from bailiwick \ BAY-luh-wik \ , noun
4.
He took his homeward way outside the park and how

to conjure up a picture for instance of a town without

allowance must be made for those who, without

once, presumably, this quadrangle with its smooth lawns

true, what he felt was no more than a longing

but, said his father stopping in front of the drawing

there are many causes for a suicide, and generally the most

notice, for instance, on the back wall above his head

men and women consume one another rapidly in what

his father told him that story his father looked

it swayed, minute after minute, hither and thither among

what she thought about those people, about herself, about life

at forty, worn down by the strains and stresses of

this led me to remember what I could

I have never seen anyone die for the ontological

town itself, let us admit, is ugly.


5.
Anyhow, now they had to get out whether

the technician tapped his wrist pointed to his mouth

he stood a good chance of being drafted and even

you’ll die when you hear well you know when

it’s worth thinking about and out in California

all of a sudden he was alive again my friend

picked wrong on that United States Civil War picture

he had more success with him than with himself

the great gleaming sky of Los Angeles as bright as if

obviously he had shown up to holiday-greet a relative resurrection

wind in the bamboo rustled on although dead and in

himself he thought she died as she lived

and then there was another I remember of a girl

beaming Fiddler on the Roof down at me with its psychotronic

meters began to register and the mechanism hummed where am I

into the boom mike Jason said smoothly keep all those

Each poem in this sequence is a collage of a personal library of an anonymous micro-tech worker

on Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk site. I only know them by their handles — in this case

AWFOG7VQH39H9 and A1GV0PBEWEEGIL, respectively.