Raymond Farr


“Putting On” Face

Soon a fface replaces another
—from “About Face” by Caroline Bergvall

“putting you on”
FACE I dumbkopff

I traffic in FACE s

About you and me
I in sert th need le

All faces r diffrentends
A secret glaring
Face in glass structure
Throwing up

:critters, yr eyes glitter
Among aulde PORN fac s
& moUrn

All FACES are ???s not a ways & a means of streets and thoroughfares

We put awn
FACEeshuss zeus pusses
Enhance ing addic t i’ve ,i’ve a
Lancômbe a ddress
Warrior lipstick utility face
Remonstrates
The remains
Is redundant
FUn
Watch i n g
face
s change accord
ing
To avail
able
LIGHT
Their pea pod power systems move in for a taste
Beyond cruel world
Banjos tak
ing kng qween knights’ fac
es &
(pause)ing
Shit-faced on mead
At war
At that mom en tttttt/this mome n t pre
cisely
A pecu
liar face reap
apeared
The para
De’s faces have past /pa(U)ssed
Intercession City stands up in the face of masterful interc
essors
Studd ed be tween Maybeline cell tower
& be tw een exis
ts

Some some liittle liittle faces’ compact
minimeyes On imp ac t
Shell out a tale
abt
Little little unspacious faces glooming
in de voi d dead
dead faces’
hear
ts

Nimrods’ mirrored shoot i n g bye faceS
Iden
ifeye ident
ical chocolate fibers melting dow n
Disrupt ng surFACES’
FACEs about face s
On dollar bills =
A mob
Lacking any FACE
Not properly
Turned on
Deeming it NEON

:FACE, what FACe in Deus^Rex R_x cld mean more than a face
We turn
& reconsider
That of a fellow
Western
er?
_{:the chocolate clock faces of TIME deus ex machina}
Grow suspiciously
inconsequential
_{inquiring of pauper
‘s FACES: who? & for what length of TIME have we left ourselves un
guarded
a MULE’s FACE awna}
TIME [ex ex
cluding all FAC E S
Mark n g allh OURs
THE END

:[I have faced you, FACE
On many indecent occasions.
The issues were moot.
We discarded each instance
& reviewed each decision
To discard…the wrong face…
The incorrect behavior accorded “OUR” face at that moment…
The improper DREAM /the inadequate breeching…
One Face sans “THE(V)theOTHER” [as any intelligent hman being
Or (wo)man wld]
Never stranger /straw nger
Than wood en oui awl
Accept deathth’sss facesss as ONE
Loomin’ escent at cross
streets?

:FACE it!, yr faceS cling
mist aching pOEms. Four Videos
Manipulate ob v us
Platitudinous pieces of ochitecture. (e…c…r…i…t Op era
Strew n A bout yr affronted face. Mirrored in asp ect
A structured element
About FAC
eS’
creation of
Lines between SPACES - - - - -

SPCES etween ines etc copy that
eyesMonitor
a ffface’s plain faces’
other room
Thru fa(S)ces
Thru MOCKing

Matter at a rate
Hitherto corpseless
& UnDEFINED

:she’s absolutely EVERYWHERE
You need to be, FACE (but featureless creature
Displaces dizfaces displaced faces
Like MUZAK

Her grumbling slit-pusses slit verboten by rot e
He r deck of cards’ FACE

The one launch
er of

A thou

A thou s and she(ips
K ss ng –sem blab
Into thee not h in g that is p lay



Raymond Farr's work has appeared in previous issues of Otoliths and is currently available in Letterbox, Cannot Exist, Cricket On Line Review, BlazeVox2k9, Dusie, Venereal Kittens, & Xstream. Email address & info concerning his free self published chap books is available on his blog.

 
 
 
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