Friday 12 June 2015


PLAZA DES ALWAYS

everybody contracted lupus that year
and drank coffee shipped in
by bas jan ader

telemarketing was it
and so was everything else
just not to 
them
yet
and how they got it now
     finalemente
and wished for fresh kills
every day

*

/ nowadays they ring me up only
   to have their clairvoyancy
   confirmed /

*

prime suspect: over-dilligence
as appointed by a lamp post
selecting witnesses at mass
rate
before the judgment

light

and presence

and a couple of bankers from istanbul
sucking backgammon chips
from the curb
to defy the master trickery of
chewing gum
and holding on to currency
as they see fit
as gas stations
opt for concordance
before the meltdown
of play
altogether
smoking guns they say
seduce lovers
by daylight
on saturdays


Wednesday 10 June 2015


ROBES, BUSTS AND RHYMES

more or less equal is less or more like
what she wanted he thought
as the bed had its say
and the shutters bored
on with nothing
except shielding
mother
mary
volcano
from sleep
and shipping news into
polling stations as a soft
pull at democratic intent

that word, she said

brings me closer to coming
than any promise made by tongue
wheel or legislator alike
wild buffalo
shores dried up
long before the promise
of an ocean

Tuesday 9 June 2015


LITTLE STARK, LITTLE BLED

third rock from being charmed / by my unknown assailants
and just a breath from turning my cloth on the heavenly moon
to let go of a moan held on to for too long / says one who shall never
bemoan no more / for my tempered heart has shown the time
      accurately
as professed by circumstance / and flawed guts /

theeleaves
and suckling chin

my last words will be given to me
and i shall accept / them
as a last chance at poetry / or family
or a house
that always wins in the end