John Lowther

CATASTROPHE INVERTED

^{Repetition requires the new.} I'm with t-shirt. shared.not.buddy-rate.
clipster.shallow.ornament. Tongue act. If you use it on one song                                                                    
Do you have to use it on every song? paltry.sandbox.shapeless.peril.
decadluscent.instants.i.ate. I sense that there is something crawling                                                            
On them. All downhill from here. natter.rehearse.inane.unane.inter
rupts.sprayfeet. On a scale of zero to four. Internal coherence it says.                                                         
Marketing. Wet knot enters fleshy emoter. How much is too much? _______
______nib.stim.bail.foreknowledge.crumple. The view from the ellipsis. Needing                                
A nail to feel grounded. About enough of that. Simple is as collapse
Mediates one the leeward slack. Hanging over head. Black from joint
To next joint up, and hope was bearish in active months. Mucho vivid
The produce of anguished social placement, not in spite of but because
We just wanna dance. re-up. Say the password. Loose my guts, melody.

RECEPTIVE JIG SAW

^{R e p e t I t I o n requires the new.}                There are no individual trees in this view.
To produce countable weathers. Ex-best acquaintences. Sources say.
Formality is non-linear. Enjoying myself would require working much harder
Than I enjoy. Wind yourself up then melt yourself down. But I don’t know
If I trust them. disambiguate.cranky.autoeroticism.miscontent.dumbed-down.con
niving. To be or to mean, but not both. Missing the dynamic totally due to                                               
Proximity to the secondary emotional consequences. I didn’t make the rules
Or the exceptions. I feel it without myself, but it lies within. Not your typo.
Settle for less. A loose end that accomodates headache nicely. Fuck this
Ascription of pretense, I use mendacity and the judgment is not found
In the word. blip.shuffle.retry.mint.interlocked.terminal.cheek.shakedown.do-over.men
dacity.multiplex.coindependence.sync.fault.maven.shackle.punt.substantiate.con                             
vexed.martial.eeked.trembling.pall.thermogenesis.hic.ate.nunc. Sincerely,                                            

PLANNED CERTAINTY: BAD

^{Repetition requires the new.}                                Use or usage. This ladder’s not long enough.
Damned unstable format. Protest or pretense? This is my hand and
I like it that way. obliques. A night of the sort about which a sleepless dreamer
Might say it was endless, but being so, never reaches that time when
That could be said. Infantilizing small print, don’t forget to forget to read. dim
innuendo.form-fitting.strophe.lopsided.pal.continuentments. But what if?                                              
Exceptional gifts filed under self-degradation and a wide-open schedule. mort
ify.tightly.stone.tri-entry.desiring.suppositionality.rift.felt.jaundice.con                                                 
notation.explicators.used.knived.leaden.impotentate.statute.line                                                               
break.assignation.non-causal. The way it keeps on talking us, when there                                                 
Is nothing left to say. Uncertain curves in the ideological matrix.
I give up. Tests that test something other than what you can know.
High surrender value. The shock of the taser expected. glommed-on.

ACTING BELIEF IN UNSPECIFIED

^{Repetition requires the new.}       Like driving a nail through the flesh
Of the tongue, precisely where this had happened time and again.
Fake space. Suspension of doubt turns you, and everybody else,
On. Between which two deaths do you think? The least likely, that which
Supports no justified expectation, and which comes to pass with
The inevitability of billing. Turning tables. Maybe I like it that way._____
____________co.simulated.enjoy.fob.category.pit.lack.fict.dot.wallify. Maybe I just pretend     
I like it that way because it seems I am supposed to? Counting
Fatigue. Susceptibility. Tiny cut over right eye. Riddled with implications
The denoument came with claws on. guileless.crush.stab.molar.rev
ision.limpid.do-nothings.timecode.probability.the.of.tain.makeshift.ob                                                   
verse. The same very move with the same very place yet attended to. line                                                
ar.rear.self-construction.plaited.meager.externals.poke.wade.tinge.your                                                

JUST BEGS FOR RECODING

^{Repetition requires the new.}          It’s not just me that says so. Wander as still life.
The intentional hypothesis sure, but the text writes itself. Auto-mythos. Vagrant
Aspirations. Heavy breathing. Rat burn. Wanting habit but not letting habit
& remaining technically silent on that point. Well worn grooves. Mission creep.
Failure described as abject. Bump under surface that reveals itself to be
A shard of glass once worked up and forced out. minims.gust.response.dis
parity.fisheye. The puncture in punctuation. More of the not said. Queasy verities.                              
It’s like I said before, though never out loud. True enough but you don’t have
To enjoy that at me all the time. gel.interior.itch.louse.regression.path.oh.so.logical.mount
ing.shuns.frailty.compulsion.lacksidaisical.shibboleth.noise.POV.durable.sucker-                              
punch.raison d’etre.mentionables.laughtrack.hard-wired.dissatified.grudge.lump                               
en.encephalogram.noon. Speech at least seems to fill that void in which anxiety                                   
Lurks. More waiting than anything else. Worldmouth embrachure inserted under the skin.

poet JOHN LOWTHER poets from atlanta ga usa but hopes before long to do some from deutschland. HIM runs with the atlanta poets group for as long as there be one. HE book has auskommen but isn't certain about the title, has always wanted to use LUDDITES, START YOUR ENGINES! but it has a checkered history (a curse?) and so he's not sure.

 
 
 
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