fragments found on pages that dropped...a book of white void...

god the sheaves of time when a room is filled with paper...

i had to stare at poems from all sorts of years and mostly speak brutally to them in my head...

i figured i would try to pull out some fragments where the poem was wandering into the correct territory but unfortunately stepped on a land mine....

The sublime has awesome snipers....

you have to crawl to make it that terrain...but even that doesn't work...

The Poem is Hamburger Hill.



(music by Philip Glass)


these are fragments. i'm not putting these here to unify them into a single poem...

maybe more as a book of fragments with a lot of white-out blizzard condition are them...the saroyan prerogative...?? or grenier's awesome A Day at the Beach book....

I would probably narrow this down to like forty or fifty of these poems, one per page...wasteful of paper but as an e-book no guilt.

god i loved that grenier book when i read it years ago...after reading that i typed a bunch of poems inspired by his style on fake dollar bills...you could buy big wads of these very large demonimation bills at the dollar store for a dollar a pack..they were good reproductions on the front (blank on back) but because they were double or triple size a real bill they were allowed to be good facsimiles of the fifty or the hundred dollar bill....i have no idea where those got to...





supersaturated, we didn't talk a few decades

now a tiny bird of enlightenment says...


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Snowmen were abandoned by trade agreements

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But opulent in the bone

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Sensation in the act of gathering
Cessation in little ridges and furrows

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Casting of family isn't subtle

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Verlaine realizes too late

London is squeamish

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Caricature mulch?

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An eye's inability to corner one color

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We never met the Barcelona chair in poetry

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    a squished insect


oh god the legs are still kicking

a chorus line of death

Bob Fosse choreograph this!

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Darth Vader is cracking up

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A plastic snowman remembers everything.

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The trees

after a manner

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borrowed people

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populated

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The natural smile of fucking or shitting.

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A priori right in the kisser.

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Feed signs all the way through

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The wizard
we signed for

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of witch
of sleep
of witch

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debt of love

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The forest lost like that

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The seagulls aren't in

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A pencil is not masturbating

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A thirteen-year-old says "oooo-kay" to mass murder

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A man is only because

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There are too many commandments in the potato

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But these aren't called that

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Saying back or staring back

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A monsoon is caulking a window in a beautiful way

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This is stem cell research

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a period is confused for a stop

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really two figs glow on a plate

fuck you they do

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often the one who turns back

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rivers into the hospital

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oh people will cling to anything

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smiles turned

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and realized he was talking to a hallway

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the president is wearing a paper gown

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are your own deeper thrusts about you

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some aristocratic moss

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it's not like we're learning anything

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velveting up a mailbox

can be sexual

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ambiguous slit

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given up for dead

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after a severe stroke

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their eyes and their sex

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They have a heart.

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light the physicists said

this afternoon

pulling on a dog's chain

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May his pubes atttract grizzlies,
May they build a Wal-Mart over his grave...

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comes to take my place

which i was so bad at filling

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the predictable warm bed

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being mostly elsewhere like music

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(your fucking) forgetting

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No, this isn't

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people lament where

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days that wind

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a little dog

cropped up between his knees.

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The unicorn smells menstrual blood

searing. a hot iron at his brain.


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the unicorn mind

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"the sound of a water-lily tastes of horsemeat"

Who knew?

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our rarefied senses betray us

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We hear crossing water, trees.

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it no longer matters who said what

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All my life I have wanted only

to be guarded by sleek wyverns.

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She has been watered by Merlin

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I give the white slip to visitors

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"Bees must be told of the death

of a person in the household,

or you must turn the hive around."

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I like your cataleptic glitter

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Do you like mine?

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A shirt made out of iridescent c.d.'s

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We have known the greatest Love in other's vestibules

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Oh, they are merely feigning death in each other's velvet arms.

Again.

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Here is the monument

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Do you know the way to (Charleville) San Jose?

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We can take this taxi all the way to Rimbaud

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You're no Izambard.

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Folding and unfolding all night

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An angel has licorice wings

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sweet, incarnate error

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I have a means of identifying wolves.

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I prefer mens

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a bluebird on the snapping turtle case

yeah. right

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One should be beheaded while young and handsome.

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On a train while looking backwards,

sometime before his planned wedding.

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A projected spot

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one finds oneself staring

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a poem is like a dragon's tooth

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the museum is closing

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outside or tomorrow

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sit patiently upon your haunches

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is a wolf musical if you follow

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the old view of heaven

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Apollo Smintheus, as god of mice...

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pretend to be.

a luminous phenomenon.

but I.

Sorta.

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after the illness, a luminous

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Blind as the Pythoness, baby!

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talking a lot is a way to salvation

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it's a foiled sphinx-paw

what didya think it was?

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a proportionate distribution to such loss would be fair

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a tea service from Dresden

or a male prostitute

hmmmm

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Horse chestnuts

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"That tree was brought from Constantinople in the 16th century."

"Shut up."

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If you stand there you will realize they are automatons

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I linger over glassy fangs

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a wooly mammoth from your childhood sees you

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but what was Keats doing at a midnight truck stop?

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I grew up in suburban phantasmagoria

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mauve flowers on the tissue box exhale

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I kneel to hold her bird-boned hand

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i tripped over the opposite of nihilism

a pansy

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i have my pansy defenses

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i have my pansy defenses in place

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Man's state is

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through a raging tunnel of imitation

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music's crumbling espionage

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a landscape is never blind

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this poet is astride a donkey

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nobody is "hawk-haunted"

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welcome to my ruins

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tacky humanism and awful mercantilism

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death is probably only temporary

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there were bellows in the chest of the Colossus

that consoles me

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unconsciousness is addictive

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you are sweetly indelible to this scene

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the sentence a dark jetty

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the only mirror available

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sorry for your puck