plumber in spain on a fulbright
his name is nick homeworthy
he came quietly
should i write a fiction
did u sniff the client
the diet sodas did him in
we’ve perfected the sniff & the slurp
the opposite of girlboss is boy employee
or, as ashbery put it, boy assistant
which i suppose is marginally better
they’ll find some other cudgel
or invent one
the ’tism, the stigmata
strongman, numb to it
goldfish passing gas, black clumps of caviar
was it pills or liver piled atop the amish market
i’ve redlined my hart from these boulevards
cheap massages in shenzhen
condo to stash the mistress
there’s no sleeping in the sty
who said anything abt an old crone
just like u to tell the truth
i wonder wut that could be abt
much haste, or it’ll go unreported
strand is anti-worker, said the aristocrat
in the third act
we knock together like chips ahoy!
get off while our clothes r drying
the friendliest azores
how far u’ve come
run hot
by walking
medusa don’t u come around
testing the chili w/ two bare feet
consult a mirror
live to regret it

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

YOU'RE LIVING ALL OVER ME

in the city u rarely see pigeons dying of natural causes
it’s fascinating where animals go to die
they w/ their keen sense of honing
say goodbye to chafing
he’ll be remembered for once taking an epic holiday
& being felt up under his ribs
horseface sticking out over a gate
his scowling snail teeth
the hardest biological material
biting down on flaky wife cakes
chewy wintermelon filling
a natural womyn shipped canada post
maybe things would be better
if i woke & saw u
dressing gud & looking hot
imagine if the aliens came
& u were the first person they met
making contact w/ a mortal like u
thinking every human looked the same
tall as sequoia or redwood
hair color changing w/ the light
it’d be like if babe ruth were the first ballplayer
or jackson pollock the only septuagenarian
they’d ever met
don’t u think it would blow their minds
every creature on the planet
tasting like chicken
warily eyeing the invalids at the table
u try different voices
choirboy scream i wanna know where i came from !!!
r u wut they call an earth angel
creeley didn’t seem to understand that “ sd ” is sugar daddy
the probe was not painful
when we made love
roving over the expanse of ur cadaver-body
like roomba or space cruiser
[depending on budget]
pouring myself into u
prodigiously wet
an intense feeling like breaching a hideaway
notice how windy it gets down by the park
now i know this man never worked a day in his life

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RES JUDICATA

the thinker who claimed it was easy to be avant-garde
but hard to tell a simple story
was not smart enough to escape the lightning strike
or avoid the burning bush
we know he died in 1640
but when was he born
a loser
backbencher w. no charisma
best known as a visitor i fiddled w.
muttering incessantly abt leopard sharks
& other made-up creatures
when we broke up
ur dentist called indelicately
to say u missed ur appt
i combined my favorite activities
licking stars & sleeping thru it
all politics being local
ignoring my bruised foot
a fearful future
its semantics
splitting hairs for this high
pack of boys known as an allegation
substantiated like walking into woods
drunk but not disorderly
emerging w. phlox
& newfound knowledge
handpicked for u
a ramekin of warm nuts
followed by silence
will this pain ever stop

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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