Glossolalia 9
2.
I consider your cranberry sauce cooked
notions of food appropriate
in this situation of missing cupboards
she grinned, shelfing the recipe
a degree away from its exact
original location
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3.
"Saturday night pressure" on
friday night -- connecting to the invisible
why meshed with elements
like grass in cracks in pavement
who could possibly sustain
an amorous moment
of illicit behavior
suppressed repaginations
mark separate border styles
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4.
crammed into such a space
the patterns match its own immensity --
complexification through symmetry at odd angles,
an observer from a unique vantage point
maybe she was down there on the floor, the ceramic tile,
squares continuing in both directions. mold in the grout,
where it grows, a summoning
behavior emitted
through tranceivers
what was once thought an approximation
accumulates in basement drawers --
the bottom incident will overcome
and condense
all howevers pounded
as ruptures burst
not water
a pouring
of the molten
(reflected in her eyes)
almost relaxed
with gained composure
from animosity
a progression along
a forecasted linear
belonging to the proper
generation that would fix
the world's problems
(as they saw them)
through slow rapture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . .. . .
pieces falling as curdles
a vat of milk rich
with froth as if
there were something held back
something to be missed or being missed
or Mrs.
stolid on a grey background
a pushbutton "alternative" to the
suburban scene
ravished
here in the city, residential section,
in the abandoned by the middle class,
a wreckage of stained oak trim
and inadequate parking
margins supported.
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9.
with flattened senses, the osity accroachable
aimed in-to sal vation
mixed necessity uncertain
"... I thought that I had lived in a world
as it was and there were all kinds of
people in it and I tried to understand
them, although some of them I could not
like and some I hated." E.H.
judgement raynes
to be
possibly
avoided
maybe an agreement
between the disputants
forge hearing
certain phrases
inadmissable
lie awkward neck craned
lift cage door closed
wait for represenatives
code of power
manipulation
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9a.
stories of annihalation
execution
by mass-media coverage
linking nodes
in an abiotic network
hallucinations of shape
and geometry
fantasies of discernable location
where fixed points of authority
collide
among irreverent
remote controlled
personalities
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