P a t t y N a s h —

LYCHEN

Patently

0000000000000000000000000000000Obvious like a push pin

Or lichen

0000000000000000000000000000000Beyond the lake sextuplet

And then in a grotto

0000000000000000000000000000000That tears

Up like a Luddite

0000000000000000000000000000000Who winces as she saunters

In the German salon

0000000000000000000000000000000Doing a good deed

For the state

0000000000000000000000000000000Library while her boyfriend

Is filmed walking

0000000000000000000000000000000Into the dusty foyer

But not out of it

0000000000000000000000000000000And they're both asked

When they're leaving the train

0000000000000000000000000000000With all their stuff

Mildly annoyed

0000000000000000000000000000000Then there's this tiny hole

Big enough to swim in

0000000000000000000000000000000Not like the residue

The triangular sticker left

0000000000000000000000000000000If only it would rain

And the hole would fill

0000000000000000000000000000000And then a raft

Would float

0000000000000000000000000000000Transport goods

Like brass tacks

0000000000000000000000000000000Or prune plums

Then arrive at the shore

0000000000000000000000000000000To recollect

Our taxes like a tool

0000000000000000000000000000000I pay twice

And am transferred

0000000000000000000000000000000And wait very long

To approve the transfer

CHESTNUT AVENUE

X marks the spot

 0000000000000000000000000000000Go my forearms

Like an ideogram

 0000000000000000000000000000000In a purple shirt

Who is repetitive

 0000000000000000000000000000000Like predatory snails

Who secreted

 0000000000000000000000000000000Ink by altercating

No, I'm listening

 0000000000000000000000000000000Apportioned

Multiple Tupperwares

 0000000000000000000000000000000Of us taking cues

In rectangles

 0000000000000000000000000000000Of mint foam

And papyrus

 0000000000000000000000000000000Enunciations like a tulip

Who holds its shape

 0000000000000000000000000000000Cutely

When someone says get the fuck

 0000000000000000000000000000000Out of my sight, ok

But don't, honestly

 0000000000000000000000000000000Know what it means

And so recollect

 0000000000000000000000000000000My taxes like a nod

That's free to individuals

 0000000000000000000000000000000Nestled in a bracket

Like on Sunday in the chestnut

0000000000000000000000000000000Avenue beside music

Where I had a sampler

 0000000000000000000000000000000With Lindsey

And it only occurred

 0000000000000000000000000000000To me then

So what if

 0000000000000000000000000000000He was wearing long sleeves

Then he was wearing a tank top

 0000000000000000000000000000000Or he was wearing

A thick white cloth

 0000000000000000000000000000000Glove

What it hid

 0000000000000000000000000000000Nobody knows

REVOLUTION

I feel dizzy

 0000000000000000000000000000000Imbuing my good

With argument

 0000000000000000000000000000000So that it becomes a cabinet

In which to fold cloth

 0000000000000000000000000000000Contentious and

Inventing things

 0000000000000000000000000000000But doesn't it tut

Value-neutrally

 0000000000000000000000000000000Proceeding

To sip water

 0000000000000000000000000000000And thence continuing its activity

Sheer coincidence

 0000000000000000000000000000000Like a child scooping sand

Inside his tee

 0000000000000000000000000000000Not realizing it is precious

However acutely he is

 0000000000000000000000000000000As breakfast was cookies with stars

That submerge in warm milk

 0000000000000000000000000000000You undunk like a ligament

Between one thing

 0000000000000000000000000000000And another

Like killing hour on Saturdays

 0000000000000000000000000000000And bleeding at McDonald's

Until speaking in the dimly-lit

 0000000000000000000000000000000Kitchen with an ulterior

Steam function

 0000000000000000000000000000000Or at the festival in which the combustion

Engine never happened

 0000000000000000000000000000000But a man nods at us convivially

He’s strolling with his compatriot

 0000000000000000000000000000000And I enjoy processed almonds

Rapid inflation

 0000000000000000000000000000000Tasked local alchemists

To figure out porcelain

 0000000000000000000000000000000It wasn't the same

As what they had purchased

 0000000000000000000000000000000You can pull it from the fire

Plunge it into a vat of ice

 0000000000000000000000000000000Mark it with your two swords

With blue ink

 0000000000000000000000000000000Trust me

Just watch

 0000000000000000000000000000000Nothing will happen

TORGAU

Onward and upward

 0000000000000000000000000000000The Renaissance-era stair

Wound around a newel

 0000000000000000000000000000000Insinuating like a pendulum

On impassive sandstone where

 0000000000000000000000000000000United States and Soviet forces

Said their hellos

 0000000000000000000000000000000Mere yards from brown bears

Who slept in the waterless depression

0000000000000000000000000000000Through which an attacker might

Scramble like an avatar

 0000000000000000000000000000000I dressed in loins

Belly-up in the bedroom

 0000000000000000000000000000000Belly-down for the lumbar

Twinge which luckily

 0000000000000000000000000000000Does have its killers

Thanks to my padded shorts

 0000000000000000000000000000000Everywhere I sit's a seat

I'm at the center of the world

 0000000000000000000000000000000Which responds to my sensitivities

Even the potential ones

 0000000000000000000000000000000Which I carry like labor

Which I worry like a gossip

 0000000000000000000000000000000Which I tear like a scab

Which I tender for under

 000000000000000000000000000000030 EUR/hour

Tracy and I plotted it

 0000000000000000000000000000000Extending my palm like the antipode

In his improbable garb

 0000000000000000000000000000000Five ghostly children

Castigate the epitaph

 0000000000000000000000000000000Who is their father

And one known monk behind them

 0000000000000000000000000000000Doing things properly by the well

Which reminds me:

 0000000000000000000000000000000Do you know Katharina

Or any of her children

 0000000000000000000000000000000I don't but send her my best

Regards and bet she cast her eyes

 0000000000000000000000000000000Down at the brown bears

As they were dormant

 0000000000000000000000000000000Like a mother and her wet nurse

Before the terrible accident

 0000000000000000000000000000000Which is one and the same

I advise you to look up

 0000000000000000000000000000000Fall back asleep if you need it

If it takes three months of this,

 0000000000000000000000000000000So be it

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