Poetry
TURN OF EVENTS (from Live Feed)
Nation subjects fall out
fantasically
yammy yawning
In another movie—
I (or she) call the person you intrude
become
this here
and
that there
dissect the letters
(instructions ((to the contrary
marking boundaries of color and break-up
(alchemically)
But I took the conditioner out
misty misty misty
recycling music
in a get-well envelope
surfing a liveboard for
lovey dovey
Moon lights sky.
Objects outlast us.
Give mom something new to brag about
A career for life
Beta wranglers
smeared in ex anomie (blushed)
I couldn’t beat
perfectly perfectly perfectly
Identity is a picture
flattened for improvement
put off
shaped
like the end of its remote
while you (where there was no correspondence)
build poetry
transfer
loops to
undermine fiction
penis
nectar
nugget
plummeting
lump
Oh Totally
It made me want to black out
(growing)
a kind of
buoyant drift
lubricated
sucking
PROTOCOL’S BAND-AID
beneath present day carcinogenic zone
Size does matter
Delay itself cooperative
We do hair and a nine PM movie
Costumes change the body
in fractal honky tonk
stitched together by scrim sections projected across Eco edges
rerouting sunlight
and impure per cubic
booty
Notch my standoff
sub
fab
moldy
tense
alienated
work
based on meat grinder consistency
(in adequate time off
I think he likes wrong things.
I have to come up front to press my buttons.
of power dicks while dispatched alibis black out.
if not for the photo.
Had not been random
He’s only got to reparation
History breaks in—the geography of
periphery
text
anti-parcelization
sex
blisters distend
honking
soothing, hoeing driving
thrown under
purity gap, three room
stiff
trumpet bruise
or cross-continental
Payload sentimentalizes conceit
A coward’s stand-off
And his
noblesse oblige
households’ lies
under a
zigzag
set in
COMMUNICADO
Do people frighten you?
Inexplicably
Loop holes
It’s go go
mamboed
on in
incomprehensible WITHOUT
utopia)
holding hands
impudent Americans
REPRESENTS CONTEMPT for nation states
data sentimentalization
Saddle an advantage
State violence
encrypts
bodily.
identifying
post-colonial shoppers
with what’s become:
inconveniently surfaced
inconveniently polled
inconveniently wavy
inconveniently upside
down
you’re into that
upside
jack-off job
I’m sure you know more about this than me
Question?
Boot dollies
In your thinking cap
influence
skin
A dialogue
shaped like heels
LOGIC JEWELRY
and crudely hurled
Cannibalism is essentially conceited eating
the dark lighting making it morning
independently
of vast ads
rimmed in
progress
that limn our horizon
This is
DERM SPLAT
cruising
through to worse stuff
in the interest of local
energetic squirrels
(us girls
conducive to
sexual tension \ even recreation
my country ‘tis of fee
what are they trying to sell us?
sonic colonization?
Medicated TRIXIE DECALS?
A body
set up its pre occupation
(Foucault goes to town on this
Reason is not subject to us
My caution is Kant
so i pull on the light
the counter of corrosion
curl-papers
lie nationwide
Doll dom roots
Pulls
for
relations within a politics of visibility
hey
dead head
I dislike Xtianity as a metaphor
I would imagine when they figure
out the superstring of structure of the universe it will look on
dream work.com
of the dimensions of the universe
the opposite of notched
lazers with their promise of perfection
I’m all for dehumanizing dogs.
first infantalize, then dominate
finally (
the power of metaphor and displacement
answers back
large-veined waxy
pov of characer
not in standard of fancy
Listen
skeletons in the closet still another example
.not knowing what my rubby ducky means
Resistance
the waitress in Jamestown speaks
lingerie aesthetics
(oh you, here’s to romance
needing a “people fix”
in retrospect
a power loser
or
Barbie
“on the outside”
gets revenge language as a structure in movement
braided patterns in pomo pompoms
a sort of happiness working branches)branches sucking it up
I pun
my stop is next
I want to start from different. The agility world
That’s a bit of a toughie.
Mediated
effects on WAR
controls the unity machine
This leaves me dead
cold.
slow
digital
drama rubber
an equal thickening of residue
dripping racemes
see
material
trajectory material
trajectory
of vertical material trajectory of
reminiscence fuck it up
quasi-vertical
minus the panties
maverick panties minus quasi
It had something to do with talking
while dancing
LAVA ACRYLIC DACRON monsanto
backed up
Inside-out deconstructing
Can you get me more background?
The fix is in
it’s pointing. Pulling out the heart machine
funky and bug-eyed
Answers back.
Pretty soon
They
Expect
the world for home construction
put it here pecker
vernacular layers
blow out
Don’t forget the candy. Look like a guy (a glove?)
X-girl
X-girlfriend
to go
as if for our entertainment
the ultimate
short term
hypnotized link
of sound artifacts
Authority
Trapped behind palms by german-hungarian celebratory bi-national corporate dinner.
Feel like your apartment
While you’re out of it
Slaving over work.
Answer back.
Morphing surprise-you-stars
and screen names
MOXIE
it cost this result
a terrific pluralism
mired between
cousin technologies and calls for pre-approval
DADDY slime
which paints gregarious solipsy onto an
aging artist showing his work
RESIST! An always yes and then it is only half the yes that is gotten.
patterned plaque on toast
get off the dime
A brain
that rolls
or better at it.
The days are wired together, the signs are terrific.
needle-strewn
street
calling up
designer braces
(you pay for the garbage
We put them back/propel the
interruptions
making an event out of day-technique. Flipping
on the switches, increasing pressure, we hold it still
fraying away shame, ambition, social latitude circumscribed
by punching a clock, making you drool
(for what it’s worth
We’re on line
waiting for a vaginal sheath
I’m episode phallus. it drifts
muchas epiones
That’s an exciting suit
near-sighted, promises
(Beverage and Redemption Center
(guarded by property wench
causing real blood to run
but understated and metaphoric
dire
TONIC Denial
We’re getting mad at nuance
or more realized (fuss
transferred dubbed poetical possibility
of
our distorded glebe
draped Thumbelina
with black scrota of sweet screeds cacophony
Drool through my beauty
Spawned from dark to shining seas
Statically lucked
(some squeeze
our present configurations
represent
(it is, isn’t it?)
as thick as cugells
a kind of crumbly,
a vacuum tube
mock-heroic
nifty
geographic
locational device
benevolent osmosis
four-track gigaflop
urban
soundages
on all fours and at this distance
“Will it hurt to be a drone?”
Living
I video respond to suggestion
biodiversity
kiss
casing professional payback
(just lips on the image)
pitted the document
Is this ambition?
checkerboards of
a room where people live as comfortably as plants. it’s the real story
which is on the way out, so I read
stepping stones in snow
funnelform
of ardor led up
Contributor
Abigail ChildChild is a film and video maker and installation artist.
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