Miu Miu Altoids Apple Sours
Seven fingers a whisker a moustache
O you O you My Darling Brad
Where Have You Gone
Today Is: a rosary of roses
Garuda flies North
Thelma, upon her adoption was renamed
Ananda is named Ananda
Ignore narrative if you want the poem
to live longer than you
Phlebas the Phoenician,a fortnight dead,
knew that and how
Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as
you.
When Connie got back from India
the first thing she said was:
"I've had it up to here with Supermind"
then gestured her hand flying
over her head
I sensed in her some creative tension but
shrinking creative tension; I also pictured her
living in a capillary somewhere in a human body.
Not hers.
Let me into your life
I am a wine jar and a drum.
Out of the goat's nose
flows the Ganga.
Slyly I remain
Slowly I go
Time is not a mistake.
You are right on the border.
Today we had darjeeling, Russian
Caravan and in the afternoon:
spinach oolong: a green day
smaller than an insert.
why is it
every word
has a meaning?
don't forget to pay for
any apples you take from the drawer.
he breathes out she reads aloud
she teaches him to read he remembers
hearing the Katzenjammer Kids
read aloud remembers seeing
in the little shop one
summer sat a little parrot
and next to the little parrot
sat a little man: a midget: he screamed
you mean the word five
means ten and ten means turquoise
while there is no word for that word
you cannot think of just now?
ok, these dice are one-inch
cubes (with rounded corners)
I found them in the street
in a fit of confusion
remember to tell Mason
I'm trying to bewitch him
with language; remember to look
in the mirror and see him: narrowly.
remember, Miu Miu, Miu Miu says
to herself reminding herself for fear
of wanting to forget: notice how good
he looks, his famous Crest of Ilium.
-- Jeff Wietor
