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Collected Poetry

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Rewrite of early asyntactical prose poems—expandable table of contents. Click on title to view poem. Only one poem can be viewed—opening a second poem will close first poem. Occasional use of scroll bar may be necessary to improve poem location. Press (ctrl) F5 to refresh table of contents.


  Grain Soar

Trek radar palsy jitters chew.
Insistent pierce sought jet rancor
gnaw arctic rival stage grueling.
Caprice, arc cheap butter off.  Saddle
kin dwelling.  Winston sin sin Roger.
Goodbye fowl trend woo, ballroom, wedge
early partner card son—yearly sinew.

Leak angular mistook woven navigator
sand surrey even con nod ah.  Be knocker
send sawed, "An inkling of aren't key,
givingly bend soda toast."  Reef easy
bookie slam harbinger gale.  Bam,

shy dough, variant clock knee, whisper
marrow tithe against eager grain soar
soprano.  Toxic back turn wriggle tour
motivation rail.  Earnestly splinter vested,
gravid rapture adaptation becoming
noiseless a to.  Adjacent ink region
bodily roster father dairy now.  Bath cheers.
Vain bail oars temper seal sunk fraudulent
mixture.  Quiz lizard gist pitted maul endeavor.

Bulk purger pumpkin bid mark tango entreaty.


  Buzz Billy Sulk

Chalk what flew Billy thensome.  Slam
ankle yank this temper fee cone
beer money wisely.  Ball tour wrap tall,
bore wrap tea carry once ounce
air or so Ma.  Leap soon eat chore
less sis mop poke to pop a fairway.
Stray asshole trap shove deceive lean
the bend shunned.  Our cut man
cover hour doubt, hardly thaw that
tripped moon contentment.  Anxious
an sore hurry drift bringing a
cleft enough saw there.  Past is oh.

Other do rocked reached hints
snappy caps surely are.  Others
do rocked rolled.  Greet sorry rips pack
john jingle:  chuck dung fury with
mingle.  Alley rail not wheel bricks
cat cannery soon such sail, as fail
sail.  Pinned grease anger sinks
trucks loaned if artery remains
much slow dough bowed motel.


  Insofar

When tall which sought ready assessed
shot soon teasing window, when too cant
marginal hot in shoe blessed tested,
the win sector toppled tot accord.
Are kindred orchard sailed no tropes
but xylophone incentive.  Sand savvy roar,
sand savvy roar ragged actor be so
bused on smitten much floor order
deftly.  I cottage yes a wardrobe.
Tin barker took inhospitable comas;
where women wishing.

Whereas Vienna, therefore Wien.
March Marx whelm blister two do
fiscal corridor:  like as.


  Tender Lobby

Lure on flask night clerk
cellar beef air banking
cardigan flan mirrors.
Gentlemen sworn bell fare
near handle clause, rule,
screens spoke legal glancing.
Punches moot collar environs.
Gear applause, hearty shoe jerkings
candle side remonstrances
inching a tier sleeves, tumblers,
simple row ware; follow mere
loose scratching.  …stain,
rusty bowlers and, digits flat
banister buckle gravies down unnoticed.
Drips linen.  Too replenish sofa from
call turkey, halls turkey more turkey
more round dancers boa trapping
exits feather.  Cleave rouge age.

Dried bolo waxes mantle, rhinestones,
fancy, saying port apples luggage.
Knives thumbing ear remarks marks,
pounds, dollars, fancies—kindle
brick sterling rocker caught napkins.
Is necktie chew matter.  Knows
passes fruit tailor.

Stuffed the lobby smoking panes aunt
lamps at newsprint evening edges.
Inside muff clatter jokes end
to kitchen quiet funnies. Reclined,
with glasses bald pole shadows,
brandy reading.


  Blue Shoes Downtown

There is a lot of madness downtown.  With
great variety in the score, it called for
plenty of sixteenth notes.  He said he was
a jazz player from Nebraska.  Of course.

There is a lot of madness downtown. And
jazz players.   He said he was
a jazz player from Nebraska.  Remember,
I thought he had a funny lean to him
because of those blue shoes he wore.
The blue ones he wore downtown.  He said
he was a jazz player from Nebraska.
Played jazz downtown. He could put
variety in a score if it called for
plenty of sixteenth notes.  Of course.
I thought he had a funny lean to him.
He said he was a jazz player from Nebraska.
There's a lot of madness downtown.


  Digs in Spade Special

Endlessly queer reach and an tan
tool knocker loop top wrought rope rope.
Aberdeen.  Brew that, Abilene route rock
so salt so salt so so.  Bitter cars honey,
bitter cars shouldered gainly heathen medley;
aren't effigies in Fargo.  Belief brought dolt
narrow digs in spade.  Digs in spade special.
Yeah throttle, rib sausage pond thigh; spray
frayed spade space.  Greasy cast axle alibi.


  Bump Cunt

Rash jab tinker longing crease
billow prevent bursting inherent.
Bark undulation, stringy do repeatedly
low socket boulevard spread lasts tuft.
Wrench length ambition teeter jerks,
crackers, dribble toad pounding
freed mammoth life-like neo waltzing—
neon faster caricatured devices.
Blood rubbing colossal, handbills
check kept wrestle above squirts
favor oblivious.  Head intrigues spew
stealing bitch bother, bother raffish.

Bulge ardor driven nervous keyhole
sawing.  Pat ringer insert horse-sense
spill again buttons brim follow.
Flop sluice tan squeal gutter jam, juicy.

Palm ramble nape ancient curlies to
down chew.  Jesus, strap shit fingered.
Careen suck hunk all.  Yes the,
reel crack buck tether buck bear out.
Be dog roll listless pecker raw.
Nest entry primate post penetration
nadir pasty and.  Pleased more imminent
sack pastime—cargo lubricants
now crouched, fecund in lap languor.


  Samoyed Condos

Laps such assured carports
carpet droll pets plaster
slips fresh exclusive and
non-indigenous FM desire.
Latest trimmed prefab
singles berth peeling
breeze lay.  Courts,
charted lotions, sand
errands sip assistants
tan or mount or waxing
hesitant.  Inches fern enzymes
mall thwart pseudo job jog and
sails full aerosol wetsuits;
submergible deck shoes.  Misty
hatchback trained slices sauna
issues filling leased thinness—
paying sperm killer impact.

Milligrams wore ten were
glass plate migraine asking
perishable Samoyed then kept
bleached.  Later pap mask
crumbs disco gloss must
coffee smear moaning
regions now angular, unbuttoned.
Good strokes marina smart cut
backhand rush stuff.  Cherished
moot position.  Relay caftan
stance dole easy abandon, moan
achieved.


  Sisters (Matches Succumb to)

Thumb serum couch in pencil eddy
fix cargo he land far high.  She
bargains random couch cough court
her table assayed are.  Are cargo
car serum he might tar thumb high
and table.  High I she eddy and
far bargain.  Court pencil cough cargo.
High she in I land hardly random
in serum thumb and eddy.  Car couch her
bargain, her serum.  He eddy pencil and
assay tar car mart.  Tar car mart.
Assay thumb serum eddy.  Tar table.


  Plead Media the Dickens

Crew rocky suede sunset parking lanyard
mishap filters this under eyewitness
clipboard network. Grip Mary Ann II
balcony, offshore cocktails crunched guests
and gaffer.  Dressed interests applied Jack
Daniels plasma scene.  Interlude:   jetty
camera about distress drew.  Replay basking
hoist sensual in essential cyclists barking a
seascape.   Seldom moored olives reporting;
and not mistake me from the real issue
when the bay drew my red shoes off and
most deftly away.

From out of the seaweed and around the bend
on Scenic Road, past Oceanview Avenue, I cried
all that beautiful way back to the car like a baby.


  That Fat Fat American e-Crap

That fat-that, that e-crap—that I
fat phone I jack that American fat
e-crap.  I crap that.  e-Crap I fat
like crap that.  Crap that American
e-fat, phone fat, I jack fat.  I fat that
e-fat that-that American I crap.  That
crap I e-fat like that-crap, phone fat.
I crap that American e-fat—jack fat.
Take a crap Jack that American e-fat
(doodoo some a that-that) American
no how.  Phone I some doodoo that I
crap, that phone-jack, that e-fat.  I fat,
Jack!  I e-crap.  No how I phone some
American I that, that I fat that-that
e-crap.  I like that.  Take it fat-back.


  Pancakes

Juke junk agate.
Juke junk agate.
Juke junk applejack,
juke junk agate.

Juke junk agate.
Juke junk agate.
Juke junk applejack
juke junk boom.

A big wave splashed
over the deck of the boathouse
and blew the kitchen
into the water.

Patty saw this happen.
She jumped into save it.

Dad saw Patty.  He threw
a rock into the water.
Then he put on his jacket.


  Dose Recognition

Reed, mauve, text, loam,
proof, earth, earn, parch,
fish, fail, fudge, gas,
ken, grade, heart, mess,
hatch, oar, park, fact,
red, moody.  Restless.

We were dorsal, tether, fairway,
dharma, parrot, finish, meter,
facet, undue, early, llama,
grandson, propane, harvest, reflex,
measly, object, mostly, garland,
parcel, frolic, impulsive.  Moody.

But there was something nice
about it.  Something about the laws,
the generous, the arcane, the assumptive
it.  That that, that this, that they…
we were.


  Push & Cheating

I can see the causes.
I can feel them.  I know
the touch of their influence.
And because of that I agree
to a collective response
toward those effects.  What else
can we do but name the most
heinous of acts and give them
an order, strengthen their meaning.

Even I would relent to
a conservative edge, the sharper
edge—the fallow brief chased
basin wasted rocked to talked past.
A down benched tract packed listing,
tried, or listening; throng loss
dreaded seed stop when new breath
went to bars.   Again, our see
thus ripped and healing, didn't
so many miles per hour?


  Jazz Nebraska

Frail canister Harding long
windsock the brass carrying
cutlets.  Unleavened ladle bent
social wrapped strings hilly,
brandish caliper trucks.
Ringer boys morning cattle
paw quilting cookie sheets.
Bushel rafter gossip Sunday
Emma gum ash after.  Fall,
dung acres.

Moon early mama the porch
neighbored lessons jowl.  Jamb
Bible hemp.  Quartered and
pennies baked for sidings butcher,
barbed, plate sermons canned.
Dusty gophers laces might
penknife virgin kerosene.

Shears melon elbow around
harvest apron.  Enema booties.
Flies silo gingham spittle bought
clouds.  Burlap rocker hopscotch
or boxcar blowing merry witch
Hazel.  Wells.

By the time Lowell was twenty-five
he had seen enough of small,
flat towns, the same girl, and
his rightful position at Barton's
Feed & Grain.  He left Emma
and the gray woodframe house
knowing they would last
just as long on his father's pension.
Lowell wanted to meet the faces
he might find on a street lit
with electricity.  He said as much
himself; he was tired of moonlight.

So he left for New York City
to play jazz.  And after a while
he stopped writing.


  City Purée

Wine lazy onions or
grate low-fat antenna.
Rare sturdy pepper low,
zest inside, fan floss
though tender thaw random
spoonful.  How those knuckles
pad, starchy sometimes catch
below.  Bell easy the fold-in
starter reach copper and borrow
lard quickly.  Buttered reset
convenient.  Or whether
electric all mostly twist-off
squash dressings; then whipped
anyway at preparation.  Coffee
miracles batter invention for
edgy presto messless.

"Chives."

Flip mixing, "Steam channel
pan beater highlights ostensible
crock."  Taste whip there turning.

Moderate fingers broil then
strainer for pouring scalloped
shown ready sipping.  Search
slice kids foil placement call.
Linoleum milk scoop—rice
count radio server freeze honey.


  Nude

Tall, thin, combination he
sauna unknotted.  This mist
swung massive hung narrow
cheek pale green tiles to
sore towel.  Maybe biceps that
dripping limped he tone lifts
angry hours, strains, fluid in
torn toward aggravation.  Agile
faucets increased casually
nodded a test hand thrown
into water.  Anguish racing,
echo walls solid for flexed
expansion had gathered door
to air groin fell open.  Coach
straddle and lob; then jets.

Bouncing perspiration sound
gymnasium above—vents
enter concrete within tendon
cheers dribbling, coached,
swelling within.  Nets metal
bone rubbed, pressed, taped
hair and grunted.  Want in
ref every eye the play demands
and suffer.  And steam and
aching fun fouled and mirrors
ardent in sweating threatened
jerseys in which only males
appear.

He dried his hair.  Awkwardly
he straddled the low wooden bench,
sat down, opened his locker and
lobbed the towel over the open door.
He rubbed the bruise on his ankle,
waited for the trainer to appear.
He rubbed the bruise on his ankle;
his penis fell about between his thighs.
His arms were axis, axes, yes ma'am
and see-saw.  They were very long.


  Bursting Zebras

Flyer wig butt comma fasten chance
bowl daddy fasten chance.  Knack one row
reckon blessed bets do bargain sweetie,
unseemly some more.  Pinched wishes pinch
fish Mrs. wishes.  Sudden hashish dressed
mesh dilemma down:   cheeeeeew, cheeeeeew,
chug chug, cheese...

In aren't in every chain or natty
we've breeze bees bottled black-eyed
Baltimore bash toned navy near such
or dirt whacked buy bored belted back
shout sore rackets took for bees, sore
bottles, shout throttles, black-eyed
breeze Baltimore stash summed navy near
such or whacked—get whacked or belted
back buy sore took for bees shunned, hummed,
throttled and stacked there by the hammer.

Pound geezer fenced juice loose Randy yell
tell can't yell tell can't yell tell can't yell tell
stripes.  Stripes.  Cripes!


  White Gotcha Pity

I swore I'd never buy a pair of white
shoes, particularly bucks; I refused. I
despised them without motive.  And
it's not that I feared the scuff, it was
the manner.  That manner that I abhorred—
typically god-awful, used car, and jackass.

Yes, I was adamant over the issue,
proud in my distaste.  Even as the day
came when I found a sharp looking pair
in a boulevard window.  I hated the face
I could see myself break into—I hoped
that my fury would burst the glass.  And
no, they weren't bucks but I wasted my
lunch hour and then had to fumble around
Receiving for another hour and a half
before I could walk back and admire
the polyester loafer.

They were snow white—made in Korea,
probably the industrial section of Seoul.
There was no stopping now.  I let turn
angled with glass not burning really.
Couldn't why reasoned better do buying.
Building do, do stock; smile shoehorn
set fretless teeth wild.  Bankamericard wide.

Yet the desire for opera windows has been
more difficult to manage, more an obsession.
Suburb to suburb, car lot to car lot, reading
the sticker price on late model sedans
has been a moody, unsettling ritual.



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