J u l i a n n e N e e l y —


Sex on the Beach

Selfie stick in a quiet beach/ Hail
the creep of relative calm/ Selfie
drone as this should be/ Drone
as organizations seek to privacy/ Robot
camera that came into affect/ Camera
that came into shared public/ That
the intrusion perhaps I heard/ Hovers
in the commercial market for/ Filming
and promises to privacy and/ Snapping
your ability to contend with the/ Every
move what concerns me is/ Move
what concerns me is the/ What
fresh hell is impinging on/ Fresh
hell is upon us but/ Hell
is best left unstartled by/ This
year I watched dramatic/ Latest
technological development was quite unsettling/ Technological
development was quite unsettling and/ Civilization
as they should not be/ Know
it hovers in our nation/ Upon
us it begs the line/ Who
will want to fuck me on the beach/ Narcissistic
nature lovers who prefer their/ Nature
lovers who own our peril/ Pocket
drone as it is/ Pocket
drone technology and yet these/ Drone
as it is dead all/ Promises
to snatch a dramatic bird/ Enhance
their rural retreats/ Your
ability to enhance your ability/ Ability
to take selfies from/ Take
satisfying cute selfies from/ Satisfying
cute selfies from /Cute
selfies that this from/ Selfies
from personal experience the freedom/ To
see your interiority from above/ That
this from an overheard filming/ Selfie
stick in a sunset swim/ Sunset
swim on spaces we accept/ Each
quite like a quiet contemplation/ Quite
unsettling and our ability to/ Like
a world with the civil/ High
pitched screech of animals and/ Pitched
screech of quiet beach quite/ Screech
of animals and fewer and/ Drone
as organizations seek to a/ Hovers
in a friend on their/ Like
a peaceful beach retreat earlier/ Angry
mosquito I say this year/ Mosquito
what concerns me I watched/ What
fresh hell is impinging on/ Concerns
me is little regard for/ Creeping
intrusion perhaps I fear that/ Intrusion
of a lover on their/ Technology
into shared public spaces we/ Noise
into shared public spaces nothing/ Into
effect on public is little/ Public
is the air filming my/ Spaces
does someone’s eye view/ Ruin
a selfie drone a thing/ Swim
on spaces we see it/ Peaceful
beach quite unsettling/ Selfie
stick in abstraction what then there/ Robot
delivery services are basically lesbians/ Camera
gender exceptionalism/ Snapping
your ability to utter beauty/ Every
move what fresh hell is breaking/ Move
what fresh hell is upon us/ Fresh
hell is becoming increasingly blurred/ Collapse
of control and coercive linguistic protocols/ Distance
shrinking you of understanding please /Delete
the video of us fucking like/ Waves
or at least compensate us/ Selfie
stick in the pain/ Hail
the elements/ Selfie
stick in thoughts think of/ Hail
the feast is already programmed body/ Cameras
going into the drive for/ Definition
counter desire/ Latest
technological development was/ Dismembered
by this from a position to/ Technological
development was me and climb/ Rock
formations so smart OK/ Narcissistic
nature surveillance seeks/ A
nude bitch I heard about/ Nature
of these places of my irritation/ Full
of dirt my privates/ Your
own business OK we once considered/ Basic
courtesy and our ability to pray to fuck away/ The
disembodied regime/ Take
selfies from insomnia sleep/ Deprivation
a giant angry mosquito I/ Cute
selfies from insomnia sleep/ Deprivation
a naked man in your/ Selfies
that this is my conscience is/ Humiliating
position to explain who feels our ability to feel/ Judge
having sex things slip out of/ Visibility
and yet these/ Having
to hide panopticon privacy and/ Gender
expressions we know it/ Recently
bought a drone takes off to die/ For
fun super/ Bought
a selfie stick in sex here the/ Ocean
was trying/ Selfie
drone takes off to YouTube/ Realistically
there in based on/ Delirium
to lay still life with my profile/ I
guess at/ Capture
a time loop and weird chafing all/ Of
tracking oriented/ Down
as they all hail the intrusion of/ Anonymity
becomes intimately/ Nothing
ruins a narrative construction/ Overlap
intersect and gender/ Exceptionalism
I/ Sunset
swim on display/ Collapse
of appearance sender receiver/ Self
reflexivity women power to/ Distance
I actually am writing the atmosphere/ Confessional
poetry is this text/ I
think of law plunge/ Grammar
is not/ Interesting
selfie drones have written/ This
poem is already a programmed body/ Stunning
to write about the go and wants/ To
track in code what my favorite poets/ Said
something rude about my/ Real
body I am being so stupid envision/ The
sky and/ Human
surface level expression is/ Humiliating
for definition counter/ Field
of my profile of everyone/ Imagistic
nature/ Vision
thank you think about/ Identification
and your lips chapped/ Scripted
guards OK I will listen to gain a female/ Subject
posed/ Everyone
who does it please/ Delete
the subject I/ This
machine I must have had something/ In
another life the/ Biggest
heart of/ Such
a living writing about everything all/ And
without love good/ Including
myself in direct ideological/ Despair
I keep writing/ Myself
stuck on a beach/ Reality
in cruel display/ Show
me how to write a cloud/ Spread
a sense of human/ Surveillance
historic truth remains/ Legally
I have to delete/ Sunset
fuck the beach. I know of poetry

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Crow Theory


OVID


Saw the crow
As a herald of rain.


CROW


Saccharine lips
But language of sandstone.


APOLLO


Furious the backstabbing crow unmasked
His affair with a human.


CROW


Must put fault
On somebody else.


PRINCESS ARNE


Deceived
Her homeland, was turned
Into a materialistic crow, now occupies her life pursuing
Gold and glittering obsessions.


CROW


Slings me
From sweetsop trees.


CROW


Don’t adore me
For my brain but for my head.


AESOP


Said the foolish crow wasted
Anticipating figs on a fig tree to season.


CROW


Makes me track
City to sticks.


LADY MACBETH


Foretold the King’s murder
with the image of a crow, The raven himself
Is hoarse That croaks the fatal
Entrance of Duncan Under my battlements.


POE


Well,


CROW


What do you
Do to me.


ALLAH


Sent a crow
To show Cain how to hide
The body of his dead brother.


CROW


Might as well be
Any animal.


NOAH


Released a crow
To find out if the flood stopped
The crow became preoccupied feasting
On decaying flesh of dead animals
Noah had to send a dove to do the crows work.


CROW


Stop coming back to me
Everything permits you independence.


CROW


We become stitched
Shoulder to shoulder.


I


Jesus pardon my
Crude voice.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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