Metropolis 17
An amazed maze of mills
pursuing impoverished vintages
slain, hilly, cedars
dearest estate & the story
begins here: I'm gonna write this and forget
I'll be you later, a sumptuous
funeral era lost its spectators the world
I keep putting money in it
a moment commodity pacified
fort the poorest narcissism
fumed, universal
elite volumes and how
to live in it, multiple hides
slippery slow logs, more or less, I'm less
moved (there's money in that
loosening boot strap of one
does one's own bearded
orphan the lost mort
of cracking codes
Complex plus
aphasia at the trade
show autre verb for nothing
to go with the slacks lit-for-who bar
chord a rumor who sequels pleasure
a stumped orbit
bound to be cooked down
dug up tea shop
slurred his prince-name
what too much of a good thing can mean
getting together on blinking
Surrey in jesus
step away from the vehicle
grinding paper dolls a survey
of accidents uncertainties, gaps
in data this is where
the conspiracy begins: I don't
but if I did have a gold chain
it'd glisten on a shore in NJ
where ransom speaks louder
than random if the opposite is true:
when you asked me if I'm a dog-lover
I was being ironic
Banquet of missed inventions
this is where I forget whom
the burden of the clarity bell
strikes thrice clearly some
missing out going on here
----the urge to speak
of a grass/blade/like
that/wasn't it/ this is
where the orientation gets leafy
the great lakes portfolio
a late blossoming in the burbs
muffled up, scattered
holding out for the vulnerable
it was life-long, I mean life-like
when I said it was life-like
I was being realistic
An exit awning
and the workers spit a little
how do you get the coal-miners into your work?
stock explanation, wage the store
I wouldn't want to
sit behind you like some
sick patient asking
for Nice, this is where a cell
phone'd be
(handy) this isn't your living room
that's one question: the trees
flutteringall at once and not
at once at once
we, we, we,
& even their makers seem to recognize
a sometime sobering
slippery bi-artisan
a furry menagerie of the spirit-
backslash event-ual watcher of
war ships, ATM teller of rights
bank on a countermeasure equation
possible=infinity plus desire
where did you get those ideas?
what do you want from me?
a censored stream n'
Winnipeg a public
trump, turners, the fox
a few figures left standing
in a remodeling zone in a department
store police tape for a jury
a planted apology
a standing date with success
Exotic salary table
well you must've written it down
wrong-- it's a personal day
asleep, adult sounding
an angle overworked
to violate a recent ember
following our mean right
duchess county accustomed to deflating
attempting cart of desserts to cross
a tiny fragile horror merged
in ferns forms conquered his
parents (his career confirmed it)
vertically speaking, wistful a real
dick for details, an electronic pump, a pro-
grammed hockey puck, rinsed out
of a significant advance anchors
dropped nerve or mustard
do you know here I can get
rid of these?
(but there are a lot of things that don't matter
and they add up
Castle Hill
getting through
to anywhere cellular, still. . .
East Tremont, a wish, he has
sin he has pardon
a clogged parkway in vain. . .
what would you give in exchange
for his soul? requests?
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The bageling of America
Cos Cob, no fresh fruit here
though talk of fresh fruit
and California from afar a Ford Escort
Scarsdale lawn god, self-
storage, you'll love it
in Levitown offers
a neighbor choice of three: the fireman
Essex, house of anatomy
this is where the nexus
about that crash &
carry thing, a representation I
can't believe these pants EVER fit
but the scheme IS the thing, meanwhile,
adrift, MY captain never knew fish n'
chips, these are pleasing, soft
luggage tags, poster parents,
my decision stands but wobbles--
yeah, right, like I
backed into you!