Fervent Congruence

I would bring something with me if the cardboard

images we burned weren’t considered counterfeiting.

Its not safe to buy drugs from your car in this part of town, though

the basest weed makes to be idle sweet.

You are far from credit-friendly gas stations. But I love the seeing

that happens, as one might expect, when I see you. That line took years

off of my career, and this one shelters it. I hope you remember our jokes

about the earthquake and the hurricane, and how people asked us

at what time on Monday will the courts re-open? I read books

is how I would describe myself. How the body intrudes

with the women I think about. It takes a lot of work to keep myself

like this. Have you read INVISIBLE HANDS?

And the keys were bullets and our guard advanced. 

I like it when it talks about itself. I don’t smoke

cigarettes, and so am generous with packs that I buy every so often.

Maybe we’re talking about a paradigm shift here, getting away from

ordinary work and the pattern of Adam’s curse,

where Fucking will tend to not be poetry, though much to the chaste grins

of the audience. I don’t know where the vehicle went, nor where ought the tenor

come down, if she’s in key or what. The sexy domain bolsters

our time together: it renders my bawls and yarn useless

for the labyrinth. For eighteen minutes on the bus I had accepted

that I was going to vomit into my backpack on my way to my first day of work.

An errant shot too much, down the wrong pipe.

I grabbed the wrong pipe. Hey man, he said, and it began.

This hope needs authorization. We need to get a life.

But how long have you lived with the etymology of love?

I tested the briar arch, and here I thought that finding

all the questions was the point. The scarf combats

friction around the neck that would otherwise disincline a man

to turn his head about. The socket and horizon are the same: look at the array

of snowflakes on the window which outbrave my patience

in softening to elegant droplets lacking that resonance I would prefer.

They shake to the engine in my left ear. We shake ourselves apart,

and are named the luminaries of 20^th century phenomenology.

We managed to pan out from the generation. Glory old,

old delight. Bravo to the yellow evening. Its an at least OK

goodbye, with a fervent shake. There is the fish that will not break

his stare. My conceit is pejorative, could use a lift. You weren’t adding terribly much

to this now worn-out flare of the times. And the crowd goes wild

at the motif’s return. We have found the real and I am keeping it.

Keep close, love one another. There is more we can say. So,

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Jerry-Rigged and Jury-Built

Where do you attend to the universal?

Hope to feel capable        with status of a state of nature

or ocean. I don’t want a nanny, find me my mother.

We’ll work out the physical limitations later.

The lakeshore seesaws and other spring-based animals.

The birds on the barrier show that

 what something is is what it ought to seem.

Allow the speech of suffering, it’s a reliable pride.

Heidegger says the corpse is present-at-hand, which is one

word. That’s what bluesmen want to do, as well as what have you.

We are, of course, the coolest country in the world.

But lots of people are also interested in Nicuragua; and I went

to El Salvador once. The stationary should be disavowed.

I know the world will explode and I do not believe

we will stop. Our roots in nature,

we are the poetry in nature. Your stepmom is too much with us.

Back then you were so accessible, like the combed part

 of hair was to the rain. Fused joints and the embodiment

of the review of books. You dislike how I call attention

to how much help we need. So we can keep moving,

you’ll be fine, but your soul is, though not a Thing,

the most important aspect of your shapliness.

Look at your walk in the mirror,

your gait brings danger to this place. Remind me

how to help you. That comment flattered me,

but really only as I look back on it. I thank you for basic needs.  

But to return to this same taxi, after all these years

would bring catastrophe. How long has the day

been taken from us? Please remember to keep it relevent,

even though we know how real time is. I have here

in mind a trickster who cheated not death but Hermes,

he who ensures that we get to where we are going.

He loitered, and is happy. How do you spell

the word for “rebirth” in English?

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Picture of King Arthur Riding an Ass into Rome

Busier at the buffet with the current increase in late style,

we enact our own with mealy palms laying on referenda like cucumbers with grooves

peeled so they fit in our serrated eyes.

All the diversions and cones float beneath the bus

and some soldiers come home to empty apartments. I summon you

out of my current surroundings: the Sacre Coeur,

bent-out-of-shape windowbox holders, the bagged statuary at Versailles.

It isn’t working. You’ll later read what I sent you, so you can think about it then,

but I’ll have it edited and make sure I am up to enough.

I am thinking about you though I wish I could

think         you. The sun rises on syntax also if you’re about someone

with something to love that’s close enough to important.

Just take the note and hit it. Hold it whole if possible. The fences     we’ll put in

in the post-hole era. The line producer was also on screen the most

and is credited as a secondary grip. Here is the structure, up ahead,

supported by seven temps. Do you know

why they would say that? I do not know

why they would say that. Just go back to the I-miss-you-more-than-I-can-say

well and be believed. I see Psyche, and Love ravishing

her, and You, and soft Venuses with a shady satyr.

Mercury also carrying away Psyche, this sniff this immediate allergen

is pretty much you not being here. I wish I knew why itches hurt—

or at least why mine do so bad I have to stop. 

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