attempts upon

old words and new ones

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Mr Yoon Tells Me Of The Watchmaker

im smiling of course, ive heard of the watch, and how it implies a maker.

im telling Mr Yoon that that ive heard it before and hes resting his hand on my shoulder.

i havent felt a touch so human for a long time and its affecting and i think he knows

im looking at the copper pot they melt the sugar in wondering what cruel god would leave it in that state

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Should I Say Less

should i say more i want to put my most intimate humilities into your amazing molasses pan but only when you want it please only what we desire desire only what we please

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Are

communities dont actually fracture along dividing lines. what splits is in the middle - the ones who try to be the ground. it's not the ones who go to ground, who run. it's not the ones who fight. it's the ground that lets the fights go on. an arena heart. a vista to the violence. averse to all the lions

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Maukish

coughing out little feathered phrases like it might fly right with the right encouragement. bristling with bright eye and broad spread wing. jostling on the barrier by the sea. riding the gusts with the waves right up to the crashing rocks and then high shot up like a cannon buffets bouncing off the jagged edge.

bigger than the other birds, but not royal. still just as bedraggled by the spilled oil, fuel fumes, rockwork and roadwork. palladium dust shimmers on the highway in the ocean wind, all the tiny scrape and grinding off the cars.

a single feather, rolling in the currents dancing with a twirl across the catseyes. whipped in the wake of vehicles. all the rest of the feathers porcupine-spread from a carcass. hawk brown, sea white and grey. fluttering and plastered to the pavement like a flag to wave us past.

so i turn my head and wonder who that was

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emetarus

the antipsychotics let you get a clearer picture of whoevers actually hunting you

thats what flips the switch

the winds dont go away and the rains take the hillside down so slowly. thats the ground

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Excuses

I think I lost that literality in time's bonfire one must be aware of where all the cars are if you've never been hit i don't know. so sue me for writing the hits why would i need a prophylactic between me and the fuzz of stolen words. how are you ever gonna leverage your way over a culture if you're just hitting buttons on a machine thats gambling

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Rain

its honestly offensive to people who are birds how you harangue and argue it down to my bones

like, my bones they're in my body they're not meant to come out

i know you say it's heavy im so ready, im devout

it's constantly a presence in the air and in the clouds

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Tsering, Zubaida and Ada Rule The World

together in the kitchen shelling eggs even though that was always the job but there's none of the fear that slipped through the cracks we're sharing tea and hot drinks and biscuits. no one's even raised the idea of revenge. i think its because we're all being polite. Mary comes by and leaves with some quick information and this time a hot cup of something for herself too. we're wearing beautiful clothes and the eggshells are raining down them but we're eating as we go and yes grumbling, i mean we would be with our families if it weren't for this ruling business but the biscuits are fine biscuits and there's this light this way the light leaps through the windows and just smears the ceiling that just lifts everyone.

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One Voice

ah very clever now write the opposite leaving one edge unpolished to prove the work

rather than retreat to fantasy, put it to your back and face the rest.

let them try to talk you down. the thing is, rhyme is easy. the thing

is rhythms hard. turnabouts not even if the number isnt odd.

i haven't been perceiving any different voice. on an elemental

mission. on a planet. in the sun. now let the other side be true. now let the constant come on through

can we come back down together if the other one says fall. leave

some pieces here a tatter, let it be undo. let the calling

of your body come with you. let it split let it twine

every grumble every whine

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Film it and Live Forever

live forever in the image on the screen brought by wires through red earth over ravine under river dirt live forever on a single coughing server a dusty rack among an empty warehouse last remaining of its kind

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Ive Seen Gardens

"it ain't what you bring it's where you stand" -wisdom of the Cube

what i've learned is what i give a place to see things from

what i say is what ive heard repeating like a song

i love the way the old man pine drops heavy to the ground

ive seen fire getting built roots close underground

under every starry cloud small groups gather round

im telling you ive seen it from where i am its clear

this is it, its what ive found. i love the lucerne bent and sweet

i love the river's tone aloud every branch, the rain in sheets

ive seen ways through every forest. exactly where to place your feet

yet i couldn't see the garden among the wild worthy weeds

but now i see before me hunger's answer to my greed

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Preterknowledge

the shapes of things themselves make shapes. its simple if you see it simply. and its deep if you dive. i wouldn't recommend overconnection even to a friend. the bodys shape knows before the body knows. the body takes breaths before it takes blows. don't interrupt in the middle of the throes. im telling you there's options as long as it still goes.

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the whole thing unblinking (Hunted By Spacetime)

so when you see the whole thing stupid whole open wide eyed see the whole thing thing. when you see wide eyed open thinking when you do the dont blink when you see the whole thing thing. when the whole thing unblinking blinds you. when the thing thinks it thought it finds you. the thing is thinkings wide and open. so when you see the whole thing stupid wide eyed open minded blinking

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in re in response

terfs are busy out there harassing all the young selfies telling each boy he wont be pretty without tits.

at the services each woman is told her bloods unclean because she says shes not a man.

oh, the insanity, they inform me, she thinks she's not a man.

the government's here to take things away again. put a police in place and lend credence to the elimination.

they inform me that she thinks shes not a man and so her children must be taken.

they're saying it's starting to swim in schools. what if the children hear that she says shes not a man.

in the news and in some science they're saying her skirts are sickening society. when she uses the bathroom we all hear the screams. isn't it simple?

the doctors say she thinks she needs to be like this to live. and so she mustn't be allowed. she's asked to change her body and so she's told to change her mind.

the thing about the body is it changes. it changes to reject and it changes to respond

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There Is No First Choice

you are your nature. your reflex. your resting face. your second nature. your conscious and sub conscious ways. backup plan is just another term for what you might do next. do you think they give you water when you get there. will you drink when you arrive

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Sometimes Something

sometimes something screams at me to simply describe what i see with no formal artifice no twist on the hierarchy of sky and stone and home and heart. and bone and limb and day and night sometimes it fills up my view and sometimes all i think is you

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Aspects

how do you deal with art thats so obviously about whatever the artist's into?

not necessarily start with a way of integrating it into

a system that starts from the

however you deal with things quite apart from the way you deal with conflict