Saturday, August 31, 2013

a paper cut
while exploring humanity
the world is salt
but poetry helps
as the city disavows me
with fragility
and precision


Thursday, August 29, 2013

Small love messages 
To participate in the daily kitsch 
Fascist but beautiful 
Assuming infinity exists is inadequate
Better to take advantage of loss while it is available

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Sorting through abusive mornings:
-Occasional butterflies to curse
-Few memories that will erase themselves later
I breathe instead of breakfast
A soothing world of trial and error awaits us
Until death opens up the shape of the bones

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Saturday, August 24, 2013

estrangement
(sweetened)
with opened bridges
loss is so unpleasant, we want it
with limited ambition
the clocks move
estrangement
(rented)

Thursday, August 22, 2013

Operating from a withheld safety
In the intimacy of extinct music
Some argue for due process
The moments of useful exile
With its mild discrimination
And abrupt orgasms --
Searching for one's own bones
In artifacts scattered
Over multiple bodies
This is to await constructive feedback
Upon failed intimacy
Split this Korean dish with me
Then complement it with sadness
This hope is dire
And it needs the war skills
Acquired over years of poems

Tuesday, August 20, 2013



All I can afford
Is a small scale metaphysics
Enough to run a rented apartment
With borrowerd Wi-Fi - in order
To watch a faraway war
Or book maintenance appointments
A small enough metaphysics
To invite an angel or two over
& cook them hot water
In exchange of divine secrets
A small epistemology
To go with it
So I can read cookbooks
& cartoons about Spinoza
Or the washing instructions

Sunday, August 18, 2013

It is a minor corner
With the laptop illusion of knowledge
Where I can separate the good bombs
From the bad dead
While contemplating the distance
Between Mayakovsky and Lilli Brick
I work with weak closures
To balance the killer within


Saturday, August 17, 2013

Back to the conceptualism of rain
Under the burden of choosing sides
A skinny sniper sends his bullets
Into Harold Bloom's guarded Canon
What is the ethics of fucking
Under civil war manufactured tweets?
I draw my line at 3:00 p.m.
And at crosswalks of trees
The desert will come and go
As often as rain

Friday, August 2, 2013

an urban experience

                     GPS

                     death news

                     deaths news from Cairo

death
&

Probability
To Mustafa Said 

The airplanes are landing in Heathrow
Meanwhile some rich dude is studying work
Mustafa: fucking in front of mirrors didn't solve much
Or did it?
Around here, there is a digitized infinity
But driving takes the edge off
From the middleness of the middle class
Yet doesn't work well with loss
Or the news about bullets
Taking out the enemy
Who is equally aroused by certainty