the winter windtrees barren of ovaries and insistence,

resistance the fact of nature persistentlypreserving its own for its own cast-off thousands,the reality of artifice thronging spectacles ancient

to modern, longing for the primal unity of the dyinginanimate. Sensate, intense the rune sighs its secretsdimensions pretensions dissensions and distentions(abstentions not included in this participatory phrase)

unfazed by the gaze of future ruins, odes to odorsdiminished over time and garlic, gingerly proposing

thingalongs to lend the continuity its need.

So, the breedremembers itsdismemberment

yields its part to his/her/storyconcupiscent glories unfolding

its collective size

wields itsupstart part

moribund



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antly. And to leaveits etchings trace

on the race’s rotted cliches

stays alooffrom the stanceof impossible distance

prays abundance will chartrenewed galaxies across the paying stars

grown old beyond Jupiter, cold beyond Saturn

Plutonian

in its methanemalfeasance.

By the wringing nose of Saturnalia,a cusp shall lead them, true, beyond the fieldsof will’s verdant nomenclature, green framing

the regalia of the lost penultimate,

a history past the self-proclaimed linearity of logic’s measurecolors the continuum’s wheel, unyieldingto the red of feet.

Trampling the last horizon’s narrowing rug, the frolictugs the many from the few, renewing the wield under

the field’s review, taking pictures of Easter and itsrespective I-lands, clinching resurrection with Ice Ages.

______________________________

If you can’t take the cold, get out of the zero. ______________________________



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sd the temptress,seamstress of Time & allits dropped stitchesstaring into the Fall

of Math Anxiety.

Arable, yes,bearable, no

m a t t e r / n o , m a t e r

worth sleeping under the Oedipal rug

jo, castor, poleaxthe whole sweepingentity

proclaiming flight reservationshistory’s Senior Citizen discounttours the acropolis

insensitive toreclusive dissidentsat half-mast

their terrormasked

in half-stitches

laughterapocalyptic

after lunch



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the shell left in place

deriding flowers and thyme its carnival fragrance rooted in coronal occlusion behind which the

shadow passes into catheters of the mind misbegotten liquids overflowing impassioned signatures wherever the meet

rinds its way home the hearth Janus flames both ways blaming ambiguity for its failure to provide

appropriate direction to the insurrection of its campfire thongs

continuity persists in its

present sense the tense will demand separation a room of its own for storing faces of dead

presidents unimpeachable security essence preserved glass cases on display daily demanding sequence

or ample sampling of the illusion thereto whereby the powers that define reality shall empower

their subjectivity through swimming lessons in the void

and other naked affairsthat resist fenestral tampering of clowns

the barker’s green pitch in the hayforensic evidence of amperage

under attack. Where shall all the backers go when thefront is a circus kewpie dolls in thongs

looking beyond the Renaissance edge, its pulverthe tone of apocalypsed nuance, a subtle treasure

the hayrides measure in stilts, the cattle in feet. Theinches grow indignant at the viper’s edge. But falling is

not an occlusion so much a stricter interpretationof capillary madness carried to a feverish degree,

heartless to the shadows minding its gravedemeanor, demented like ripening fruit on vines

of the unclustered, and who shall give them light?

The photosynthesis of neon stranglers? The tempestsof centrifugal fugued force? Of course knot.

Can’t tie me down to the bladder chord harmony withfecal wishes & stethoscopes. Nope. Not atall.

They got me coming, they got me goingboth ways to Sunday Monday Tuesday and back

in the mirror again to see their reflective forcethe self sees the other self in itself outside itselfa hallucination off to one side beside oneself

for how else to know all that can be meaningless illusionin the snake pit of Latin where scholars kiss asps

for ten yore saxophones of ancient muzakwinding from the west at can force cloaking we-all isms

in raincoats of gold braided antiquity.The cold rages in quickly against the dense ragesof overturned shrapnel. The perfect sense of beingsomewhere else for something other than the mirror

looking out for itself with brazen point toits bronze-veiled stare wherever its sees them coming,

whichever direction the power runs a cableelectronic currency the sine qua qua qua of Godot’s

freon anticipation molecules. Where fools await

the fire the water sings citrus ballads for the quickeningcensures of the century’s last centurion crawl. All shall

mark this empty moment of renewal with dreador peanut butter. Better fed than said, especially in

social situations of empty rumors, founded in situ withflagrante delicto serving as your ghost



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the saintly reprimands continue seizures to gall.

Wherewithal seeks its own level.

The wizened prophet marginshrieks

TABLOID REVENGETABLOID REVENGETABLOID REVENGETABLOID REVENGE

in moments of secret

constriction.

RAPID TUCKAHOE ATTACK RABID STENCIL PADS

SCARLET REP’D STARLET SEEKS MILLIONSIN ABANDONED COLONIAL SETTLEMENT

the Lost & Found

of recent concupiscence

demands secret measure

downtrodden, weary,the night’s pleasure past, he singssong of pecuniary rancor,

thrift shops giventhe short hop river molecule

as never before.And never again



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shall finitude seep

its creeping oil basin

into the skin of reptilian

porcelain, lest the goddess

of purple terror

shall treasure

its creeping fen.

Nor calling for the wherewithal’s whereverin cries of dread certainty, the amplitudeengorging sweet cake resounds with of silicon

the valley unfolds its muster, cries desperate lassitudeto the mores of cortisone, injected by the turn of pyramid eventswhich ruin brass wrist clasps singing ballast of breath,

the last gasp brings the class to a tension of concrete.In the absence of oil vellum, the creases move slowlyto the point of release. Still, the chill teases the game

moves to another venal. Stitches cross the way

with laughter, a manictrenchant with a penchant

foreclosing against resistance,

whose force

regales the wind

never so insistent as

the makers of voltage red oncentral residence filters



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bestowing the directionthe past shall take through the futureof now, of bikinis atolls

nipping buds in terror of dental work,

underground tunnels abounding in autumn,the subterraneans reviling their broken unions

in their native waters turning ecruafter blue rash sweetens the podrank with conceptual growth

& deciduous anima

the

furyof its season

leeringoutside eager studio doors

misrepresenting the whales

of destinytheir lineage on file and filled

the invading armiesthe lampless prisons of eels,with fish & slumber

the life-breath promise madein the kitsch of uproarious nights.

Sampling the text of self-conscious sea mammals

reverting to inner language secret thoughts

the mindless absorb the factitiously bereft,soak the raft in tales of laughter daftly told

obvious



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in, of course, the most subtle dissonance.

Meanwhile,

the facetiously obliviousstamp rapaciously towardprivatization of destiny

all thought incurred by the wooden mirror of haste,no deliberate future untermed.

Liberation of the vestibule, however,means the sacrifice cheese & other binding arbitration

to the seed of its last measure

face tainted by the fawning maker’s slow pacethrough the desert of sullen delight, where gila monstersscrawl the pulpit’s mane across pride’s wounded Rushmore,while the knee sweeping the locust history invented

prevented

the redundant

to massacre Flagstaff



FREE FLIGHT





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FREE FLIGHT

SESIR

THE PHOENIX

se

hs

a

eh

t

mo

r

f

pU



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into life

into flight

into

haberdashery stores of furtive dimensions inchoatethe lost atonement cylindrically cindered, at last at onewith

tertiary inclusions of theoretical matter

incendiary illusions of geometrical dataancillary intrusions of metaphysical ladders

gn

d ie ds nc ee cn s

d ain

g into the great

(where the unknown quantifies leaps

prolonged through leopard spots pronged againstthe electroshock of contumely’s forbidden hiss

ZAP!

no stocking matters contingenton flying reindeer odes or outlying modalities



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in search of

season at the water’s edgeevaporation of summer aviariesstationery in their cyclic outputthe hair of growing renown

or

predatory butterliesin Leap Years costumingfrom unsightly transformations

discoloration a given among the

drop dp ri on p dg p r

s i on p dg p rs i o

n p dg p rs i o

n pg ps i

n

gs

brought to you by the green flamingos of Key Lime Piebrought to you by the green flamingos of Key Lime Piebrought to you by the green flamingos of Key Lime Piebrought to you by the green flamingos of Key Lime Pie



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swathy in their summer plumagelow overhead free dressing on the sidedribbling perfume stolen from the olfactory

presence of nearness to pursue essenceatingle with sound’s delight

the Birds who sing in syncopationwho never think the words are so much below

the blue notes they leave behindthat goes to show you just how much they know

even with the help of ornithologiststhe moon rises

high as

FLIGHT!

AZURE CROSSINGS

that defy gravity

of languageof thoughtof surface

imperativessought with the vigor

of archaeological wisdom

the cabal of Summer Dread enunciatescar flutes in digital amber strains purpling the diodeof directional matrix, color stains so integral to the processitself disregarding dolorous remains of ambiguityin the night. Where others fidget with the headslying in state among the bastions of the privilegeddrying hair with tonsillectomies



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of uncertainty there can be no doubt.Without such imperatives the candle cannot glistennor the trenchcoat listen from its somber shadow

to the chattering above clattering to deride his silence& its physics cannot deny the aerial dementedscattering to seek protection from the trajectories of

drop dp ri on p dg p rs i o

n p dg p rs i o

n p dg p rs i o

n pg ps i

ngs

so integral to

FLIGHT!

and all the integersinherent in the lapidary oscillationof isometric factoriesa refractory presence fraughtwith penalties of individuation



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& casualties redundant

as it

sd

d ne es cc se ands

into the great

transmittal of beigewhere cattle graze productsof indeterminate obstinacyabstinence its only known cure

the known quantifies its

ignorance smug as a bug in awindshield. Wherever the bovine

gaze, flight takes a new dimension,sight, splays it flattened, displaysthe arrogance of days gone bylike old water wheels heeling the toeof the Captain of Industry

healing the millworkers’ hemorrhoidsin ancient ways now rescinded under

evidentiary protocols

fists fur flying air pocketslined with bribes

cloud formations migratory tribes



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lambent on history’s clatter

the ordeal pursues its idealresolution, springs coiledin self-referentialitydeferential to

the nightly agonistesdepicting the rainwashed sullen under vipersnesting their hooded broodscoiled to strike

THE SKY

in falling gains new respectas do the defeated always in their incremental ways

THE SKY

is failing its disreputable ways

alleviating the feathers of the unknown

THE SKY

is palling the day’s abrogationof meteorological austerity, harsh in its depiction

of roosts coming home to chicken.In such an atmosphere quickening isunavoidable, as is thickening its onslaught.

One ought to knowby now the literal slows



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the figurative’s flywith sly rotations

of denials their insistence fled.Their unknown demands fly

into the great

egomaniacal carnage ofuncloseted thespians pursuingnew

heights

up ladders of chronologydown freight elevators of ontologyto

where phylogeny keeps its low,breeding to beget wings of thought

flapping across the arid desert of the Great Sahara

irrespective of propellersin their midst. And so the agendaremains hidden, its followers bidlosses accosting jets of water

gi i

a ap p

dis s

l ry y

n ng



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nonchalant streams of palavercalibrating nuptial endeavorwith an incumbent riding his

cadaver into the great victory

celebration

unknown

To those who carewhere the green flamingoes’Key Lime

fa fl a fl l a fs l l a

s l ls l

s

let it be said

THE DUCK DROPS HERE!

Wherewithal the soaring cost of mounting featherslost in the adjunct velocity tremors the influxutilization’s precocity weathers accounting

in peacock’s haze, let the bettorsassume their risk

ashes to crashesdust to bust,



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even flight

d

i

p

s

a tip of the wingsto those who

RISE LIKE THE PHOENIX

an incendiary tract

ensues

ASHES TO ASSES!DUST TO DUSK!

BENIGHT THE PHYSICAL!THE TREATISE HAILS ITS DROPPINGS!

THE TREATISE TRAILS ITS DROPPINGS!AND MENTORS YEARN FOR LAVENDER APOSTASYGLEANING WISDOM FROM THE THREE-FOLD PATH

REPLETE WITH THE WISDOM OF THE TABLESTABULATED WITH RASA AS ITS NEBULOUS GUIDE.THE COLUMNAR DISTORTIONS PROPORTIONATE

THE WISDOM DISCOURSES WITHIN

THE TRIPLISTIC MODALITY OF WHICH ONEOF / OR ALL THREE OF ITS COMPONENTSMAY ISSUE ADVICE WISDOM KNOWLEDGE

PASSION COMPASSION DISPASSIONACCORDING TO THE DICTATES

AND MANDATES OF



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wherever whenever whatever

flight stringent abundant

modalities intrinsic antagonistic

perpetuate merit factors

denial welcomes preside

radiate transplant negate

all some all

factors rudimentary primal

take ambiguities scrutiny

steps with empowering

to certainty its

wherever whenever whatever

you may deem appropriate to expropriate universal particulars from unsavory situations inwhich earth pulls atmospheric compounds into the carbonic womb entombs the airy lightin grappling compounds whirling flesh ensues eschewing nutrients ground down by

old dentures flossed & polished & indentured to the corporeal relics unencumbered by

FLIGHT

as only those gaseous compounds would know stealing verbatims from Dutch Uncles tooverthrow nationalist regimes in utero dealing plumbing fixtures to misguided missalsresplendent with blasphemous protrusions scantily elegant & tired in the vestibules ofknotted fates rambunctious hawsers & unkempt hemp discarding the finitudes of hangingbosses tossing dice in aquariums where the masses transform prefixed phoenix parts from

ASHES TO ASSES&

DUST TO DUCKS



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notwithstanding quackery in its highest forms the norm for metempsychotics committed tobodies for indeterminate periods subject to intervallic assessments harmonicreconstructions carpetbagging the Southern tiers weeping hysterectomies of hooded

leaders burning crossly on lawns of soil enriched with gingivitis grinning gums drop as theyspeak the Tempe rate zone posted its Tuscon movements to retirement villages in which

the ashes

rise

from the dust

of the

PHOENIX

scatter bird seed everywhere

scatter into the great books

of Western Civilizationreplete with cowboy boots

spurring the womb of the sleepless

in Seattle wheedling the Space Needleinto gracious acts of boorism

stirring the uninitiated into gratuitous factsof dubious authority. Notwithstanding its perilous influxdiameter must remain concealed from dripping iron cylinders

befuddled in acrid rain of personal exploration& threatened derivatives,

even Birds



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wrapping up their confirmationsso that you can let one go

hear the rhythmhum the musicstrum the drum stickwho could bask in everything or.

Wings protrude thickflying Bird trickcount the bridge tickwith a track click

you want asheshave some ashesyou want fat duckstwo could ask to turn into for

get me notin summer’s boldnessthe proclivities derange

the senseless in search of themselvesthrough dotted-note documentationssyncopation enriched with soy meal

arrangebreath’s humming coldnessyour derivatives will change

ashen textures incarnate transmigrate dustfrom room a gesture of trust mis-shaken

irradiates decibels with tremors deep in the soulof the inner ear.



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Hear the bones crackleto dust. Here the bones crackleto dust. In weeping silence

verisimilitude rears its noisy feathersgleefully treads through threads of soundnonexistent but for its forceful rhetoric

announcements pronounced through mystical modalitiesassured entry through ticket doors undeclared to the off-limited mandibular associates demurring to cocoons

protesting larval stages of igneous rockas insectuous in its poker-faced bid, arresting

the id as fatuous in its Leap Year molt decrying

the wingsthat brought mehear

them rustling through their transformation

so that flight can make them grow

soundas a seasonalappendage

upending the unendingsprings that coil stingswhen sprung the strings

attack the earth-bound

missiles rising silos crisesabound the anointed



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wherever birds shall

fly.

The ground shifts

riffs

repeat the threat of syncopationcalling for reiterationdon’t you know your bettorsplace odds below

the hatch deck misappropriatedsecret longings / the strong shallforbid serial fecundity & aggressionin sequential processions as matters

of straw. Their bosses holdthese troops self-evidenced

& their reek shall inherent with mirth

repeat they need reiteration

calling for odd syncopationthough they owe their debtorsspace to go

smoke their fire in legendary snorkels feverish with apocrypha stroke desire with accidentalforklifts integral to the rising process as determined in accordance with presumptuousmetabolic sources glandular in their mist not a single secretion between them but for theshared metaphysics of laundromats complacent in their spandexed latitudes exquisite withstretch formations chasing the limits of hair curlers and snapping gum clicking the track forhooded sound engineers procuring forbidden smoke their fire a polysonic flurry of process

ensuring marginal platitudes proscribing enunciation of denunciation with syncopated furyno limits to their bold transgression in the gravel pits of recreational pursuit duringevolution’s blast days everyone sipping cappuccino praising their arcane tidbits ofregression all points aggressive in a suit of cashmere the tip of the gray Stetson fedora



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RISING RISING RISING RISINGfrom sundry sourceslipping apocalypse in smoke-filled tombs stating

ether/orein exclusive terms redacting

as superfluous the inclusive option

both/amin cold pursuit of the redemptive quest

incestuously transcribed in the hidden tabletsadvertised on latenight cabal TV

where the Ginsu knife to the Spiritsretreads its sacred flesh undergoingtransformations from energy to no matterconsequential as only differentials need apply

nor the isolation of physics intrusiveunderscoring the plaintive’s right to wail

tenor on the impeachment stand of oral testimonypreaching to the inverted of his word dactylic if its idling meter

the stroke must meet the eye in flightor there gassed the lavender renunciationsshall cry their muted breath, declining



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the rightful spread of all wings across delusionary tablesenabling fables of the spurious to apply anecdotal credentialsto reverential supplicants endeavoring the weave of matter

to wind rings of kindness around ordinary ampules

meanwhile the precarious preserve all assurancein kits & nodules. Granular effervescence prevails.Lids raise the swollen eyes of garbage cans. Praiseall who hale the stench

wafting its rocklike pontiffwith ordinal veracity incapacitatedtruisms abound. Leaping displaysof olfactory power

manufacture spare arts, the differentialthe price of omission, the referential aconfidential confessional filled with

either gastric fluidity of a seasonal natureits stature forbidding all future displaysof fortitude

/penitent in its brevity

conciliatory in its threateninggrow against all who would



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or deflect the sense from its tangent,whichever contact may greet its best.For the rest nothing is austere but theperil of sequenced events trenched

amid the casings floating timidly over the verdant fieldas flight leaves its wake for the forward to advance. Never casting perilthe Purple Error strikes.

RISING RISING RISING RISINGevidence unfolds, mounts a steed

for hire. Lugubrious arsenals buckshot the sky where

FLIGHT

attacks the earthbound sirens. Whistlethe haze full-toned its blush. the thrush awaits with open

fangs. The trench wages victims of the flesh

over Spartacus themes.

get me notin summer’s boldness

the proclivities derange

syncopations the senseless searchof themselves for thorough dotted-notedocumentations enriched with soy meal



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arrangebreath’s humming coldness

your derivatives will change

or the imperatives will burn reluctant cindertinder to the barer of the pair, all eloquence notwithstanding.Nor the risen to undertake preliminary strategic

planning with deadpan exuberance

on behalf of the cold miners panning foalsin them thar hills.

Origins bequest derivatives,

stationary ambiguities subject to changewith weather’s every blast, the cast of steamcased after breath,

lurching in search of

RISING RISING RISING RISING

THE PHOENIX

pu

from the ashes



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takes

STOCK FROM HIS HOPED-FOR

FLIGHT

The searchfor survival though revivalquests enough

actions that defy gravity& logic

transmuted through stunning articulationsof retrospective dependency

the flame takes itsmeasure, its

wing of stationary frenzystenciled proactive against the sky

its retroactive preliminary disingenuousa sty its ointment. As a fly peels off a windshield

to the surprise of life, its surfeitrings its surplus of

survival. Throughrevival enough queststhe search for

WINGSof dodecaphonic ascent

capillaries fervent



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with enamelthe postulates await

their theorem.

A geometry of innocence ensues,line by line ensnaring the few who dowith the fatal repose of those who do not

fly the wages of Mexico.

On their transcontinental way back, the delta crosses Icelandicwithout jets to bet on the horse race of the

endangered purple mollycoddle

& her licentious brood.

No further tangents await.

Straight ahead! Straight ahead!Containment makes its takeoff,

burning red carpets over concretetracing dead combatants replete with dread metaphors

hurtling through inner space& slamming face-first against the seat in front of

them. And all the others like them denythe perpetuity that tries their dissimilarity though

obfuscation in no uncertain terms.

Straight ahead the flight, straight ahead!

Ride the horizontal attitude of those parallel in bedthirty thousand feet below. Cruise

the even keel across sky page or screen, visible as musicto the hearing-impaired. Instead, dare

to stare the blue in the face till they drop from observationin the air traffic controller’s situation



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who but a union could grieve?

Take wing! Take wing!Sing as bolded lettering

the cloudless music of the light,its brilliance resilient as withered sparrows yonder

wander like pilots wobblyfrom the wreckage below. The reckoning beckons. Heed

its beacon call. For all you knowit’s a wrong number riding a declaimer’s digit, voice strong

in millennial protest against the earth-

bound to settle out of court a nolo contendere

in kangaroo court with Austaliopithecansboycotting the atmospheric

condemnation of fugitives in flight, the furtive, the frightened,cringing with delight & moss.

Gossamer realities abound for those unbound to fealtyrealty or other profound distractions

the loss tosses like a winglettering the late lavender skykinetic with the scope of dawn

taken as a line,the shoe fits.

Buffet it. Make it shine

like an eagle, shine like an eagle

shine like an eagle



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against personal reflections in the eyeof a hurricane, deflect tense defectors

their due respect. If they correcteach morally correct antipode, an ode

takes wing takes wing

ajazzof language,a jazz of language,a jazz of language,a jazz of language,ear of eyeear of eyeear of eyeear of eye,

the left swings to a bird on the wing, singing, the right rings to a coal trane howling

steam in the night prophetic, each of them a king of the kindred ear where sensebecomes sound becomes sight becomes seer seeing seen on a scene beyondthe scene of the noir ly-abled frequenting the historic district of the post-Pollock line

in conceptual motifs black as Henry’s first Ford & the next green millionvipers added to the mix muggling mystic brew smuggling the struggle nimby home

of harmonic substitutes & allegedly disrespective modalities allied against the salliesof the muted in spirit the dumb of foot, acute or chronic, hear it brush the ear

or shriek the canvas word the page a process in transition never to be changedrearranged deranged estranged alienated ill-fated destitute brute taking the name

of the label in vain the style as content the substance as form the epochal sable leapingonto the back of a frightened mink on a guestbed dementedly vapid tracks

the hunted with a cane while water witches cook brews beneath the surfaceof their welcoming barks. Ascension was always the intention, even whereklactoveedsedsteen was available by prescription only giant steps were made

in the procurement process through the efforts of those in need of kokoun poco loco the spirits came un poco loco the spirits un poco loco the spirits

the same for each, the treachery of the figuratively deaf blind & dumbmonkey see monkey do monkey hum a few bars & fake it, take it out

take it where air has never flown before, take it to the top not from wherethose say who do not know, no secret but secret knowledge unhidden

in the quest for free form bound by associated conventionsdismantled intentions yellow brick road to the level Hell

its circles un-Danted, its lines indented, its measure invented with signature phrasebuilding resistance among its leitmotifs bothered to abstraction

the bucket sprays a wall of sight with soundaround which aficionados murmur

the bird or the traneeach one the same plane & one of their own both in



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F IGHT FLIGHT FLIGHT FLIGHT

a jazz of eye,a language of ear

hearing infinity for an hour

while talking to a wild flower

with nerve enough to answer back

given a Blake eye

its border an ashen smudge

of downfalls & fires

emblazoned on the phoenix

emblem. Just as fire

smokes the process blazes

to new life, to

FLIGHT!

Across the sty

the reticent watch

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gn

d i

e ds nc ee cn sd ain

g into the great

Dutch Uncle in the sky puffing his dirigible across the day darkeninghis rhetoric with fitful spins of retrograde propellers his jet engines

unknown to quantum mechanics in blue worksuits intoning

technical exhortations to blasphemy among the economicallydiscarded & their hatching broods. The retarded movementof obsolete diseases pleases the recumbent eye of theaffluent, seizing his dodecaphonic greed throughapertures of needy fingers his actual tonica dominant thirst for sight of the earth-bound taking

FLIGHT

and pausingto admire their wing

formations a liquid thatrefreshes tired sensibilities

at the threshold of reedy affluencewith prophetic babies riding baskets

through the rushes, bull-like as only a cowcan be when exercising its gender differential

amid tensile etchings of winch and pulley stretchingthe rigor taut at private institutions of higher learning

or aching for a better alternative unstated even deniedas the ruddy face appeals to the Master of the Sky to deliver his



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dro

p dp ri on p dg p rs i o

n p dg p rs i o

n p dg p rs i o

n pg ps i

ngs

to SPLAT! against the watchful eyes of the populace

a h s e a s a hs e a h s e s e h s

s s h s s ea e h a

s e s se h

h s a s h h es e s s e sh a a s

downing to raise as Arizona retirement communities shuffleboard bingo & swing the dustband of crowning Stetson natives riding restless in the southwestern dust a treasure on the

make looking for blue-haired ladies to make hay take wing take everything that isn’t

nailed down to the deeply-rooted tumbleweed indigenous to moral issues elegant in their



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thoughtful persuasion to mundanityno capacity for mendacity ensuing only controlof thought control of opaque dissonances

in the duskan eye awaitsits sky of musicits ear of color

steadfast in its anticipation hurtling through thethe fervor of nostrils lavender sky awaiting

placating the tendencies the music of chrome

of oxygen to demand its continuity

breath and depth of surface shiny as

substance abuse

where there can be no

RISING RISING RISING RISINGthere can be no

phoenix

only the exhortation to

jazz of eye,language of ear



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RISE ACROSS THE SUNSET!FLY ACROSS THE NIGHT!

BRING HOME THE SECRET DEPTHS OF THE MADDENED

THEIR CRIES THE TONALITY OF ANCIENT ARCADESCRY AGAINST THE SKY!RING THE DARKNESS WITH SHADOWS!BRING HOME THE GOLDEN SPEARS!

COME HOME CARRIED ON A FULL MOON SHIELD!YIELD TO THE PRESCIENCE OF NUDE INVESTORS

PRUDITORY IN ECONOMICS ONLY DOES THEIR MORALITY PLAY!

(listen to your Dutch Unclehis cigar’s last grasp

of fruitful thingsgone to ashes

gone to dusk& buggerall

while sonnets march forward immune to presencetheir essence cocked roosters of sodden form

free as a thesaurus to seek its ownmeaning however derivative

against the robin’s egg smashingthe corporate leader’s head

the meltdown ever so popularin its joyful menace

the movement reverses itself mid-turn& turn again (& again & again & again &

odd infinitum the perishablenature of its reversal



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sodden roosters march presence immune to essencewhile their cocked form sonnets forward

ONE MORE TIME!

only with cigar droppings ashes in flightto retrograde perversion in

Volkswagen bugs, hugging basketballcentaurs in lieu of wanton

saxmen reeding the rushesback to front

hunting the hidden forbiddenreprise

offered only to the couponedelite baring trousers in public

la dolte vida nothing lasts forever

not the fake book’slast measure of freedom

barcoded to acrylic symmetryin the barroom’s truculent barley mist

& gains bear their short-age with the patience of subsidy

only therecan the lost substance be,found, unfound, unsubstantiatedly true



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as the rigor of anecdote demandsof its young, the argot of recycling vaporslayering ozone in the salons of the flesh

where talons await the predatoreyeing the mirror’s rejections

with grave acuity

only there, and only canrhythm seek its own lever.

TREASURE THIS MOMENT

where ashes meet ashes& dust meets dusk on crosscountry

frights wig its circular go-round

stopovers in Phoenixlayovers in cheap motelsof rumored stewardless legend

with god as a co-plot

defendant no more!

no, more dustno, more ashes

dependent on a good Dutch Uncle’s cigar

exhorting Cuba to boycott the Phoenixall cinder no ashes,no ashes no phoenix



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NO ING! not even the processdevoured by starving millions in Third World countries

a generous corporate contribution

offered in lieu of the Realcodes with bars of fern plants

hanging

everywhere you lookfor rocks crawl out from

life takes itself intoyour own hands

gripping a plumbing wrenchthumping dull against the lawripping

as c s

ro

t h e p a g e

sound & furry signet flying



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NO ING! (a fate ofindecision

exercised with the utmostprecision, enacted protractedly

against tactile bulges

the incipient retreadconveys through poster hatea desire better left to posterior

for belated inconclusion

and other mastersof great certainty)

humbling even the broadest of wing spansflapping from the gallery of lust

in-Danted with insufficient prefixes

to ensure their berated uncoveringa fixture in the pillar of commodes

a harmony evanescent its discordgrows

frantic, seeking rain across the stars,ruin across the skis, ever thed

own

wa

rd



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grope the groupiesgripe the grippersripping off the set

Gone Hollywoodwith footprint aspirations& Chinese

the appropriations lugubrious

the accommodationstrusting to blind flight a burning thistle

in the sweet eye of lint.

Screeningthe encyclical process

the blurt buggers descriptionwith root image

parfait a glucose semaphore

to the needy in their triumph

ajazzof language,ear of eye,

mordant with vigorous trustingwit that bites indentures

inordinate to the bellicosewandering of primal screens.



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Men without windowslive that way. Open doors

with no knobs to carry backpacks onrustic trust in government’s (b)anal thrustpurpling the gritty lotions of the hunted.

Run through the blaze unknowingthe cinder singeing your ash is

ajazzof language,a jazz of language,a jazz of language,a jazz of language,

ear of eyeear of eyeear of eyeear of eye,

refurbishing unwitnessed decibelswith watt’s age & fern bar takeouts

Chinese, acryllicfootsteps attackl

(a fate of

indecision

Gone Hollywoodand other mastersof great certainty)

the remnants of Grummond’ssmoking days delays while they

unaccompanied by the midstof dissimilar others



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up

from

the ashes

THE PHOENIX

RISES



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GROUND ZERO





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Ground Zero

where we are desert flat tumbleweed heartbeats

* where we are desert flat tumbleweed heart beats

*

heartline pulsates gravel rakes bump across

[] [] []

Bill Dixon started here.

/SPAREminimalist

mute

-ation



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where it all begins

*

flat across the desert silence the muted solo heartbeats at a minimum spare the mutationsextrapolating currency from the source rumbling its uranium muse spinning the dread ofall creation severed from the absinthe’s flow where no other can go be fore (or aft)

merrily we roll our mutations along the rapturedindentations

of karmic-muscled fury indentured to intensedeliberations

between warring reptiles the armadillopigmentations

shoot buntline’s Tuesday Specialblue toots preciously mute the heatspecies endanger with there

where we are boiled musicbipeds slinging heartbeats

indigenous opposition’s brutesinging choirs of blue necessity

orchestrate the coup

The croupier’s gamble never rusts its menacethe starfall deer never leap the sun its miserly flourishthe crystal runs its horse against suntimesthe centimeters of metric fury enamoredthe deathrattle purring its last with lightthe intrepid beetle runs tepid reflectingthe call of the wild thing running itself againstthe tempered tales of wizening the hoary multiplethe existential question ever silently exponential

runningdeep its indigestion never

satisfied its appetite



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accusing the intimate of sheep when fed itselfwhen a banjo steal will do the opposite

retracts defeats the greater

perpetratorsthe tumbler meets its fill water sealsthe leather hides rattle in the barn itself off from the neatthe ride stumbles underfoot off canticle mutes

from spur mutationsthe glossaries of the chanticleer

riding heartbeat across the Western ledge (end a (s) (n)desert flat begin mute trumpet side desert music

the heartbeat felt otheritself waiting, pulsating with

anticipation & her three blastgirlfriendswho shall remain

elsewhere in this heat where the sky is the furnaceand the ground its penthouse magnate building casino magicsprouting alfalfa sounds in husking winds where it all

BEGINS:

once upon a jeep graveling heartbeat across flatline readings the cloud mushrooms in thedistance of its conceiver’s eye winking slyly at the Hiroshima of history the roadside standsselling fried armadillos the mutations of hundred foot cacti muted free improvisation triedat its source the heart throbbing growths in the distance of ideas felt heard scene itspresence immediate no time to wait nor hesitate raining gravel raining snares raining wordsfrom sources predating predatory growths of liposuction veneer twisted ruins of fabricof mind twisted ruins of kind pursuits skeletal as Burma Shave roadside memories

TWENTY MILES TO COUNTDOWNTWENTY MILES TO COUNTDOWNTWENTY MILES TO COUNTDOWNTWENTY MILES TO COUNTDOWN

it said tracing the sequence its own blipping heartbeat’s gravel thump beside the roadless traveled the rave unpaved the rant unchanted inside the shell of turtle heat themeat of the moment mushrooming anticipation’s dread the heavy air lying there thickas imagined clouds shrouding the merry moment of dissuasion when persuasion is



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not an optionnor a compositional ployof Ancient Mariners landlocked

in the literary moment

or two basses bandlocked in duetdraping wet textures of sound (the density)over the muted trumpet (its implied intensity)

mutating soundas life imitates evolution

or versa’s vise removes its grip

from the illusion of seeming

no pocket goes unsown (or untapped)weakly in its forensic midstthe mind wanders trapped (unseamly)voices of discord raisingharmony in its looted clusters

toying with sandrocked explosions

mad in the minefield midst

of where you step

(how deep the roadside doo

you cross through

loquacious magicin the moment’s frenzied delight

the sway of shock absorberssitting in the audience experiencing transmission

as platitude or insigniawaving its muster like hot dogs

in the dustbowl stadiumof carefree relics forwarding past to future



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tumbleweed heartbeats tossing heatwhere grain denies itself as other & seeds

ravish the momentum of historyrocky with the insignia heralding glory

in loops of animositycircling the animate in their dreary code

berates its tragicsoliloquy of colloquial drive-bys

exorbitant in their pricenagging economics of a one-horse town

bad meat the medallionof prehistoric crossing guards

of the time that land forgota million dead eyes watching the final clock

to the momentwhere growth explodes its

shattered fury with goryinsignificance lavish with animus

CONTINUESCONTINUESCONTINUESCONTINUES

FIFTEEN MILES TO COUNTDOWN

a (s) (n) of last anticipation lost to cornfields of the unwary

other distraught with the clarity of their very own ambiguity

blast patching sleeves of the autonomous wedge



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pledges itself to distractionas another past blips gravel across the heartbeat of terraintumbling past other mirrored inflections

centrifugal in their holdat the edge of attraction the last gavel slips its weary mumble

deflecting rumors of future abstractions

bumbling fleets of the unmitigatedwho invaded Caesar’s gall

(after the pause that defleshes)

rampant mystiques obtrudethe burgeoning necessities felt sweat

stamping out their immediacy (end-mute, blARE:

to the autumn another musicfull thistle blown but urgently

(double thrum) awaiting the grating strings

humming

below the desert’s middle sea the fossils goautomatically deeper under the dunes of Sphinxesgiving answers weight, the credence revived

under water

heartbeats flat against the desert throb hooves

percussion’s tint winding west where the east lies

under

hapless rays of the betrayal of oak residueclinging to unseated beliefs in the heartfelt



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water

dusting matter into energy hydroelectric

nuclear Strontium 90 windfall other acid rainsdecreed by acrid reigns to mutate the spirit

the evanescenceof storm cloudsgathering flowers

while the may-pole twists slowlyin the wind-downthrough the verystem of being’s

most intricatethrumthrumthrum


*

where we are desert flat tumbleweed heart beats

*

WE ARE

intricate in our most fertile disasterfluxed with imminent distasteawait the crux of dissension’s

spirit a heartbeat thumping



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the arid. There

the outpost finds its ruins

amid the clued

fecundity of assistance in a land

where no man

nor water

[] [] []

They dwelt across theand thought so too, despiteall other attempts to

The questions raised eyebrowed answerssleek with necromoniconic concomitantswhen they. And the very reason why.

Heartbeats mutate at the ledge.Reason know its sum. A costly benedict

leans cozily against its laconic lariat

telling legend across the.

He came to town with his boots on.Holstered its vehemence to where

the next note blARES

a (s) (n)past exhilaration crossing boundaries off the uncaring

other fraught with the peril of immaculate terror the brutal

blast onslaught taking its measured time against all the



tEN MILES TO COUNTDOWNtEN MILES TO COUNTDOWNtEN MILES TO COUNTDOWNtEN MILES TO COUNTDOWN

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thrum, thrumthrum. thrum

thrum, thrum

thrum. thrumthrum, thrumthrum. thrum


thrum, thrum

thrum. thrumthrum, thrum

heart.beatsheartbeatsheart.beatsheart.beatsheart.beatsheartbeatsheart.beatsheartbeatsheart.beats

heartbeatsheart.beats

000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

the journey paces itself the sonic explosion raises the flats a boom only prosperity candefine an Ozzie & Harriet cameo cruising the tumbleweed fro burgers or takeout pizzastake out across the street coffee in hand newspaper at the wheel a reel Grade B stainsdown the front of the surveillance equipment guarded fortunes of the fortunate hailing

uptown cabs from the curb unwary of the very process protecting them from their inner

[] [] []



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Dangers pose the worst just ask any

model that comes through here

A or T doesn’t matter, nor the gas

When they ask for it just

(can’t go wrong that way,

or left

Behind the multitudinal sway of etherthe conscious rays its grip (nor answers

candy of the unfolded laundry secret in theirspinning dryers across the tense)grammar of geography no axe abatedquestioned for the parsing of simian thunder abettedat mighty heights accruing their ledge aidedthe experts felt the heartbeat’s muting air raided

tradedarcs of pentagrams bestow their visible means beratedfurious geometry knows no where nor does it statedarrow the invisible target with roadside marrowremaindered

in the fields

of the gored

The oxen pulled his stash nightly(slow) going across the desert of will

(still) thrashing the whip’s umbilical(heart) record of toxic merriments(beat) lashing the spill of the daring

(blare) to explode stars against the nightswith all the force you too

reach for the apex of gingivitis united in discrepancies of the very who dwell in the houseof each divided query well nor teach the nadirs of notwithstanding time-crux redundanciesderided clocks & other time pieces of high noon scattered over sand of weathered brain



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dust tarred & feathered in future times past so tense no tense invents nor purchases for

there

is where the music (heart)

beats (blARES

ANCIENT ROOTS UPRISINGANCIENT FRUITS REPRISINGANCIENT SUITS REVISING

time & its lurid glow

where

(music) there is the heart

(blARES beats

where we are off-center

tracing the glory of injurious flightexplosion implosion starting at

NINENINENINENINE

millimeters seeking to balancethe microtonal ballast leaking

the gorge of latent ruin

en route to repetition’s first delineation

a yield of attrition paces its nationsigns it on cymbals on places on syntheses

ad hoc temporal magicthe meat of legislative ruinreeking desert heat



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like a rattler’s death heart beat

the snare raps its taps of governancethe metric of the metropolis now become

an oligopolis that won’t bite unless you move

away from

GROUND ZEROto the

polis of the missile thrustthe polis of the trust of instinctual

rabbit hutches bunching the aggregate polymers

to the

bleary mercantilism of triglycerideswhere fatty acid steeps its uproarious glow

into the carboxyl of mythic soup left unaccountable.

Still,the least must

risewith the vigor of escargot

repletingthe size of demonstrative

escaroleferreting the rigorous depletion

unslumberedas the nascent turret lathing

lumbering





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to the harbinger of latent furysurging forefronts to the rearclinging tentatively to the mereabundance of fictive fact

an act that necessarily swallows the whole it wallows in(red clay) heat puddles hissing cymbal ringringringring sizzling

fingers flutter the ringing over the doublebasses doubling(fatty acid) the strum thrum POP! pluck Be-DONG! coming against

the soul’s nutrients

POP! pluck Be-DONG! the SWEETNESS of Be!-IngPOP! pluck Be-DONG! onSLAUGHTness on timePOP! pluck Be-DONG! WING-ing its FORE-groundPOP! pluck Be-DONG! POP! pluck Be-DONG!

stop punk begone or other rhythms stun among usthe lotus sphere loquacious here drops funk in schismsthey’ve done us a spacious design of interim specious

junk clunk belongs to others in the grim groundingof sounds wedged against thicker than texturesreeling through wheatfields of meaning’s brick thickets

increases the beat’s ring of eating bought circlesdistraught before time caught its nuance astoundsinging lore stressor dealing appeals the oppressors

forgot the century of the crime before time forgotthe land that feeds them dead music they wrought

SEVENSEVENSEVENSEVEN

time’s over, the ref said, riffing his skiff or the wattage

In the determinate cliffs of fatty acid

germinating ignominious feathers of serpentine aridityno hammer shall read its way

stiffer than roads already musteredthe gusto of fisheries in toxins of leather-making machinery

always rave in place of banners



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a loco pridein the essence of essence

if the known

be truth or declared truant as such

the note-waryshall hear the strumpet’s siren call

scary as allsacramental barflies to the mustard

of guillotinesblazing both barrels heads will rumple

stilts kinbreed with police badges

threatening tofeed cross-country tourists

to the wedgethey form in the flying face of local life

no room leftfor emendations accommodations or aberrations

nor bereftof situations commendations for citations

of accuracy in

SIX

mediums

too well, they decrythe infamous vintage of extremes

barring their vantagesilently running deep

when the opposite retracts



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retracts , retracts

refracts , refracts , refracts

its leftmost utterance

to echo in the way

light refracts

to convey its muted

abstinence

in the absence of numberwhere the shield of the projective field

annunciates its reflective yield of invective

for the benefitof the two parity systemrich with its history of antihistamines

protecting the golden pollenfrom its sniveling recipients

*

there the heartbeats its where with all

*

coming

down

to

FIVEFIVEFIVEFIVE

water seals from the glossariesof mystic texts self-proclaimedprotect the leakage of privatetruths seeking



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a (s) (n)other answers not to be found

in the wreckage ofblast

or whatever mutating sequence

CONTINUES

there, or wherever the croupier’s gambleleaps the sun: centimeters of metric tales enamoredagainst the hoary multiple exponential with light

silently running tempered tales ofthe existential question against

the hoary multiple

The bitter fugue continuescentrifugal in its ambient curryspiced with stuccoed wizening the neatstumbles underfoot canticle mutes

intrinsically humbling defeats the greaterwhere bumbling with perpetratorsappetites that astoundthe sounds of the un-

distinguished / extinguishedfollies verge air wherever the

hunger strikes

There,

FOURFOURFOURFOURask not



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the mutation’s mindly blarefourth coming out of all sole eveningsintrepid with conclusions of foregone delight

wizening in the dark with hoarswhile badges shield their furtive yieldunder covers of abstract specimen,

nor

obtrude in its abstruse wakening.The hope is. More than what itprecludes, making obtuse its

not

the song of the ancient. Threethrumming treetops of long strandsof branded memory’s candles

[] [] []

withhold. The matter weeps at its reckoning scandal its mordent. Hopes inverted is just usdelayed, no matter. How far the crow. Flies the straightlaced fie the intern and his cara-

pace accruing in the armadillar transfer of heartbeat energy to the chordal hum ofthrumming basses beneath the blare, raising it higher. The note as electrode, the neutronas sound node: akin within the heartbeat breathing its rising pace. Charge the tumble-weed: electrified tendrils reek out the firesome stench, slither desert eels gliding over gravelthe dry snakes of Eden charged the sun’s anticipated brightening enlarge the sky toencompass. The ship estate barges star-bored into ports of calling fish through the biennialstages of attrition documented by independent sources of hearsay. The evidentiarythrum blares bass drums thunder snares pop motors rev ready run the edge jump as

*

The night approachesday in its august midst dissemblingunknown factors

inherent with fortitude, forbearance its miscuea deed insistent with attitude, uncaring with all



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intensityits implied

of seemingdensity

due distaste. Inside the clutches far pavilionthe papillon deeds its kiss to the gravel-paced

rumpus of eggshellsremunerating the hen for its young

betrothal of love

as a form of lesser mutation

landlocked in suet or illusionof fortitude in fortissimo either

sound advances its mutationor per) incendiary tractors

cross the grain with humdrumsof dissipate ensuing the litigantsof the spirit

for giving its excessall due immensity

while confusing erectitude with trajectorythe pinnacle

understates its heightas calculated from

wanders trapped in dustbowl mindshoping to find its charge

sur, meta, sum, beta





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scurrying ferrets internalized the weighing dangers offset in actors’ trailers the reel terror lurking in the mirrormutation blaring is reflection of hordes hurrying toward

a (s) (n)historic rain prepares the autumn of its last nobilityin pursuit of a ductile recreation vehicle repairingto the last despair inherent in the last metaphysical

per suit, per capita

the laundry emerges unscathed

dissolute, but rapidly

becoming

a (s) (n) squinting eye of

other selves approaching

the new blast

TWOTWOTWOTWOmusics heardone earturned deaf

with syncopated anticipation

piercingits verynostrils

amid the ampersands of everyday diligencethe clockwork of springs unsprung & springing

blARES



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refracts , refracts , refracts

retracts , retracts

the the

bell magic

free of its

powers blast

under pinned

its the

converging

thrum POP! pluck Be-DONG!

the image in processdeclares itself empty

the empty in processdeclares itself image

the process declaresitself in empty image

the in image declaresitself empty process

ONEONEONEONE

PERMUTATION WORDS ANOTHERPER MUTATION WARDS AN OTHER

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thrum. thrumthrum ,thrumthrum. thrum



thrum, thrum

thrum. thrumthrum, thrumthrum. thrum

thrum, thrum

heartbeatsheart.beatsheartbeatsheart.beatsheartbeatsheart.beatsheartbeatsheart.beats

heartbeatsheart.beatsheartbeatsheartbeats

Crystal anodynes crush the unhurried.Synapses sneak their hockers in tow.Astride cataleptics the sea mists emergegauntlets tossing the fro from the two to

market the hazelnuts dressed trans-missions, watching their epithets gargle& glow. TO THE LIGHT, TO THE LIGHTcry minds counting numbers betweennumber. Starts the factional breakdownto fractions. Actions thump attractionsbump corporate mergers to copulateseats in backs of auditoriums ever. Thewatch heats. The boil waters. The lambseeks its glow beside the still wattage.Electricity flows sounds to the finger’s

touch and. The moment is. Near the endof the sequence of anticipation squattingfor its leap the crackle sings its singeingmusic one last breath before mergingthe urgent force that follows its own

music blares its atom blast

sound sears passing skinwhere the din heats its aural

maze ventriloquy startsleaping voices overlapping

a (s) (n) other blast at



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a (s) (n) other blast

at

heat inversion puddles hissing cymbal ringringringring sizzling

dustbowl minds hoping to find

currency from

the croupier’s gamble

boiled music bipeds

choirs of blue necessity




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