Ballin'

I wrote these all in the F train from Manhattan to Brooklyn on 6/11/2007, I was pretty upset but I like how they turned out. Except the first one actually, i wrote that in some church near grace church but that isn't it.

000-000-0000

Silverdress churchpoem
sunglass blue koan
look at the dead saints
I like them because they’re static
but elbaorate, so pretty
text message cathedral!
Anachronism’s pen
self importance napping
in the pews
I won’t take them off
it can’t be checked
straws & eagle brains
train-quake shaking catacombs
how many dead people are there?
Look at him
his watercolour wash
embroidered bug
to the gloury of God
and in loving memory
Marie Hodges Bald
1924-1986
the shimmer on me is wearing off.

Madame Tossedsalad

Spectacle spectacle
daisy chain women
depression unfolding
oligarchy broccoli, spin
till you’re whipped and
fly free over mekons
rainbow gumdrops neon
cherry acid. Ray Richie
Rishy Ruma
Rumour
brat pack pick ice pick
eskimo sealgirl cobalt
aqua world how will I
tell it when you’re gone?

Z. Web

My brain buzzing all the
time so many words
they quest for rhymes over
and over intuition prohibits it exhibits
a brain writing about its “I”
monologuing in a cramped
dark glitter-free shed in the rain
and lightning crashes all around
you but you’re cool
and avoidant
this nightstalk cliché is
safe from documentation your upper
arms glisten & your crown
is the moon.

Caribou Nerve Net

Werewolves pine zone
ignominy bite-marking
everywhere all your pencils you love
to spit and twist
growlybark tail-chase
be still my heart
with a golden magic silver
bullet twinkle sky
wound seeping red blood
carnelian neck-ruff
howl-eyes moaning
in the crawl.

VIP

POV point of vance earl
bagger-baldy circumcized
strap-on in my bag
rainbow hidden toad
glisten pencils forest
fish toad pond crane
myth crab sparkle
bamboo?

Chanel No. 5

Drippyhead canary yellow
first cross scrawl
illegal ledge heart
falling and twist trapped
gravity g force limbo
tarmac down there
yellow lines parrot
fly order order perfect
always eyeliner order smile.

le.m.n.o.p.portunity

Hell city dolce sweet
time bomb tick clock
racing lucidarian F
garble ugh click talk
no spanish intelligence
indian europe tapestry
degree cash cow
krsňa club clap hands
writing mess odd
realtime feature
flick the loss of my
marbles put it back in the bag hope
dick cunt smiles at us
fame and fortune
queens & dreams
HIV killed me I
sleep on my left-
hand crayon box.