Showing posts with label Questions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Questions. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

You

...
You started reading. You could say something. Anything. Right now.
You could lift your head up from the page, look around, see if there
are people around or if you're in a room by your lonesum. Not that
You don't already know. You do. You could say something aloud;
You could read the bacteria on the wall if you tried hard enough;
You could announce how you feel for once; You could say anything;
You could say something aloud; What wouldn't you say aloud?
You keep reading. Have you ever thought about interruption?
Remember those times you let your blurts out? What happened
afterward? How does it make you feel now? You still read.
You could say something aloud. Say something aloud. Say it.
Say what you would say to someone that's not even there.
Say anything. Make something up. Say 'squilp'. Really say it.
You keep reading. You think the word 'words' a little bit.
You think. Say 'Go' ...You stopped reading for a moment.
NEH, 2008.

FACE CARDS


FACE CARDS


the old
Queen of Spleens
will not . allow her
legions . to ask
'Why?'

so
the Jester,
Deuce of Hearts,
asked, 'How come?'

d oo m
set in

NEH, 2007

the LOTTERY

Crapshoot venture chance doubledare rapid risk fuck it
poor thrown daily dice at future children
"good luck" greeted with surprise thanks or reluctant jinx

"Attention:
'god peed'.

Attention!
wasteful consumers,
a human idea has grown so powerful, so puissant...
it has urinated the marginal possibility of wealth!"

Dull to shrill, inconsistent beeping, ...recycled reminders
cash? credit? debit? verifiable currency? debt?
please rattle off an excessive string of numbers that identifies you
or just give us the last four digits
aching heels, banal discrepancies

"god peed,
all over this land"

Thank your local
menial gas station co-worker
tear off ticket, pay with hand
pay to lose dignity for attempted luck
NEH, 2008