That's One Way to Go

Some experts call for daily applications.
Some call for no more than 14 days.

Twenty-eight can be a magic number.
Showering can be important.

Dental hygiene is far easier to spell when you have auto-complete standing behind you.

Is math your friend?
By math, I mean equations and software and robots.
Don't be afraid.

This is an early scene and no doubt we'll encounter some mechanical chompers soon.

They are telling me that I meant "choppers," but I didn't.
They are telling me "chompers" isn't a word.
They're trying to trick me wrapped in helping me and that's how they do.
Isn't it cute?

Things have been mediated your whole life.
Don't be afraid.

And only islands are islands. Don't be afraid.

One night you dream that language isolates are gorgeous.
Another night you dream about interstates and tubes.

You get to do that day after day as long as you keep eating.
That's what it means to be part of all this.

Location:Takoma Park,United States

Still Reading Tomorrow at Big Bear (Well Actually, Later Today), But Right Now I'm Writing

Should've followed through on that threat to mix single malt and Ben & Jerry's.

You don't stop.

There, as another threat to just close my eyes.

I play by the seat of my pants.
I believe in luck and blind luck and people that jump out of planes.

He believes the DH is ruining the game and something about long kisses.

I've heard of this thing you call history.
I've heard of gossip.
I've heard or uprisings and revolutions and this thing called Twitter.

I've heard of Egypt and Tunisia and also Baton Rouge and Key Largo and Plachman's Parrish and Fresno and Sin City.
Look at them all line up like that.
I could keep on.

Roll them up, knock them down, spell them right or wrong, say horrible things about them, roll them around on your tongue, dream about them, buy tickets to get to them, rent cars in them and rooms and pay taxes on sundry purchases.

Bodies crawl across them by the thousands;
Heads peek around thresholds;
Weights press down.
People look up at a sudden noise.

Don't stop when you feel it in your ears and across your eyelids.
Don't stop when you Nashville or Philly-Sunday-morning.
Don't stop when they say you've had enough, because you
You, sir or ma'am, are the only one who really knows.

Now get back in there, they are waiting for your entertainments.
Can't you hear their teeth?

Location:Mt Vernon, Baltimore

I'll be Reading at the "Chery's Gone" Series, Thursday (2/15)

Cheryl's Gone Reading Series
Thursday, February 18
8 PM @ Big Bear Cafe (1st & R NW, DC)

David Berrigan
Jamie Gaughran-Perez
Arielle Bernstein
Greg Reinfeld (Music)

More info over at the reading series site.

Honestly... I haven't a clue what I'm reading yet, but I have some good things brewing.

It's Behind and It's Tabled

His head was so full today.

And it's cold season.

A twitch of the fingers says oats somewhere in California.
And California is always coming up — played
"Move to California" while making red sauce,
but for the sound more than the meaning.

Stay there another year.
We'll see you again.

The snow has fallen,
The world is snoring,
Here I come.

There will be woods all around,
And leaves budding and being and falling
And honest to god pine trees.
And we'll have a great time.

I know we will,
We just need a decider.

I wasn't put here to let you down

I'm Going to Make the Best Goddamn Smurf Village You've Ever Seen!

Keep an Eye on That Mountain

Vegas and variance will care.
Mention the instance, mention the mile.

Come on, come on, come on tell me it's black and white.

I'm screaming and I'm waiting, but I'm screaming.
Do they use a subtle way? I think they do and sort of and

Black can look scary.
Up there and reversed and kind of fleshy.

It looks grayer than my skin.
It looks redder than my skin.

It screams a little. It boosts. It's better now.
Something clean from us.

Let's see what we have going here.

It Was a Long and Great Birthday Weekend and I'll be Telling You All About It

Don't Forget (or the Greens)

1.

I want “more options”

The Shondells, Crimson and Clover

Puppy done loved (and that’s all right)

Smells like forever


2.

Padded switch (a whip, or the thing you flip?)

Sudden debt
Sudden debit
Sudden digit

Dark room improv troupe

You lose “human” when you become superhuman


3.

Would they, could they kill you off

Things dissolve

Green skies say run


4.

A supermarket for your super eyes

I see your young love and raise you buckets of blood

We are the audience for terrorists

Just Oranges (4x4)

Form “litany + 1”
Something with bruising
Is it a fight or just a display of reflexes?
The spider wants to die there.

Purple sky stories
Molding robot excerpts
Turned around in the surf
I’m thinking about everything I don’t know about you, and I feel like I’m going to be sick.

A field of flowers so big you can see it from space.
It doesn’t have to mean anything. Your call.
The life observed and marketed.
Make dance parties, not history.

Unholy rattlesnakes
The small hours of morning when anything can make sense like, “Yeah, I bet that’s how that happened.”
Coming back, but staying with an architect friend.
The last lane you’ll ever need.


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Of course if you want more than just oranges, I might suggest:

(blast from the past)

The Red and the Black and the Recording

Cadence of the passenger goes blah blah blah blah

The death of gravity
The end
The overthrow

Axe the hands of an angry god

The people say, "We won't take this much longer," but they do.

Rarer isn't better

Pay now
Pay now!

The Patron Saint of Borrowed Cars.

Six-by-Blue (The Relationship to Records of Abstracted Value Shouldn't Apply to You Here, But Who Am I to Say)

1.
"Gentle fist"
Once a paralyzed Chinese gymnast
Once an Algerian young man injured in some intra-national conflict
One about positive perseverence
The other hapless feelings

2.
Outside the
Stadium listening
To game on
The radio
(I want you to kiss me when the day is made)

3.
This seasons's It girl.

Paperclips at the end of time

4.
iTunes album of the week
Syllables or word count or words or letters

5.
Scribbles apples
Paint the paints
Walk to the ocean

6.
A kid thrown in a cab
Natural-born contrarian
A Summer of nosebleeds
Calcified deposits
Rumple