1

Empty mailboxes

exotic street signs

and lumber landscapes

beat off to barking dogs.



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2

They're beating

on the Moog

so hard that

this brain's

begun to syntesize.



***



3

Kimonos costume

ice-figure men

chainsawed into being

fireworks in seadragons

dance across the sky.

A Japanese snow festival.



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4

This romantic notion

is eating lomein

with chopsticks

from the box.



***



5

Broken umbrellas

parachuting

an overlong walk

to the car.



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6

She smells like

her skin is

walking without bones.



***



7

My phonebook friends

are picking fights

with the ones cyber.



***



8

Decode these words for

structures erect

of monument vernacular

any syllabic regularities.



***



9

Your highschool passage

a coming of age in a

most platonic ethic way.



***



10

Conversation topics

ensnare cherry blossom

symbol ideaology

and pretentious coffee orders.



***



11

Navigating backroads with a

broken compass reading

Spanish-tongue directions

off the grid and on the map.

Is Jennie's new apartment.



***



12

Standing outside with a latte,

realized that I was in

tornado without the company

of Bill Paxton and a leater belt.



***



13

Continued pixel fascinations.

If not one boy, then another.



***



14

Nocturnal lovebites

against the glow of

electric lightning

from the south that

window-dresses the sky

in bright blue fog drapes

and are quick to disappear.



***



15

I wonder if I've

ever seen a mockingbird

everyday hopping

on the mulch, in pint-sized

winged browning

that aren't so much

for talking but

for making fun of me.



***



16

Long stems.

He is all long stems

and extended tree trunk,

falling off his chair

when the slightest

crush in swooning

to her moxie breeze.



***



17

Pirates in one-eye patches

looting car steroes

when the squall storm hits

because everyone is buy

watching noon news on TV.



***



18

The thickness makes impenetrable

horizons past the shoreline

where the buildings overlapping

rise with rectangular severity

now blurred like smokestacks.



***



19

A plot laid out like Ed Wood

singing a cheery lovesong,

Gene Kelly painting a

soliloquy. This is what

our watching a zombie

movie would be.



***



20

Under hoodie undercover

in espionage sunglasses

for the dimness of the light.

They hide behind the bushes

so the rain won't see them

and they could covert jogging

to the car.



***



21

Reiterate the sentiment

with multiple syllables,

please, so I know that

we are talking.



***



22

Phased by the gloriousness

of your ineffect to leave.



***



23

Geometrically speaking, our

match is painted golden ratios

and origin in question.



***



24

I is eavesdropping, wholly

disinterested in the

nothing that she's enraptured.

Stories of waiting and

starting stalled-our cars.

Two shots and 911s.



***



25

We haven't been carnal

for the sake of

watching TV.



***



26

Thoughts collect in

puddles on the

curb of where the

hedge and sidewalk

meet to become infested.



***



27

Peas in pods

under my

mattress bed

keep me

dreaming that

I remember

in the morningtime.



***



28

The concept of Christianity:

a dead pappy moved a shooting

gun, physics in relative of

speaking, ghosts of Jesus spark

reaffirming interest in his life.



***



29

Bus lines, bees detectives

secretion of the Queen

who lives at the Metro station.



***



30

The reportage gets all

his numbers jumbled up

and misspells all the naming.

12/10/2006

Posted on 12/10/2006
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