33.0: CREATIVE COMMONS
Just Lexicons
~ George Oppen A zero, a nothing, a barbarity — Cars on the highway filled with speech, The darkness of trees. The extreme from up-state (Grateful for a breeze): He who will not work shall not eat. It is …
Posted in 33.0: CREATIVE COMMONS 1 CommentBeautiful
The word’s been bounced about in gas stations as you’re pumping way, the spectral drops on the pavement. You resent it there, that serpent. The word’s been bellowed out a bar door flooding with night after a tab’s been left …
Proverbials
You wax my back and I’ll wax yours. An itch in thine saves mine. As the twig is split so the toothpick’s kindling. A rolling cupboard gathers no moths. Don’t cook all your eggs in one biscuit. Let not the …
Contenders
we sit lined in dim light our fists bloodied from the fight our hearts on fire our failure smoking still
Posted in 33.0: CREATIVE COMMONS Leave a commentOne Word D’elfin
Where families go to be families, unseen and unseeing The photograph has all of its teeth, it’s an elf, a brief elf. The sun makes pale the over-constructed nose, the wispy hints of vanishings. It’s an age trap where …
Posted in 33.0: CREATIVE COMMONS 1 CommentWanted, taken
OFFER: 3 cans fly spray assorted videos Ashbury Pregnancy test, Hurlstone Park WANTED: Road bike (pref. working condition) Plaster for mould making TAKEN: old bamboo blinds St Peters OFFER: Assorted shells (Forest Lodge) RECEIVED: ping pong table OFFER: half set …
Poems For Ivor Cutler # 3
I walk uphill to get groceries. At the top of the hill, it goes down and there’s the store in a small valley. Then I walk back uphill and down, home; though, sometimes, I have a pot of tea half-way, …
Posted in 33.0: CREATIVE COMMONS Leave a commentCan-Am Series
for CAS Chlorine chances taken cribside Bast-thistle rehearse sable her since startle A creel of stars or starts Begin marine-smitten and blind static alba, finial, estuary his rheumatic There are traces of coals in the lymph Serum against the astrolabe …
The Fighting Temeraire
after Twombly after Turner 1 Falling down in triplets the ships shifted and shook primed but nothing else This is how you jettison a load slowly but with forgiveness 2 To be built for fighting is just another …
Posted in 33.0: CREATIVE COMMONS Leave a commentzane takes a bullet in the chest
there is blood but not a lot there is pain but not a lot there is hope but not a lot there are cries but not many there is a life but only short there is truth but only one …
Posted in 33.0: CREATIVE COMMONS Leave a commentGarden Piece
This is not a document of barbarism, we said but the weather was fine and the girls/women were in swimsuit ads or at least we thought they were, but from our position on the dirty parterre, really …
Posted in 33.0: CREATIVE COMMONS Leave a commentLessons in Ideational/Propositional Meaning Theories
That is that though the is is the that though. That is the, though that is though, the is that, the and though though though is that. Is that that and that? That though is the The. The is the …
Posted in 33.0: CREATIVE COMMONS Leave a commentFlarfing Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg Academic articles, collected poems Cancer-related heart attack, intelligent bridge-player The most reliable source: corduroy, synthetic biology, rare foot Howl, Howl, Hello, my name is blog! Whitman, Ginsberg, Washington DC Zombie Hamster obscenity trial Longtime spokesperson Forthrightly gay, freedom …
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