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so smoke /
fabricate the lungs /
from landscape mulch and standing water /
wear them on the outside /
swaying like a fraternal medallion /
reflecting the sun into a toddler’s soft eyes /
the body is always over there /
shifting its weight in the corner /
not knowing what as the conversation expands /
if only it didn’t wander off in a carnival crowd /
and mail itself back the next day /
edges darkened with grease and volcanic ash /
managing to find a prehistoric eruption on the prairies

full fulcrum today /
hoisting menus and business cards /
over the neighbourhood’s bubble /
there’s liquid silicone massaged over everything here /
lubricated with hovering chatter /
that never touches the ground /
that spit goes nowhere /
presses familiar shapes /
which neither lean nor twist /
safe scissors /
slicing through sidewalk-crack foliage /
no thing arrives here roughed /
shark skin sanded down /
may Eris move in next door /
and pull another seething mass /
near this district /
showcase one utterance /
that is not owned /
to move the other continents closer

a new now /
wanted whole /
with a healthy mix of soft and hard consonants /
so enticing, a second stomach is formed /
to swallow all and the more that keeps frothing up /
like all paginated magic /
this is replenished by consuming /
a font tapping forth /
a second sun cracking the window

the dead don’t stick around for the credits /
they know indebtedness ends /
in a thin flash of late evening light /
stumbling down the stairs /
a monologue in need of captioning /
the dead leave the movie early /
deciding the production does not serve the story /
sticking their hands in the projector’s beam /
stealing the crucial image that ties the plot together /
writing their reviews on cigarette-stained windows /
spoiling the prequel already in production

to the letter /
as if anything else is possible /
even blackholes have names /
shout into the wind /
try to surprise it in this time /
described as a peak amongst peaks /
it will fill your mouth with /
something you don’t know /
space with shape /
not a line anywhere /
how to get from A to B? /
cleave the tongue

here comes the other planet /
just on time /
pulling up tight to the curb /
its rivers, a flowing smirk /
clouds hiding volcanic eyes /
it know us, our cascading needs /
our heavy foot on narrow necks /
and doesn’t attempt to wave /
as it leaves us in our own exhaust

a screed /
a screed /
scream the crows /
having perched over /
the shoulder /
of every aspirant

enough humans /
time to exit in an ordered manner /
less weight is needed in space /
to find air above the horizon only here /
other bodies have yet to discover /
our peculiar touch /
for consuming whole ideas /
in a white flour dough /
all at once /
as one stomach across the globe /
every abstract becomes a meal /
sinking flat feet further /
in the matter of opinion

12, she is 2 /
half of nearly /
dozening the morning lull /
a calendar of 5s /
all weeks’ end /
celebrating on ¾ hour /
oddly even despite /
doubling in sizing up /
where 1? /
that paid for counting /
relative numbers /
multiplying in squared footage /
along the port’s divisions /
keep subtracting from 0 /
until the sum is an outline /
holding decreasing air /
generations in the negative column /
adding to the absence /
in inflated margins /
write off

okay, let’s puncture this ark /
drive a self-sharpened awl through the hull /
one defined puncture to spread the verb /
through thousands of gallons of licked force /
trawling land 10 metres high with gulfing transparency /
not like walking through air this saying /
it brings density to a stroll /
washing a species off the table mat /
leaving room for a new scrawled outline /
to scroll this earth