Reed Altemus


     for the postal monks

rant trash your scabs send blooms of lust rain down dust
pushed last live said drinks fall touch ready shoe trailer
vent bottom sack guess finds slow tongues behind press
lung wire twelves diner saccharine head juice for senses
wanders grow ghosts which yawn long since fridge rung
fills out such crutches rat come to run plural findings sin
saturated gouge jingle line tried trial spent grows hot tumble
wastecan suffers ounce the limbs cut nostril ticket blink
rested tricks rind advance sex utters post fence drawer
jangle present and single hung wiper drum ladder bleeds

FOR NAM JUNE PAIK

GO TO A OPEN POETRY READING AT A DIVE BAR WEARING
A FINE SUIT, WINGTIP SHOES AND AN ELEGANT TIE AND

     A.)    BEGIN YOUR READING BY CUTTING YOUR OWN TIE OFF
              WITH SCISSORS

              OR

     B.)    END YOUR READING BY CUTTING OFF YOUR OWN TIE
              WITH SCISSORS

Winter 2003


DISPOSABLE KNIFE INTERLUDE

PLACE A DISPOSABLE PLASTIC KNIFE ON THE EDGE OF A TABLE.
WITH YOUR LEFT HAND HOLD DOWN THE PORTION OF THE KNIFE
WHICH IS ON THE TABLE. WITH YOUR RIGHT HAND PLAY THE KNIFE
BY BENDING DOWN THEN RELEASING THE PORTION OF THE KNIFE WHICH
OVERHANGS THE TABLE. TO CHANGE THE PITCH USE YOUR LEFT HAND
TO CHANGE THE AMOUNT OF THE KNIFE OVERHANGING THE EDGE OF THE
TABLE. LESS HANGING OVER = HIGHER PITCH, MORE HANGING OVER =
LOWER PITCH. PLAY SOME STRAUSS WALTZES.

01-20-05


A cut-up from spam posted to the POETICS list

time bucking kier policy middle-temperature error self-contented cocoa
cutter peach canker hog louse liver blunt-leaved harvest home current
sergeant wind dash plain Trans-mississippi cloth spatter wanderer
garlic oil terror-fleet lover sailor gang street virus verse anthem passing
before-known self-propulsion bleaching dichromate bread-cutting
well-knit web-worked cutaway coat nonvalue alluring gland cake sneak
straw fiddle Aesop ill-colored guard soft-bright grain-growing spiritus
cacetate green all comers cockatoo farmer dew-lit bass killy canker
powder driving punch cave-lodged suction crystal terra four-yard dog
asper sea-beat fungus lapper putura ordinance Semi-norman wool
world-bound fishing hapenny banks slag silver-backed self-paying
rose well-acquired made eye sheet mill tallow-colored short-headed
sketch book abutment arch half-baked spar flower-infolding tonnage
wood chipper calamint knife-shaped cumulo-cirrus storm cloud pillow
down louse summer-lived honey magpie diver dark-eyed peasant-born
prawn Iceland worse-taught rule displacement drainage theory setting
rivet buster wood mid-career cranio-aural cat potassium ring trench plow
pine half-misunderstood shirting flash high-souled brush owl plate miller
zephyr quasi battery tallow segmentation wanton-winged cameline set
oil cherry curly-coated Neanderthal man torpedooil chestnut bud sierra
brownbark three-guinea cartridge spinning Philo-turkism pine trial court
dredge bushy-whiskered well-sufficing carriage lamp souari-nut faculty
coral-beaded school-taught friction money by-sitter rock fourpence bill
slip annealer prone eye-conscious well-greaved tree root-built self-trust
rice hand solemn-sounding wheel rod quasi pressure method wind-swift
cowhage tradition strake self-gratulation orange elm shave rush spar bridge


 
 
 
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