the relative minor by deanna ferguson

/ubu editions2002

The Relative MinorDeanna Ferguson

First published by Tsunami Editions, 1993©1993 Deanna Ferguson©2002 /ubu editions

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THE RELATIVE MINORDEANNA FERGUSON

Contents

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Crisis In My America 7Lick Fiction 10Cut Opinions 11Spotless Earth 12Wanke Cascade 13Model for Matter 20Brooch With Some Stones Missing 22Feed Dog 23Poetica 25Received Standard 26Cross 29Scientific Management 30Notes for Link Fantasy 32Holy [Holy] 35Taking Theory Home 37

untitled 41Sidewinder 42I Guide 45Swoop Contract 46Skip Town 49untitled 54

Suasion 1727 58Instruct Obstruct 65Cross Words 67First Faked Chapter 75iCS Fihing Hol 77Perth Bless 78Suasion 1965 79ad ream 82

. . . . . . . . so the offspring, a mixture of ill-luck and shock neither pre-law nor striped, documentary, dumb-in-the-mouthe.Homebound chrysanthemum prone tight nor flambé said, well, the caution is not reaching the reader or the version is working right. Now we must confess to diminish. We walk there.Toward the doormat shame a bolt disposed. Every treacheryreturned us answer saying we are the servants and built that house that was builded these many years ago which a trick builded and set up. In fact, disqualified later on.Worker who put forward is still armed. Called so certain equilibrium. Give it a rest or get yourself a college boy. Set our hearts on getting. Forget it.Thrusting poopy noses into an angle. Insulate. Underestimated. Yes I and I prefer it. Articulate. Slaughter was articulated. You can drill down through the layers but what’s more important.Over the cliff, up-river, into the great basin, as far as the village back to the sea Canada give-way. So it befell the inspired categorymilitary slavers prefer to call innocent jokes. Origin whose nationdiffer from conceptual neighbour. Untouched by Parliament writ to sensational policy, stuck up, you name it. Empty made a loudsound. Pose as a rupcha. Lights bright but no direct sun. Above the mountain’s head a freshening luster mellow where the state rots in open air and sheds sweet mustard yellow.Sequence as Scale. Balance, these weary soldiers wound down anddid. Unopposed to error. It died much to free us. Give the chauffeur the same instructions. You could do far worse. Hide and seek from the vulgar your it. If heaven pleases indulgence to all that passes dripped down among all the peopleswhat was popular several seasons back. Take mercy of this Shinola lacking fitness to rule, an un-wiped ass of a paragraph.“What is a ruin but Time easing itself of endurance” Sleepless. Unless discharged like a musket. Sexually semi-sweet inthe distill of imagination of men. Lettuce lead back to the truth. Whose portrait adorns truck. Yearning holes forbutton, swelling displacements or is it a limp and dangling body of Christ who can see your house from there. Picking minutes totwenty through leaf and smoking life. Loose meat to anti-stacked choice, absolutely heat and light to all . . . . . . .

The Relative Minor Deanna Ferguson

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Crisis In My America

Alien Backs BushConstitutional Talks

Sometimes WeDeadwood Dick

before We speakthrowing up honey

Around sinksand in damp cellars and

in mineswhere it may transportin form of thralldom

’parently a double thingrevolving around its selves

invisible and nakedfor the looking

Probably horizontal drewsettlers around it. The Bluff.

Bucket scooped into the chutehopper barged along moorside

Suck built up alow lying ground. Heaven Will Protect

the Working Girl

A fat big namefor just so. Practically

alone. Smiled and sankoff the lectern throwing anair of mystery into the brewery

Joe Blow died fightingspaces between wholly occupiedand the slender poem


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The relics brought way back by the bunnyBiographical usage omits some here

at times indicated by often smallrelics insignia traffics attention

to time in writingin arbitrary shortening of time

in flavour reformationof his younger brother

captured in bohemiainsurrecting against language infection

they occur common like a boil

He was unsuccessfully arguedI swerve the swamp of misfortune

He continued formally a daughterone of the “blue stockings”

This less familiar adsorption is molecular hexingthis scan cannot be cancelled

as for Bing’s toupeedispersing drops of jellycontracting into globules animated by

fetish power I now desirethe dry wet spotthe postcardcum punctum

and a framework of strong iron bars

Chosen to fill the firstgraving sex campaign

still unfinished, so later, systems ofstupefaction open between prospects of

reflection and fair anchorage. Alonemore now

wrangling baffle, rustyas the old revolt

Ordered to dissolve, refused


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This spotted earth’s complete reactionmineral come extinct and instinct

enough, titles becomeamphibia and genitalia

Campaigning into the life cycleall the girlsin the office read Shklovsky

Yo reader throbbestthe same as I

Press over for a side lungeand hold

be bit map be tie-dyebeen painted stalagmite the chant

rode hardput away wet

Ladies in Daytonselegant extracts in verse

a port for any stormwhat little fuck

evokes a landscape

That’s right now yank up my vest andpull my shirt tail


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Lick Fiction

chemistry pioneered the lured callof lavish not slavishsmoothing out the appearance of lines fromthe moment optical diffusesfocus features an invisible jewel, bringing to secretits remove from a cellophane-threaded stainnothing so soft was ever so excitingsuddenly the whole world is morethan symbols of an uncommon nature, a wayof transformation into precious contemporaryfour minutes in the nude, a lot of lashesin expressive interpretations because longer isno longer an advanceand a collection animated with vibrant inspiredby a legendexclusive absolute, gently remindsan eye twitch is no more, or lessor lying hidden, than the twitching of an eye


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Cut Opinions

cut opinions tear tastefulhungers huge ground swellpartisan have-not thought

green opinions hidden slidehub from sprung in

weather yahbold erect tenderperfect term transparent till

I two minute topless formedA necessarily sorry sloppy strandshot opinions oh like an apple

a lie, a liar kick backfilial oh well hybrid opinions happennot stopped


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Spotless Earth

spotless earth resigned by hearse and strokevehemence equalled, in history, in nursling oakacts as could be not, grammar actssemidetached or vend ed, morality mopesto act without grammar’s natural nylona saying means to an end confabulatesmeaning to, by transitive cliché, practicing randomherb what ever necessary, is a reasonwinged and irresistible, your moral you havebelieved is possession and tombed beneathstands for what growth, letting gomoulding professor, sheets of flat thoughta tongue groove deed to all the four cornersof ideology speaking, through what lop-eared spiritblank plaid, latitude without longitudehistory’s brim by currency’s bridesin’s vicinity less one, negative selffallen off an idea plus puncture, is a globe


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Wanke Cascade

then the Q accompanied traditional headdressstalking, sister and attacktraining of humiliationgets away perchedon the dog’s nose.father was off, sent some notes though“go back and kill moose”he writ me, I didn’t writ him.snide hose slid under her seat quiet-likepublic made the ebb, and she rose, hydrantor tyrant Ascension.

she, is too, loud on the table, inflour bag pants because our old timereligion is stogged to it’s cakey waist inback water, faced, fermented, that’s how welike it here, native to this and inrelative value to what’s else.and after, remaining as a taste wouldremembering Doppler.so butane, mama, and everything.

she snuck out in a top too smallI where the finding is close by.how far does it take to get awaywith a local yokelpassive qualities passed down andbefore you know itattribute.like curtain a or curtain b or the box, children beinglayers of internal tissue shed awayare not replaced with torrents of decay, cakes, layers.laughing hard as a kinship, yes, ticket


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not grooming nor grace nor blooming.punctual bumps and an inarticulate sprout.instead of sentimentalized, obligate me.she has her own way, with us, and a private way with himthat must be.except for the birthing adamant that wehave nothing in common, sadly so, but what should be.not like him and his, phony, phony.so stem some other kids were scaredsensing an enatic fragile.until nothing remains contradictoryuntil all parts disconnect, hinge, continue

evolutionary debt drags the jaw backtectonics push cranial flaps forwardhe can hardly put up with her aging, par, yappingbut an oligogene is a genedetermining qualitative hereditary traits.now he starts, “do you remember when”this embellishment was no morethan a banal instance of cooking or living in a house.oblivion hones selective recollection.and loops of narrative happen in soap opera too.

after several years’ absence he arriveswhile the video camera is on.wearing a men’s suit is high resolution in one placeand not at all in another.difficult to spot among similarityof uniform, and the white haired woman showingno recognition, a quick waveleaves signing windaddressed to no one, in particularand she’s the one who sends smoke through the mail?

archetypical digging corner stones of a housewhat’s that goddamn racket?not precious gems but rocks in colour


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primordial urges of gouge or liberate sonothing in sense of value, lucre accumulate, possessionbeautiful junk chucked.reason seems merely in mimicry, becoming somethingother is an involve, some fun.years later and with no certainty of thisthe question is refrainedto appear less addled.on his piggied back I see them return.the picture is flat, opaque, perspectivally behind me thenin front of me now.they crossed the line and crossed back againthieving out some time known as quality, private.and not until here, up on this cousin/vehicle/panopticonI musethey left me, they just left me, they just, left me.

in using the telephone, she says, I really gave so-and-soa good reaming, reprimand city.soon enough, circularities of story, intimacies shared.bullshit made apparent, butwhat is constructed in this worldhas at least a shelf-life.who wouldn’t, avoid the lashavoid the phone.even with knowledge said “more true”sneaking suspicionfabrication remains intactuntil intersection of fictive and factive evict fads that axethe imagined houses the real.

until all events speak for themselvesuntil representations know what it feels likepositioning in the order is locateduntil orders of knowing suss upuntil strata is axed as metaphoruntil economic isn’t always the organizerfear, baby.


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enoughon a long curled wood going fast, downremember call it a yacht, a yacht.raking pasts strip minedto describe model sentimentalityknowing it’s not, it’s not.the front is an undesirable positionassumed, sometimes acceded and so oncutting snow with facenaturally like we didn’t vote on it.

in the dreamy lassitude ofwith guilt long gonewith replenished gut and fluid I museI has never left a neighbourhoodcross the tracks’ syntaxon common usageobliging an imaginingin that thismakes sense oran odd invitationto a speechuntil.

she is rolled and smoking(rag ends) pinning up herlegs consequently varicosein fierce declaration“leave me alone”as a monument on a kitchen chaira fortification still waitingwhile elsewhere, battles ragingbroken moments of morningbrought to you by John Player.

roll in revolution, breedoedipal low desire, coomemory dull word, slur


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cartoon pain, communitykept us thique“and that high class gibberish has always sounded like love”approximately, handsome, cowboySemitic or Italian, we visitedthe museum of neutral historythat one could suck youthrough its teeth but mightprefer you in one biteand that’s the problem with the middle classalways speeding out of your lifewith a wicked pack of cards, soelegant, so intelligent ...

. . . the afterword was so calmyour heart would of respondedloyally, at least, beatingobedient to loved baboonsto you and yourssooner, headdress outflanks the Qabsolutes devoted to plumebut up against yet not sheeragainst, abut, old joins conspiracyyoung remaindered foolish bigidea, top heavy with newly acquiredrutting against a tree marked solid, soldbecause of or for that reason cuttingany sort of currencybucking up the wrong tree a funny doingseems, outside my yard, given thatgiven white lace curtains well that’s gone too farhopes placed upon what proves most fatalfresh, crisp mortifications

to mountains laughing out loudthe sea weeps comedythat’s a joke deer, out ofthe bush and never again


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for two bucks, untila fabric of offers, places, paymentsnegotiate this garmentoff my headI finger the waitused night proposed to grid

the facial bruise proved disgraceful skintaste blue for an inch, a lame patch, insidea rankled mob of stray hatevoice does not carry fear willnot carry smell enough to break a circuit ofthe saviour, just over there runningaround the track and around the tracka little feeble ran all the way home

cowboy on the mop boarda scratch distractionfrom the floor patternrepeat to pinpointwe could hardly stop laughingat her aging, har, yapping

what moves you, isa fish on the line or the booze that?rhetoric is one twitcheehand snapping see,gums of black stumps, stubsof one hand, virtueof living rightup ’til dead laterlittle winkee not wankeeit is o notwriting right on top my lifecreeping out, youpush up the daisies


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whirring soar heard wonder will itpass appended?sea gull does, and that’s beautynon knowingpretending all the precedingdefied gravity never, plane hahproper name through a processflags mysterious “teargas”and l am whacked happy with possibilityas recipient and prior of mind


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Model for Matter

And leaves as if the backhoe deserves itSeveral winds face a way turns

learned is more than again rememberlay down two wide

Time more than before than afterIt is time now, it’s time again

three eleven eleventh street elevenslighted distance acrossfrom the tracks

Near some lagoon a measureFew paraded backward lines

pour side a townquilted page covers whatcopper pipes elbow whitesplastic sheets as if languagewere unions outside oflanguage

Miserrors, upright, rotI want to know paper pends

pens malfunctionCab truck blue protects health of the nation

whence collect behaviortighten method

Complicit, gear shift, quick, outElse adjusted light

words house sleep eat activitiesWaiting of settlement

of familiar skidUnusual times slippage names

gesture force mooduntil three days over bloatrelieve heavy seine


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Repose or clothes hanging on hangersTime note repetition pass as habits

slapstickle the under ego

Thickness of idea into anotherslur flesh discussed

Discover reflex assemblageGear in a new ritualRemove input shaft until bearings move

inside stealing home a mustOut with an ideaAdjusting height, line lengthen

leg stretch quick beforetake someone for example

Went up to the big streetto witness litter

a find just whenunnecessary opens

Frightening diminishseemingly with the worst intentions

sentence lapse incaseLaughed alonePark and what pulls up

licence I done youlate in the night

Traverse region in a big tenWelcome to a new colony

no protestyet dreamt

A clenching hand on two throatsLittle single redSplit up equallyI am asking

more for cleaveNothing is differentNo insult, attentionAttention is one hard lineAnd for the duration


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Brooch With Some Stones Missing

All never wash are cattleplay, apron up bogey kill brain

all guile on sea till tearsfoul, old fur stones, shack earnt tea

Ian kelp ma truce pearsuade, gorge a we kacky bay

Wish and Rank gone their differsas I wrote say held no

kippers, eye, cousin held a hoof in

Goose for good in sensemay, little knave sheeply

good fur goose an isletoss a jigger, fling no trues her


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Feed Dog

Stink to corner, panic brakesimultaneous Regain calm of inertia i.e. to followCuckoo in clock, intrepid head dartout of window As tongue in face werefrain from living out of doors.

trains draw Repelsimulacrum, a remember equationHegel, the chamber pot in a chair.

FEED DOG

Dear D.Koocanusa big boat wet frozeand damn near blown into the u.s. of a.Nothing With mom Broiled Boasted oneThink you bedder come back.

Along the whole way voice whinesDon’t turn that knob or we’ll blowThis is my drifting Cybergs of in mindand out That voice, screen, shiftour coexistence The in & out of it.

You are tight nerves also.Bounced a nickel off your cheek.Painfully disposed syllables neverrelevant, neutral All powerto them I ridethe tutelage train.

He bombed He. Decision“Let us not cross the line.”


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Instead, wind socks of piningin hard gales serveinsufficient likening. Fever.That we could all be cowboys or at leastcountry tunes.I am all I’ve heard.

Deep dish tongueblissed subtext, anglerstake a certain responsibilityKeep what you catch. Fever.

Touch. Clandestine comma insertion insideA door frame, somewhere lights onI am not home. Illegal.Stranded in rut, groove thang, butit burns blue.

Desire for fresh continuallyre-creatable Speak into thisPetri dish spokenisolate petrified, homogenize, anothervote for allegory.

Up from sloth Galmakes good President elect forshift, paycheck, collectiveSpeak in corpses Accelerating nowfaster than stink, mute abilityand Mute.


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Poetica, That Doth Reign and Live Within My Thought

Vertigo lined up lingual, meant ground axed rival. I crawl intothe discarded fridge and close the door. End of to end all, the longinstruction ignoble bloody and butterscotch. Another couldhoodcussed per suasion. If the Fiberglas fits . . . cavalier, galoot.

Mother father sis years clucking “extreme situations”. What abeautiful smell, net content like. Pregnancy less pre-disturbed.Drinking process my calm downed. Strapped on her own my. Centerthey want. Didn’t want me. Operatic snot. Done being sexy.

Little postcard, dry wet spot, cum punctum.Victimage sacred amorous whose vehicle is rh e t o r i c a l .

Theoretically my long weak knees, oh current hymen. Jug jug. Thoseare the pee-holes that were his eyes. These words tumble out, sud-denly, in parenthesis, a voice from someone else, those are the pee-holes that were his eyes. She do the men in different voices.

Pediment left in receding perfume. Bum’s rush to meet skin,formal alluvial thought coursing through. Pen’s insulin by anInsolent hand. Spleen through a screen’s fan hit. Memory’s seinelathered and draggered. Kept close to the breast as if with its ownsweet breath.

Is that your crew? No my cargo. Stupid by smothered by.Culture indeed. Its own perverse throng. If bodies ricochet, may leastto name or bray. I Kant In My Pants With A Glove On.

Something’s seething in the kitchen. Ritual reflex disgorgeinjecta switched. Forget it, you can’t be my cowboy. Straddle this sad-dle or hobble for dances. Speaking beings. Speaking being.


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Received Standard

From the imagined predilectionOf uniformly grammaticalSee us haif-assed eruditeEr’ zäts’ ru-stis-tic

Logical as Spock writing on party line

At the lift of his hem hit behaveunveiled empirical real

Synchronic cut acrossdistinctions decided and otherMarks of sophistication

By excess of west away wealthand excess of straight gaugeeducation. You serve everything in tin cups?

Solemn history aggregate as a tumourif a body, as a fart, if a negative spaceHow distinct these are from each other dependsevent ends and not only on a structure

Heteroglossia of common evidencedby a sandwich of many ingredientsIn a small loaf of bread is a poor boyin New Orleans a submarine in BostonA hoagy in Philadelphia a hero in New Yorkand a grinder poor pork north of the border

Is a challenge or an immunity to the anxiety ofevery urge word world read for surface anddepth set in proportion isInstant nightly news a milk bone or a cuddlebone over no


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Here a fish hangs in the netlike an intellect in context between a newworld and a multiple beside inclusive andlagoon daunting not speculationBit a rigged game. Fate operate understood

As a constructed domain of truth drewrheumatic just dance just back cabin calflift out into its own consequence audienceyou ornament. What still rostrum denial

Warm before building of the CPRAnd permanent settlement so regionaldistinctions are least sharp article cattle

Then the social ones. That admire some modelsas cultivated from acquired standardlinguistic index of talk’s sure learning and general cultureincome flood serious with a fringe on top

Grampa died first then grammar. Alternatelyavoiding and gravitating toward

Wot a dump what’s that from wot a dumpSubmerged activity while ideological’sunremitting passivity there’s naw-thing lak i-de-all-it’s a del-i-cacy for-thegall. Lizard for three hundred. Won’tjockey for token slot only for usea product only exchange a commodityor produce subject for jerk. What isbecause of their eyes

Ends with the advent of its own. If he wasalways bringing Debbie her pills how didthey get back to the kitchen after? Hookedby a particular puffed up vernacularcertified signal thing with a natural lookWritten according to its own gallop conby far her favorite themes were those


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that illustrated poverty, its typesand its customs. 1941 deferred eugenicsto Plato in the sense that Pound developedpervading stress on the concrete. Nosuperfluous word or weeding out manyfactors make the problem difficultfrom a practical standpoint. I know two guysshe cut out completely

We acknowledgethe absolute rightto make a careful examinationOf all those elementsof world art inheritedand to affirm the truismthat the new artCan be built onlyon the foundations of all our acquisitionsFrom the past

Lady Godivawas a freedom rider she wasa sister, convincing, collective. Throughtubes. Choosing to leave Minneapolis the bigapple swell clerical and oh Mister Grantquit teasing. Contaminant-free yet fishpolitic the received standard everyone herelooking at those sheep getting horny orScottish blood. Attaining refinementread herence bordering on epicureancrack wise synthesis becauseintrinsic units disco compostsushi font differ

One must immediately and directly leadso on and so farJust upon one timein friendly marketI’ll miss you most of all


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Cross

as I is situated in willfulwily, restless irrigation, rejectionentirely what falls on our topsamps stacked, is not perhaps thought ofsurely phone or to sinkwe as trusting without further

one route has always been jump offremembery is some cement, concretely inscribed“as never yours” yearned earned divedtruck rounds gyrate and roll on similarityand again to make meaningand again to fold upon

thinking dreamt a blood red verseand in waking thought fields, letterswhite spray mechanically clickedirrigate from naturalismwhat further can nurtureclenched head drops days in the drain

repercussive, an event happenscauses nausea, photographs, not heatso much as humilitymaterials wear thin kerned swarmedto spit atexact sense when where’s inside


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Scientific Management

17atrial brought engineers

steelplaned industrial

cent inconclusion

onlyintelligence took consideration’s speed

conditioned a select work standardfor each combined technique

increased loweremployed tools directed device

completion nowaste

and easily offeredendeavor

machines was inoperation extended toelimination ofof overlap


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100bMechanization plants the problems which bend their efforts

to solve. Foreman Steel comes to the conclusion results achieveplanned management. Human and machine elements he tests, intro-duces, conditions, studies, selects, taking measurements performs aday. Reaches and finally results with effort — specialist condition,expert system. Assignment inventories regulate hand at all why idle-ness provides bonus to stimulate charts. Accomplishment of men andmachines comparing with each. Scientific management has beenfinancing. Especially in ventilation of waste.

111doverlap latter part new then earlyassistant come satisfactory onlysympathetic security partnertaking and rest and machine and takingwhen a standard finally evolvesspecialist condition expert workmencard keep hand through movequickly foreman for showscientific management has beenfields of market light overlapof work scientific management


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Notes for Link Fantasy

as if fallen into water

tells again, the story can it be true, treasureor little princess he makes no bones about notgoing with women any piano teacher

behind this shadow cast from your eyes, word theapparatus projection room

lie and sleep and love an order beyond us of the earth dirtbeneath our nails what filth beneath bed sheets but from onehundred feet in the pitch dark we knowwhat

it is to be soiled, to sin against knowledge, to be soiled

let loose among men again treasure or little devilcome inviolable shrine never taken for anything but whatshe is never anything but taken, and now

a bullet and now, nightmare of that sex tell mehave you any more virgin shares

going up everyday, never anything like themvirgin shares god bless virgin sharessomeone’s confused money, and now the nerve,and now the songs

luck o’ the lack don’t talk back


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have you ever met a lady friendyou could trust ëtil the very end over a barrel

in a waterfall anything approachingan accurate picturea stone tied about the neck

into the ocean where it’s deepest someone stitchedlanguage with a snake told a story this is it

the legal right to pleasure

just a trick you play with your tongue

painted with lips apart the secret beinglips always together she said embrace bound

fur

enough not talk one has a green lace skirt a handsbreathof lace a day twenty-four duelling scars long, the virgin,understand, is the mountain, on which they plan to builda cable railway

possibly overestimated enobling power investmentcapacity, dividends in useful/exchange

well, to take stock in the bad goods

being security on that account youthful exchangeaddress the story

product of labour function of leisure tender

is the night love me tender i haven’t fleeced you


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because i loved you butbut loved you in orderto fleece you

just a trick of the mind

while falling into water

see myself falling into water, thus, joining the audience

how cheerless not the killing but the blooddas blut

a crime against reason godblessemancipated flesh but one gets incredibly nervous inprison


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Holy [Holy]

Swivel head winches lower lids upStrained half-mast The respectful gesture

taken Profile pivots crisp iambic Bloodboils, scum rises, neck rash, the hush he

gazed a switch across my cheek.Well executed bitch Semblance of penetration.

For you here is duration withoutpattern Merry Christmas Little nothing

recognizable Studies show Irreducible tofood So against history.

High road or low roadmeet you at seven-eleven.

troubles at the hub of againUnbridles panty motion runs amok.

Troublesome monk groping sevenheavenly bodies Agéd call.

Recommended scape book logs momentscut out of to be Preparatory toques

for socks, whose decision.Who can forget a foul smelling.

Eye to window, rain in between Whereverinner is outer is downcast Pity.


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So we walk around some nature Pinto Beetle RamPopular deplorable, really drives the noun home.

Placing bets on expedient weaning Oddsagainst that puppy in your pants.

Hot dogs. ’ream Talk around yourBaroque Abulge with deep sea catch.Advertising helps Good things happen.

A cute capital in a nutshell. Shemailed. Our crafts went abut. Oneof me daughters last.

Peering from a bin women with only spacefor a hat. Suppose the Prime Minister agrees.

Quick fuse clenches and wides eyes.Shifts, weights Takes blow

Lowly swings and chucks chest scumboils, neck rises. Stiffly speaking he

was careful not to spill his seed.Well informed duke Righteous contact.

Mass, inertia, velocity, mathI saw faith: dog eyes fixed

thru the laundromat door Eagerfor a commentator though no one

yelled heel, we did. Let us meetwhere all the numbers are.

She drained him.He squirted her.Oh, mercy.No, thank-you.


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Taking Theory Home

All dreamt for was old furniture, notfish politics warpaint.Incubus history close open visions, as ifthey ever were as if All is either orI am inamorata or she devil.Red fish swim by laughingno step into the same year twice.

Any place between solar and lonelyhe confuses grey green checked coatfor the blue black onefodder & fodder a rankled wardiplomat gone wrong who’s got poppo-matictrouble he is internal swellingauthority fossil.

Another such worker by the library.External swollen, books armpit to wrist.King of the corner or walk sign.Now, moon sickle framed in windowencircled by passive gazes up.

All dreamt for is optionsDisembodied soft sell or suck fungoid roethru a tube, all is bum holy onlyone is with linear link.Imagine difficulty is visualize the egg.

Rain, weep troubles into the River Gutter.This place I drown daily.Keep distance with living.


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Window into a still bustling center.Movie set Removable clouds tread.

Still, wait and watchan expansive postcard watchall directions In this waywait for what is waited for.Everything as imitation noteimportance in choice.Enter Dean-o poets.

Refer to women as women you’ve hadStill Some call it baggedOnly in places that involve bloodbush, rifle Here the elbow patchneeds no licence Enshrined.

Target an audience or refuse to participatelaughing a word is a word black or white.Check Is the mike on Yeswe’ve had a board meetingYes, we like your illegal art.

Turn to window for comfortable distance.Flat up against formation Changeno way if there is no how.Not this but one morningImpaled Sharp-pointed monumentsSunlight break glass.Delightfulthe building won’t be finishedSuch a hodge podge hee heeScab hangs.


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He used to get up at 3:30 in the morning.Didn’t come home until 8:00 sometimes.Now it’s 5:30 In the evening he’s humanFenceposts again no union or deductions toughhere the scab hangs.

Architectural mess how many centuries mixedin improper context.Self-definition is to copewith these despotic edicts — notfeeling so wellMaybe it’s something you read.

LET ME TELL YOU

In one hour they pulled the rantout from underneath.Not following the logic of historythey refused to recapitulate.After lengthy pontificationthey cast potato bombs. Splat.

Theory sat fat, eventually dropped.


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pop on class

these atmospheric conditions

close in here, very small

little bits and a piece

is under

erasure

head hah

furthermore

as the rats

Got Not Happy Day

correct sir

inaming

invisible

instigma

Johnny line three please Johnny

sung Jackson

no swans at the swamp

her owe

is disparate

whipstitched

repetition

leads to

attitude retrieval

sand before the kettle

broken

before the shrines

of Sound and Pleasure

a dry bob

no hocking the chizz


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sidewinder

mower model palsied for≠≠cake has never missed my chain jerkevery≠≠dissing intersection disappointment juncture≠≠paper

user pronounced all as noise and guilty≠≠feeling consumptionforever to≠≠be crap that should read the quality of≠≠persistence

the sloppy sentimentality≠≠the laundry stomach grumbleindecision that babies stumble≠≠over the sea missed≠≠my friend

should read missing friend his truck backing≠≠up a waste oftime≠≠the recent past that coup that military could≠≠North ever

take over≠≠could He? is writing is this is it≠≠in it thetradition≠≠of in the memory of if y’all had≠≠been born in

the≠≠mistakes made should read errors of a kind≠≠bearing thebulk of≠≠“baby me”

reet plead drape shape≠≠the skirt had an oversize billy clubterrified≠≠stray dog write off≠≠because the good guys were

really bad scoots≠≠to shitcan the jimson≠≠or get collared guttersgurneys the breathing hairbag≠≠the halls of Tripol≠≠from

mouth corners extending upwards to both earlobes≠≠chasescooze seditious jail≠≠jolts because the good guys were really

bad≠≠gangsters truncheoned pot roast≠≠kiboshed ragtops yourseabag’s leaky you caught too≠≠many your father the≠≠droolcase shitbird rube Nazi≠≠“through-and-through laceration”


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what more could they?≠≠sitting around this grid pitted cavitycells re-entrant≠≠and looping ill swabbed≠≠in by the suzerain

demanding fealty our lunatic≠≠reticulate our SickBuilding≠≠Syndrome I anything of or relating to the≠≠WestWind mild or≠≠gentle not now not ever a shrinking (class

of)≠≠violet our reason mollified≠≠to the duplicitous bevel ofmixology miter anyone≠≠of or pertaining to≠≠sense of touch

don’t see dross no favonian≠≠lack haptic ≠≠“has lunacy”

taken at deaths word≠≠has come vegetative growth from nutri-tion not sex≠≠asexual fission in budding≠≠manacles only

staminate flowers drag crucified to fists≠≠to mud to barrels≠≠apeavey having that quality sadly exsanguinate as≠≠quale notpeccability yet≠≠the super quivering star quim status curvey

avatar≠≠is eructing and besmeared≠≠and limpid with pectoralintelligence and being of≠≠that part of≠≠“will culpable”

in this my culch≠≠my natural bed delicate is just that we≠≠existin the storm≠≠of our lunar orbit evecting against the

sun≠≠around the asp of≠≠Taylor at foot fall alcohol describesexpression or≠≠function like the cold-blooded≠≠designation by a

security pledged against the performance≠≠of an obligationlike≠≠a sidewinder made≠≠“mono phthong”


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in token of faith≠≠in Christ of the blessing but formallydetermining≠≠gravity Gruff is that≠≠Gruff on the bus? divorce

spreads widely from≠≠a point or axis≠≠as it is Latin to be spreadout≠≠not primrose (a recess≠≠in luxury) not pornography (a

stick in the≠≠mud with blood)≠≠“but having pores”

loofa humorous and copal≠≠social are anus of the mora andare≠≠quite ready to breed≠≠but the vendor in his grotto has

adhered≠≠to the lyric not≠≠to the eavesdrop and pressure of thisconfined≠≠idea will vary inversely≠≠with volume and cause a

flowage for “the≠≠milter”

and his auger and≠≠his fishu and his attar and hisdeliberate≠≠and willfull giving his≠≠prong horn a rebuke “a

blessing”

“Whether we have grown≠≠more moral”


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I Guide

Given thirty days to nab a cocaine smuggling mobster I stowaway on a ship bound for England. Donning a mask I assume thesecret identity of a crime fighter but my most trustworthy sourceseems to be involved with a major league drug dealer. A reformedjewel thief is suspected of returning to a life of crime after I fall inlove with a wealthy young woman, aid two lawmen in rescuing a townfrom the clinches of a ruthless band of outlaws and sing a string ofclassics. Love me tender. To maneuver Russia out of a war, I smuggleLenin home. Rose becomes convinced I’m dead. On his weddingday, Bobby is berated by Ray, Cliff brings me to the ceremony. I try toconvince an Haitian immigrant to file rape charges against the son ofa Bolivian banker, so, I need cheering up. Twin sisters make a pact tospeak to no one but me, baffling psychiatrists and the outside worldin the process. I am based on a true story. I can’t help falling in lovewith you.

Torello and I join a federal task force to topple Luca’s LasVegas gambling empire. To save his friend money, Norm helps Samobtain a copy of that expensive engagement ring that I chose. I stalka run away girl who witnessed a crooked union boss. I perform onperiod instruments, in stereo. A young woman addicted to drugsleads me into a series of tragic love affairs. I am sexually harassed bymy boss. A secret service agent tracks down a ruthless counterfeiterresponsible for my murder. Interviews with Fleetwood Mack, me,Robbie Nevil. Performances by me, Smokey Robinson, ABC, theKnack and Roger Daltrey. I seek out victims from a nearby orphan-age.


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Swoop Contract

Because an opera singer. Failing tomato juice, macaroni stuck to thebottom of the pot, she squawked. Dimly lit with not much energy.Soon enough proctitis, user failure, the common cold. Inordinatemasses of yellow in the cloth, at day care, kids swear like crazy, still.We share a common plight; boat of no move. Better now with veg-etables and for myself more and more hops, but some days shirt tailsare creased and tense in unpopped knots.

At what is refrain; T.V. Her woe, muffling through the thick wall,antagonized, emoting much like healthy family relations. As learnedby what is seen, bad reception, no coloureds in the pastoral.Mountains, of course, make for awesome, cut off signals, and goodart. Not surprising then.

At most. Find suitable vents for accumulated skittish conduct andkeep professional muscle struggles at bay. Wearing a tin foil suit log-ically helps. Suggests immersion in water blocks bad karmic bitsbecause theirs is usual physics to such things. Leave it up to the spe-cialists, but taken to its limits, we find a dirty minded dentist in ourpast.

Tonight she sings bleep. With the option to view, squares of meaningcreate. First, a head shot of a fish, then, aerial of fishing men in skiffs.With the tool of induction and prompts, we know medical companiesare interested.

Yet, attempts to join the dots collapse. Foo-foo knows a grid and stickswith it. She sang about death like vibrato but it was really blood thatkilled her. Not so or maybe more sad in another language; peoplewho would make fashion sensibility their next project, and never getto it. I was trying to turn on the TV and ended up in the scandalsheets. Subjects of interruption signal words more urgent after a fewannoying calls.

Sometimes the subordinate clause is while you still have friends.Causality abets restless energy; ensues credit. If stool the size of aninfan’s head is removed from one’s cadaver, it’s a sign. Adjust con-nective degenerations. What appears to the eye and touch after twen-


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ty or thirty years is the same after forty or sixty, singing, cords, casts,stuck to the bottom.

Code functional disorders in green is another. Modern mechanicsreproduces pitch in varieties best suited to it. Changing the picturecan be less intense, generally prettier. More and more medicine anda clean smell of stepping into a new model — continuum disposal.

Hence, more are aware of their own skin bits these days. Cell forma-tions on file dead on DNA. In grade school we skipped to the stationfor trims and prints thinking what a trip. Soon enough, inky splotch-es revealed. Nomadic molesters sentenced to elementaries. Test thetheory.

One-a anda two-a and a lynch. Wishing the cigarette wasn’t persistentin absence, lit the tooth pick, curious swoop, furtive, cough. She sangand felt funny around the women. How to take them. Pottery topple,on the porch, hulla-ballo. Red flush because in that museum talkedabout, more station representation. Some will never conjure culture,grab their coats, slink. Some stink of their own manoeuvre.

Verdict — harangued at the neck. Never to trenchant. Consideringan emotion places disjunction. To read out of talking cures, jobmyths, made for TV analysis, is friendlier to a sex life and allowswoosey puss cookie. At most, she sings the opera RAM ROSE. Chewspossibility of grain and exchange and apparatus.

Bottom of the page marks a drop off point. To not get into the brack-ets, or, sing alphabetically deranged. Written newly, edited newly,essential, easier. As if the thick wall didn’t exist her shuffling so clear;remembers using our language and parts of long division. The hors-es throat.

She sings a great deal. Her linguistic, dirty mouthed, her speech,acquiescent. Kick box. On the radio cryptics refer. Hey Jack Kerouac,you built this house. Either in or of the generation applied. The best of,conflating, slow as secret.

Lunch forward. Over-heard hose over. Yell timbre. Tonality generallywrong as in mood that predicates weather, behavior group moodchange, and vice versa. Carry the baby down the steps. A thinker with-out materials moderns the missed key, squares of meaning create.


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She rathers heat over melody, front to back, taste over quease.Bruises to prove it. Descends to the relative minor as convention, butnot to bridge the code. Criminal, sexual, circus. Spine balanced on arock is one of many. Forever calculate price of and time to admit.


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Skip Town

function emulation doesas if a TV could growatop another, shearingstrain occurs bodysubjected to shear stresschange of shape weyipped and whoopedfor an alabaster ruptureat least to interveneinvoluntarily I reador sing along

inactive rootlesscharacters looselybased find cellsin the volatile,newspaper pillowbindertwine noosenarrative a mirrorsays nothing

nothing has beensaid before brow,cheekbone, gaze, bymeans of that lightis open insidea toolbox recruitwith a tire ironappropriate


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smoking carves throatsin my heart Mr. Rick37.2 degrees now that’sthinking for the bothof us ribald balkingis easy is open togallstones, kidney beans,crushed tomato,due:

scabby sky yankeddrop continents ofwhite dry, tank topsand belly hoo somemothers lie flappingarms legs demonstratingenatic angels partychief pulls totfrom trench

reveal you can secretto pretty pansies orslinky evenings redressedlips smoke, hand shakes,the tongue can never liequietly play you likea kazoo let me slipinto my slip let meslip in lucubratelaxative

without inside atoybox unhinged litterblocks constructchanging sets of signs


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even an off shoot E-zoneprobe for faces fightingrages after trucecallvote to coperubberback briefly

to the rightcold apparatuschrome pole thickand sloped, sheikas a modern manpumping I’veaccepted that whatever you say isfunny I’veaccepted thatfin-tipped for design

temperature of oncomingdisease is passionbehind those pictureframed glasses lies“peach blossom in her hair,and a beautiful cluster of flowers,on her dress, real sweetly scentedflowers, but oh! you shouldhave seen her”

lava spreads, turns to rockbattle over atticvoluntary interhomeowner tussle, red alertwas wheels sticking outof the bedroom hijackingsofas and liberty love


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seats Sid Viciousdid dishes simplyenamoured with armourthe horse Farmer,he was sold

owing to passageof water through skinswell sphericalparchment bladdercondense to centre,porous pot, car alarmtouched once morebefore combustionprotest heart washout

rain continues sleepcontinues fogged gazenoon’s slow pullfirm nose holdchilled hands onecould violate abedroom by smokesmoke in the chairsmoke in the porridge

hands scrape tweedbroadloom burning nailsdon’t do unto each otherof the same ilk raincontinues sleep alsospills up from overlips, under the table,fine, done right notto do at all no oneinjured with impunity


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after all thisthereforebecause of itromantic I swirlworse than crimeit’s a blunder givenchoice between talkor belly bucking I’dbone up on beltingdown for sure, from(size of) foot(mouthed) a partbespeaks the whole

form suggests plottingcorresponding valuesforce to time, shouldthis be known, driedcurrants swell becomespherical owing strainowing to passage ofwater, of skin


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cells favonian, of or relating to the west

wind, mild or gentle fealty, faithfulness allegiance fichu, a women’s triangular scarf

worn over the shoulder fiction-makers, the Saint is mistak-

en for a mystery writer andforced to plan the perfect rob-bery

flowage, to turn red in the face fraktur, a style of letter formerly

used in Germany get collared, placed under arrest grotto, to think or move errati-

cally Gruff, is that Gruff on the bus? gutters and gurneys , either of the

consecrated elements of theEucharist

haptic, of or pertaining to the senseof touch

harbinger , indicates what is to come headlock, a capability or aptitude Hersey Highwa y, ring road in small

town jail jolts , periods in prison jimson, weed junior tornado , kid kibosh, an authoritative prohibition

or rejection of a proposed orintended act or idea

limpid, transparently clear, easy loof a, humorous treatment of a

very serious situation

acrostic * loof a

acrostic, to determine the specificgravity

alcohol, describing an expression,or function

anus, the deliberate and willful giv-ing

asp, Taylor reference attar, a fragrant essential oil or per-

fume made from petals ofroses

auger, an intestine chase cooze, to pursue women

excessively or illicitly cold-blooded, designed by a securi-

ty pledged against the perform-ance of an obligation

copal, a social visit or friendly visit,between whalers

cross words, corresponding num-bered clues are supplied and fit-ted into numbered squares, sonamed from the rattling of seedsin a pod

culch, a natural bed for oysters deanimize, to deanimate delicacy, just that divorce, spreads widely from a point

or axis, Latin to be spread out dross, to the halls of Tripoli eavesdrop, adherence to the truth erubescence, to redden, a flush eruct, to belch evection, at foot fall exsanguinate, to drain of bloodf a ve o l a t e, pitted with cavities or


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louping ill * quivering quim

louping ill , tremble lunatic, an internal sorting tech-

nique in which data are displaced to permit the insertion ofnew data

lyric, the principal that at a fixedtemperature the pressure of aconfined idea varies inve r s e l ywith its volume

manacle, liable to sin method, kangaroos have a particular

mode of carrying their young.Pa i n s t a k i n g l y, especially slowand painstakingly

millennium , tribal wisdom and themodern world. Stories about agarbage man and an ad executive-how various societies describereality in scientific or magicalterms

milter , a male fish ready to breed miter joint , bevelled edges at 45

degrees mixology, imparted knowledge mollify, to lessen in intensity mora, the unit of metrical time in

quantitative verse equal to theshort syllable

more simpatico digs , moving out Nazi drool case , your father only staminate flo wers, male palindrome , the liberal left or the

liberal right pantaloon , a stock character of the

Italian commedia delI’ a rt e, an

old man wearing spectacles andhaving long trousers which ter-minated in stockings; he spokein dialect, was absurd and doting

parole, release of a convict beforeend of her term on certain con-ditions of behavior

paoetry, some measure of pre d i c t a b l eregularity. Diction and soundseem to be dominant, meaning,on the other hand, has held to benonessential (and in some casesdetrimental) to paoetry. Since thereal nature of paoetry is vague andindistinct, definitions of it are andh a ve been mere mere theses to bedefended. Chiefly Brit. So n n e t ,Carbon monoxide, Ceramics,Lead poisoning, Snake bite,Domestic fowl

peavey, a wooden lever to handlelogs

peccable , handcuff pornography , a stick in the mud

with blood pot roast , pot roast cut in between primrose , solar perturbation of the

lunar orbit prong horn, a sub atomic particle quale, a property, as coldness or

softness, considered independ-ently from things having thatproperty

quivering quim , one who has spe-cial knowledge or access to


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ragtop * Zion

confidential information ragtop , facial expression of a person

or car ratiocinate , to reason logically re-entrant , looking inwards reet plead stuff cuff drape shape ,

ducktail gangsters rete, an anatomical network, veins

arteries or nerves reticulate , resembling or forming a

networkrotl, Mediterranean currency, one to

five pounds rubes, uncouth persons scoots , mullah, rotl seditious , constituting a language

that incites others to re b e lagainst the authority of a state

s h e r r y breathing hairbag , theGoddess of Love

shitcan , verb shrinking violet , a shy or retiring

person Sick Building Syndrome , allergic

condition sidewinder , made in token of faith

in Christ in the blessingspiel, to cast out through the mouth stray dog , tax write-off operation super star status , commonly used in

zoology but no longer in botany suzerain , a feudal lord to whom

fealty was due swab, introduced into the body t a l k, on the conditions that she

report regularily to an officer asto her activities, where a b o u t s ,and similiar circumstances. SeeWriter’s Talk

t e r ri f i e d , because the good guyswere really the bad guys

the skir t, begged for a shack job t h ro u g h - a n d - t h r ough laceration ,

from both mouth corners acrossmasseter muscles, extendingt h rough temporal mandibularjoints upward to both earlobes

to their fists , to mud, to barrels,Lenny Bruce

vegetative, growth from nutritionnot sexual reproduction, asexual,fission or budding vendor, strict-ly forbidden

your seabag ’s leaky, musta caughttoo many in the ring

Zion, a place, a prophet, a curse, anass, a rebuke, a blessing


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Suasion 1727

it pours

will never evenrational splatfor fallen in arms child I child recess

gene ticimbalance requirekicks out vertical clench nonetheless

repeat verbI love you am you lovedcircumvent doesn’t know meaning of word

lists of reamsif not delivered shouldercold or wet and a half score swings undo

he keeps for herselfclosets a fair jagimpersonate mum hobble mouth format


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3. Envelopment

Skinny with Jimmy Fat mashedpeel Ernst and Susan safingworld it costs

Docks

white barrel better rashsun shards

Oasis D.

sleep that’s easy dead manbird food could have herdoes the Driver thinkwhat dinks?

0. Autrey

false face gangtrain blubberat the passthe easiest

V. Tele

Elvis my utility bills


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Only biography. Face as close (memory)An incident in the park called.Epoxy Police. Kid on the swing yellsRonnie scribbles, Ronnie enters a worldembarrassed. The woman with glue left,indifferent to, and, doesn’t smoke, got awayso to speak. Not a loose transcription but languagedevents. The end pulled through and the distanceallows telling. This not the business of tellingbut the ever expanding entering the world (middle).


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Ma says not enough mail, Pa,more flakes than poesy.

Throats over a smell.

How an umbrella can romanceperform an archduty its own spot weld

Let me let me all dayadolescence spoken hugga chucka, here

Elvis my issue

Politics rights down my alley,suspecting device


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and nothing. Rings. Soft pearl

Appears. Into thin air

Circles curve a sore bodyA broken nerve. Heart collapsed

under the register. FlutesHeat. Ogled her out of thecorner of my eye, salt water

Perfectly constructs silence

Funny rhythm cryThe living roomInto the basement


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her body. Black and whiteand read all over.

Gagged language

in the face, countingRings. Ships appear

lines leading history asover an edge.


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Crazed man trails, on a deskin a dingy, permeableMeat. Tinned goods

friends sink. Wellingcavernous underbelly

Tropical love-lies-bleeding

A collection of other peoplesFive digits to own


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Instruct Obstruct

Men and women are taught proper use.Soft, rubber, dome, mouth.

Place in place the back of. Spring.Holding up against swimming. Beyond escaping.

Because has a limited life. Will spread,may slip. Edges.

Squatting, lying or in any other positionand squeeze are close together.

Side up aiming towards the smallSlopes. PLACEMENT. Catches in the

hollow then push, hook, bone, front.Firm, like the end of your nose.

Can you, you will feel if it is. CHECKING.Rim and follow its path.

You have found the is over it.Incorrect — Do not too soon.

One finger, hook, rim, boneit may help to bear down.

Wash warm holes up to a bright light.Storage pat, 2 towels, dust putaway, rubber and can.

Do not tub bathe. Think you are allergic,or cream, otherwise, work equally well.


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Some people feel less than other brands.RECHECK. Every after after after after.REMEMBER KEY. There is no safe time.Killing for eight. Practice! Effective ifit does not work. Failures are user failures.

What is thimble, flexible (figure)Directly held action, additional, groove.

Before, you’re in for one or two occasions,over extended, back up along each in return.Size of checked. Place.

Remain in place for at least removal,coughing, exercise, dislodged.

Obtain optimal. Fluid will be broken and swim.Cracks fill with thick, small

punctures raised and resting, reclining half-wayknees. Holding like a cup.

Hand back along back wall. These manoeuvres helpcompletely. Ensure outside.

Push over of wall is extremely important.Tilting, break pull.

Awhile swells slightly, creating a movementyou be able to reach, some find.

It to if they into the up over.The back will come out upside down.

Store excessive heat or cold. If you can,avoid regularly. In a solution.

Any questions about this method call prepared.


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Cross Words

grandiose in Canadian provinceice immediates the author, brandingword partly burnt Coal Riverthe music of syllable is an optimal statementa brain, a child, an inquisitionfasten on or recess thedespot spread northtorrents of decay, cakes layersbeing aware; the jewel is the landa hook for angling across base illegally, offthe smallest wind can stagnatepoor grade locally somoney rings in decision

act like it, act like itor eliminate the alternativesthis kind of dream wageredoperation homo sapiensdevours the cause but not the painsomething sours in the windmake haste, demand, travel,indoctrinate the noble co-workermake public the gooey stuffthe cost of felt anger arrestedzero trees, imploring primrosenot one stranger partedmountain irks

Hey — when I was ninestreet cars and poets


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flicking special angelic headgearmembers of the elliptical brass burdened the mostaccurate award “crow” with “grow”(a Joycean community)

that babies stumble over the seacurtails money wagered in my own way

hero dodged, got a “C”, tried to steal a baselegs house addiction

even medal ogled the innovatorsomething prohibitedmore or armour

driving homebaking dessertbetraying displayedpraising ruinreviewing toochanging skinadding foodabbreviating me

getting lostcalling updoing nothingremoving studsbranching mathdistressing stareastounding lessstuffing wordcomparing typesfinally lubricatingtea for two


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petty officer in hog’s heavenverve forbidden, also breathebegin: green girls corn bread lubricatesmore or mud, gets out

biblical word speaks incoherentlythe giant official thick growth

a hair of concern, a dazzling conceita footnote abbreviated, a crony

open lawmen to balance —one opposed three

study live stuff carefully, the equitable give upthe trapeze Ivy Leaguers, like helium

dead and crookedto pieces and miscellaneous and instrumental

in the atticvalued shortly, attacked harshlynotions sieve thru Queen of the hurts

perjure, crust, exist as a social climbermove towards the middle

reports leading sticks

Cape Fuel gaspsspinning holds back too badpublic made the ebb and flowedit cupid fortune uplift


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Broadway’s bent, zealous and bombedreverie in dispute is leased in logicprecise location:stupid, altered or joker?one ribbon criticizes the yield“in with the no good”eye’s guide layers oncanter, acting comically pretentiousthen turning fastidious trotsword handles the poet mending what is gambledtinging the spurious sea with skybearing the air’s line, the camera’s neighbourGeorge of baseball, in his intense strugglesbrights the biggest part of withdrewislands near glass, hindering skinnythe leaf of recompense which is Englishcompose and fibered, planted in thisvicinity, yoked, paired, symboled and seeded

Fly drunks —

opposed to petal essence pokes rational wordsunheedingly

into the ego

major routes follow social, guess:early times, other than the ruled

fragment blossom

present: beehive state, military branch, flattery biz

show is the acronympajamas bahama etc., jacket partmistakes caretaker for characteranal chief for honkerjust skip the church area


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make eggs in a wayin bad faith, fide, boric and aminochew on that, english river, the kind of girl I like too

active mob scene aggravates the a.m. word murderle. mine eg. stuffed

cubed meter passes over the mealthat old butler Zilch fell behind

I love latin

second-hand clotheshorses, mold-ripened cheesefender ornates

paint or pathbooks or mapsmating game deduces the lurking title that creeks far from secretinto alert links, tropical fruits

for the July crop, Paddy climbs the road to Romeriver edges salt in the older wounds

passagewaywieners porridge as certainly is factualtopical area performance:soldier and workeritemize social waysoutput, standard possessive

hell hounds and beavers work“eye my long strayed peninsula”

solemn heeded the mountainchain drafted the letterlug knuckled under a head

at the fables end an animal pair are ready for business


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Lads —

too hasty to salute wills spigot in the opusbe in cahoots with you own hectic decadeHarold, Michael, Michell completed classicallydarn shit shit darndaytons neared the cityfeared a kind of college

night’s head piece on an onion skinbullied Egypt to tease Miss Janeprofundity set in Chaplinventilated in Hayworth

ported in Pilot’s place

slender shivering fit jockeys couplesbuddied up to a harvest goddesswas a drags drafttoodle-oo choose

Pan handlers —

a first name in Tan is Tankardstart astonishes, it resorts to panachea trap for lariats, it prizes statues

soul singer sermons, Yale student addsmy inventor How, points

adolescents in one type of hawk, typed of pain

actresses marries proverbessay cowboy competespitchers, like coloursengineering architects penetratemoney bitches, function mikado


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characters are put ondietarily neverso swift with the herb and white flowersbefore even head or foot can dashproperly to claim

the hawkeyed multitudes of coedsare the shrewd ones

again that english river I outlet, effortlessdance with, relate tolike a Soviet city in a Panamanian lake

the appeal is outmoded, an occasionalrespite tiffs off a styleLeander’s love of grand mountains

winners need a set of toolsas a fin needs a barbershoppelvic bones power and bustle the rodlittle articulations sprouted, necklineshaped itself

hands all over the drivers depth of posta nettle like cap landed on top

solitary wrestling wins

trade marks are worngave the gate a terrifically inflamed basinpounded the poet out of the rounded partskind of drove promptness into physics

sapients wander about queens and old potmaximally mediating fragrant ointmentDilly, what’s your real name?

head count comes to the top


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lazy ones look the other way

gist of stratagem isconiferous “said cheese” declaimingfootless letters and winged animalsa cinch

close fitting hick, you sweet potato

I could bulk a horse a horsequaff one or two lines andmake over a statement at the pub“I tell a line”

a little bitter professional

salmons down old coins andare made into deli meatthe ill-bread man an ovable loafthis residence is stuffedwith gentlemen and expired meatshutter at my blindness, my enthusiasm

curbs string along and are begone!a big bash is proportionate to phaseI perceive in the house, through the aperture


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First Faked Chapter

walk milked offa castrated giant ofsad eyes, and curvingonyx coloured hornsmixed address, maybepicture that, what means

but mostly the fragmenta solid and detachablepart — object howeverknown as manlikewhile the lady’sdetail — foreground

not overwhelmis dissimulatingsearching in lawshe’s a whole lotta Rosiedouble sinksswarming, finding units, rushinga declaration ends, asksfor sure I be composedis next — glint

mannequins fragmentwholeness seen as theexclusive property ofobjects adorning — figure

walked off, collusion caughtas station index and spinare you taking me for a draftor are you taking mefor a draftSeams you, entirelyraisin — official


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colour of the coalitionthe human crotchbud, lag, lacunathinking changes whatas no sober is anticipatorywaiting for Dexter by the poollift a means to go

thou is no secretthough a repeata common mistakebeauty, rhetoric’s objectnever enoughletters to rich and sufferingpractice that — for themsugar is hard to swallowwalk, don’t, run


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iCS Fihing hol

Wee Plad in The iCS Fihing hol

and There was

can You B Lev iT

a sLiding Place Too

You again Will You I win

FiHing and There Was 3 SeanS

ME ME and SeEn Me and sHAWN


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Perth Bless(after L.Z. ‘s)

Perth bless, heardDied on theShieldBeen birdSplatter hopesNo butt thing asSublimeGo mind go tellCruels best nest annoyed

Cut day, JoeLather to smellYou, kissed butTill nothing ofMind is trough —UnsandwichCurs in gloatBlow-dry airs heardGo mind saw tellFoolishness is lopped


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Suasion 1965

Sudden well plotzcontain out impermeable describe, the mess

Puddles explain obliged optic the slownessStill seeming air, tilted holds glacier still not

Defer dripping splish, electric light, the corridor, theimaginary, moving subject a picture

A flutter respireintermittent and squeal hinge

Over left in joined squeak, thudhouses muskeg and brown

Known been done, buying no one chunks more sometimesMuch inconsequential, of accumulating to, and oh

confusing prefixesDays of block, it seemed, I boughtBag health please and shrink betweenFile the skinny Moby

Idle item IBad sin negotiated badly, landlocked

wound from the ripe, swooned overmalaise sideline splits air

Pukey is casserole, liquor is quickFive thirty until she was ten

basement fantasy invasionSmall town

Plays of surface a consequential linePlumb the gaps the caves that

thinking is compressed and usuallyattribute heart

Is syntax is part of a syntax, of and operation


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So envy difference taught evenSpaces are characters to pay for

such that those who love who lovedon’t transfer

Fulfilled, double, levy aroundAnd desire attracts

and rides the phonecleave beam on

Man quit that guitarfor looking like falls at the knees

Springs up sweats overeyes back woodswants him like want

A man has a cartDeposits and pushesApproximating shelf life romance and scheme

can’t like want no matterOur pals, Come & Go

Different built between complete thinking backwardsBy the tail, roundel collision

load loop drunkVowel ripe of foul

distinctionWill strong belief because of yesterday was before never beforewas

true know howopportunity to

Puppy for bone

Ampersand, off partly, toric, patchedabout amour

Lever at down thinks previous repair thoughtCautiously, easily, skim variables space and take

roll me overdesired fashion in a reeks scud, hung tough


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Or, have known to be protective, as comfortable

As, an open door on moving locomotion thank-you for the papershredderdear god, better kept to oneself finders keepers or meditations

it’s O.K. teaAll that is grist for career

it’s T.K.O.Alphabet enumerated the finishOur days are numbered

Who’s a little fou!High body’s hell road bent beamPaved smooth but the toll like replacements without ideasHard rock straight ahead

Understandable the indecipher, where to hangdecision who was made

Move in piece meal and bit workSleep with decision, do itAs they sing in songs

actors say tooauspices of learnorganization of loveoften badly as not


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ad ream(after A.S.’s)

Fear why it’s dame sin rapt in lovely leeches. Glances spikemany rooms do, strays today spilling of dream. Love disdain the rigchapping from crazy, calligraphic mold in needing corruption. Whowill love between need and knaw. Herein the slur to have been anoth-er’s lies. In blur of the sing, hellos burn for kill innocently. Swirl themeaning oust, swing that allowing might. All stains on who makethrough their mind.

Bombs can stun in aplomb melt doubt conforming mine. Fatearrogance mirrors some lauded mess. From chordal dress stitch partof a mention. Immenses a mass reeling off horny throes; what kinderploy chains a darling. Wine dwindles down to a precious brew.Neglect smirking as the action. How played would you feel. Distantsystems by word, let’s heal with them, not kneel to them.

Today a food meal estranges what is mental in course. Must ofpeeped scared and that gives us wool upside our eyes. Does you dothe voice yourself round in the crate joinery of anguish. Sentientdown to its reprobate bed seems good enough for me. But how, raz-ing curs of force, can loss articulate more world. Homage withoutevolved rancor like hot wheels, the most churned reason is lodged. Igrowl on, stung instead of screaming out a coward’s lament, insteadof a reactor’s door, or a volt ground in rhyme, or still a little natureless a tune heard.

Udderly the boonies muse are us. Sly hose slide under her seatquiet like suction made this tense ebb open. Sunday hags reverseloaded dawn, three’s anoint, bereft of up market biding, cakes in theface. Burned into one skin’s living scarred from other’s takes. Trucksload up skids of fact determined by bills of lading. Until to slid off atmono rail, pulling on my own star.

A wetness roles in many rivulets. Dew past the feet her bodicesplits, cherry lips, heady clam. Unchained at the start or mutationsconcealed as living up to a person. Panic, from within, or upon us?Laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh. Morose at the properpoint and the quotient is told. Trances and seizures hired to ques-tion. She is something; a spot cognizant because others are here.


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the relative minor by deanna ferguson

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