Spiders,
bodies lurching, ingesting other spiders in the hot lamplight.
Ingesting flying insects, lunging. I want to hold your lovely with the
history of my species. At the vibrating illuminated strings, hot and
white. Vibrating metal roofs and vibrating wooden posts. I will make an
honest animal of you with infrastructure. Holding up roofs and spider
lines strung along the posts and under the roofs, vibrating, the
insects blindly. We will touch each other, synesthesia with our
proboscises. Lurching at the invisible felt forms of other
insects.
Words lunging
at each other on a white sentence. On a bed of finely crushed bone
powder, grinding. Words are sentences lunging at each other in dense
white lamplit spaces. Saying themselves over and over. Urging the flesh
circus onward, surging with sleights of light again and reacting and
lunging. Words on a line of white light.
A woman who
doesn't speak English pointing at train signs. A silent film splayed
out across a screen of phantasms. In her book. Lines of train cars
arriving. Drunk German teenagers arriving with cases of beer and
hollow- sounding enunciated words. The way I made you a perfect replica
of my future self, panting. I am nervous. I try to sound out the words
in my mind. I move as little as possible. I watch the woman's hand
slide. Across my torso, detached and calm and my breathing is labored,
laboring. Her train schedule. She isn't looking at me. She is
concentrating on the numbers. Like a beastly perfection in unending
montage
The number of
spiders clinging to the metal roof is nauseating. The juice from the
spider bellies might be dripping, or I am leaking like you never knew
was possible in movies, but it might be air conditioning from the
bathrooms in the station. Or it might be rain. It has been raining. The
rain puddles on the roofs. It could be a throwback to the work ethic of
Egyptians, we hieroglyphics. Spiders drowned in the rain. Spider juice
in raindrops running down posts or running down my hair and face.
Wearing the walls, with steadily increasing conviction A furry palm
holding onto another face. You are cold. Don't look at the spiders.
They are eating in front of everyone.
We are eating
ourselves in front of centuries, we beasties. Each strand of her hair
is really insect eyes looking at me in thousands of different ways. An
infinitesimal menagerie of minutiae. Each eye emotes. Each eye is a
brain. Itself. Each eye cannot control each other eye. It is raining.
Cold. Hold me. With the collective anger of the struck down of
your genus.
Churches
survived the bomb raids. A miracle? No, rudimentary radar for enemy
fighters. Marks on the horizons. I am tattooing my sex on you with an
archaic second set of teeth. Bomb magnets. The bells are wearing thin
along the sides. The bombed out church is an emptied human skull. A
vestigial affect, an effective demarcation between us. Or two sexy
women wearing low cut sweaters.
There is a
fine line between holes and revelation. And the fields that we slash
and burn in past epochs. Sitting is a nineteenth century invention. I
bought a futon from Wal-Mart but I couldn't put it together in time. We
are finding that the age is now one of slashing prices and flesh. Your
beautiful unaccented voice must tell me everything. Barleywine tastes
like the Elysian fields. Like our blood is the domain of trappist monks
of Shitsville, USA. Of lightning bolts, unsticking. Or: our saliva is
conducive.
Please compose
5000 sentences immediately. Manifesto. To procreation in these parts.
Beardo townie manifesto that is full of holes and doesn't matter
anyway. Where we are full of holes, orifices. I wrote these poems on
paper first. An exercise in taking shits and the excrement of each
other in public restrooms. Form and formlessness are not existing
qualities. My reminder is on your thorax, we are charming. They are
degrees.
A doctoral
dissertation on the history of the instant replay. examples of insect
fortitude. A doctoral dissertation on the history of self-deprecation.
A doctoral dissertation. Examples of evolution and fucking. On the
history of mass-market paperback novels.
I feel your
products, sexy vending machine. We are losing limbs in the many holes
of history. Like beautiful women in low-cut sweaters. I am watching
your every gleaming smile. You are my insect queen named history Every
poem is a mass market paperback novel waiting to happen. We are useless
together.