Volodymyr Bilyk


P(hosphorus) R(oentgen) Parts 1-18

1
Penguins.

ABBBBAABAAABBABAABBABABAAABAAAABBABBAABA
AABBBABAAABAABABAABA

detached cry at the tin bowl:
echo — quells,
inane meek flush appears
: gray glow...
wave hand kindly ,

Maybe
hear some things...

...
be curious enough to ask
if there is a formula.

shed tears
inside out.

"blank stare, wink-wink"

ABBBBAABAAABBABAABBABABAAABAAAABBABBAABA
AABBBABAAABAABABAABA

"off"
(is a line).
in the haze,
tongue claps — offensive.
(Smoke
shimmers.)
sad.

mountains laughing
, sobbing.
listening to
hair rash...

nothing-nothing...
quietly
rains

("squirm, wince, flinch, shudder")

tremendous
shadow falls.
a few touches
here and there...
the roar...:

“What?
“Nothing.”
“Oh, yes. Right.”

ABBBBAABAAABBABAABBABABAAABAAAABBABBAABA
AABBBABAAABAABABAABA

craggy fog
wracks
improbable
squawk wobble.

whatever smells that way...
throes additional sizzle...sigh,

so boring...

ABBBBAABAAABBABAABBABABAAABAAAABBABBAABA
AABBBABAAABAABABAABA

boxing flip-flap
fuzzy cough —
clanging
hops of wight lame
— knee jerks,
m ore like bobs...

Listen to these lost and
useless notions...

ABBBBAABAAABBABAABBABABAAABAAAABBABBAABA
AABBBABAAABAABABAABA

blight,  tight fist,

elbow
groan
(great!)

terrible
wisps and skimps
— puff,

tainted
lips
cheer...

curdle curves cuddle.
sour clatter:
neat vexation.

ABBBBAABAAABBABAABBABABAAABAAAABBABBAABA
AABBBABAAABAABABAABA

table
slowly
tossed
— indecent flight ends with an impact
— broken pieces look like abstract action figures...

what a marvel!

(wind and  breath
get into a fight)

hideous  
quake,
eyes toot.

gasp.
back matters.
skews a bit
definite  gust
kicks the cheeks
chin  jigs
with a sound of a hiss.

dung aside
booms.


***
2
never thought you can wear a hat like that...
it is perplexing to say to least
that tinglin'...  mysterious
— 'cause you only got an indigo sky quake malaise
creeping on the surface from the inside
and an alligator heart beat
and that skull sax feather
and that crossbones lightning glimpse in your eyes
shucks...

and you can pour me that
what i knew was blue
and the sun comes up fencing rays against my chest...
— Smooch...

hold on

take me into my shoulder
by this song so hard
cold lonely bit busted
but you're a trombone hammer gone away
been crude before
and now it is not
but sad shriek doubts wind....

hold on

Rainbow again
see the window ' down in my hair
careful red dreams so hot necktie cries
Sweet — breath sublime
mamboing "huh" hook
buttonhole down
thumbs freezing dancing...

on and on

Pretend you slash kiss halfway through
that melody says clap
glance nothing pop
and the roaring cough heaves the dress up
wishing more to come
but nothing knocks out longing...

awkward wavering faltering stiff irresolution


***
3
goad spurs a thought jog.

elephant,
spider,
rhinoceros,
penguin,
killer tomato and lepus

— concurrent, moving
on a diverging diamond
six-lane highway...

still enough room to waltz tornado


***
4
anguish:
thumb clapping palm —
abstract fervour,
gob blank — "dash".

"Laughing opaque":
intimation wind;
tarnation gust.
— "Nil" kink
— nudge...
TILT: sebaceous blast yoke
Et.

twisting eddy:  
queasy gist beats hollow apparition
reckoning "vacuous dubiousness"....

Vile nub heartbeat hammers tad
Thinking "Nothing Solid"
— "dulcet"; Laughing...

mordant vex veer
startling gnarl
chutes chuckle dither;
Finger snap:
blare
— effervescent blistering
vociferation pinch warp  


***
5
naught
that vanquished the awkward,
a solemn flat-line,
thought to be a cliffhanger...

...that particular kind
of silence
— where the response should be...

this lingering folly,
a vapid contortion of sorts -
written off nastily
while longing for else
on a whim of spelling it out.


***
6
Ennui:

enormous enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous ENORMOUS Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous enormous enormous Enormous Enormous Enormous enormous enormous enormous enormous enormous enormous enormous enormous enormous enormous enormous enormous enormous enormous enormous enormous enormous enormous enormous enormous enormous enormous enormous enormous. enormous:

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cold cold cold cold cold cold cold cold cold cold cold) cold, cold, cold, cold, cold. cold. cold. cold. cold. cold. cold. cold;

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7
Crippling Self Doubt And A General Lack Of Self Confidence

Should Have Should Have

Lost none — So So

An Idea of Canoeing
Part Of The Noise — Volcano
Rolling Thunder Murmurations
Crush Haunted Touch
Too Sweet

Windy smile

Floaters — Gloria
Discerned itch

Horns and Trumpets erupt

Standing still
Ossified
Dancing Inside
Washed Out Face up
Many Clouds

Stillness
Thought Provoked
Abracadabra
Splash
Volcano
Forsaken Turning
Azure Blue — Crimson Red

Erratic Motion
lumps backwards off to void


***
8
Chair Person work crowing airplane
or collection baby creaking played grinding
gum or flying crying truck
— excelsior!

Mystery intensifiers played out of turnip
effervescence

Towel blowing nothing
Nails the muse tune
gums bleed tacitly
Low nose exhaust the detrimental dripping
silence sniffing
Tse Tse Fly — does Braaam! and goes beyond

Door screaming of clipping drill mower
Dental beeping:
wry zigzag — pipes crying
nothing expedient

Baffling gewgaw surd — sappy
Koala opaque sough hoot
Peals quake thwack
Dolphin nostrils nebulous Duck

Phantom squealing
sinus tussle Choke
insurgent
wombat Doom
Loud neat Sparkle,
wink-wink snoring
cheeks burst
hippopotamuss roar

Tart Tart Tart

Mosquito Rooster floors frequency
Dog Loud
nails Garbage Sounds
buzzing smacking elevator
chirping other honking slew
slamming the silence of alarm

nails chewing tune
scraping floor broadway
barking elevator
roundabout arabesque sigh

Rooster horn stab
Loud buzzing — leaf blowing "Orff"
or Door off truck —
Lawn played Cat nose snoring

silence soaring — "Aaaaaaaah!"
ebbing
toot — bazoo yap
gingerly chop chewing gum
hideous gulp gasp
— hinges
tremendous knock

creaking
flower

o-o


***
9
Hopscotch Bellybutton — absorbing ephemeral contradiction.
Knuckle crawling chill —
— tornado. Chisels hollow blaze
pinching luminous nil...

Abrasive
Lightning drone devoid of perilous bliss
Flattens nasty compassionate thunder
Charge —
lemon muzzle hectic sound:
Phasing cuddly.

Suave Domino combative glitter —
Frantic parcels frame the knot;

Kettle whistle — farewell chord.

Comatose flinch:
— eerie

Detached Gargantuan
Pigeon in a bearskin
Spells bitter guzzling curve

Faint teeth dancing
Appalling
Crunch thumb crisp
Mirror Ox
Flip
murky flutter apparition —
Gasp

Pony Bawling "Horseradish!"
Ray Feigned Bash — Crimson
Awkward misshapen Lollipop harpoon missing
Just a little...

Gurgling

Nebulous bottom bludgeoning:
Blunt Banana smoke blip.
— graceful frightening blush — foul
Freckled cloud rattling tremor,
wink-wink — Zero

gibberish pounds sweat drops
slap the Guts — Kibosh.
percussive pearls —
bats hideous blank... perplexing hop
atrocious rain - stunned grin.

Blackout.


***
10
now a much much begging bit
hand letters of the bar to him
she bore lightly the spiked and winding seahorn
that he never did then

false one
we had better part so clear
so good
he never heard since love lives not a clinking voice
ask lambert he can tell you

too much trouble only
i was expecting some money
either hold on the silent bluehued flowers

pike hoses hoses after after after after
her gliding lips
head music lost charms
begging shakespeare said before
a shoulderblade bit of a the bar to the tune
not off to believe
too much to handle
besides his lips
lost to now
letters he read
off awhile ha ha

lost listen lonely now::
archly aching beat beat beat


***
11
lackadaisical sigh
— draws particular bamboozle

in the head:
elbow forest grows

— plash of the drone,
giggling — slap /
improper bellow wallows.

sudden jump of the hair —
bittersweet feel,
murky, amusing — like a clam blubber
knuckle tick tock
— knock-knock chop.

Then — glitter bizarre —
guzzling bliss,
jagged blow
— thought of the sweat rain...

jerk hoop —
flap,
beehive blurt.

blemish sound. negative
.


***
12
bubble lays down,
 covers itself with a sheet
— goes to sleep. but how?

Clack
 — elaborate blue. missing
frightening smooth, heaving blush.

crab attacks flowers. savage cuts.

rays of light dance around.

Fog is coming to dissolve it all.

empty place. And then a hill starts growing,
swelling more and more — and then
it turns into a volcano — huffy, perplexing
timid stillness
.


***
13
Bug
in a Bulb
Bugles 'bout  
"Bulge" on "Buggy" -
as it       
Bumbles,
Burbles,
Burps
and Bumps the dolly song:

"Button button
Button button button button
Button button - pole...pop!
pole pop...pole pop...pole pop...

Butt on button
Butt on button  butt on button
Butt on button -
buss...bah!
pillar tickles rear...

butt on butt on butt on butt on butt on — "

...the rothko vibrant void
inside the johns slap
- sits tacitly,
down with eager zeal

— bunks then rapidly...
and bubbles come and go...

but — wait a minute:
"plop, plop"
(unexpected,
with no splash)

fluff sets forth,
manoeuvres  carefully,
with certain kind of buzz behind 
to mind the twist of eyes
and bout of echo in the noses caves.

oh, tush!

mere cloud flushes, fades.

That's how the odd nips
That's how the odd nips
That's how the odd nips
Not with a knock but a bellow


***
14
Bore to Rave. — Eh Bah!
Bore to Rave. — Eh Bah.

Bored Beard
Bears the bee
With the whistle by the Bar of the Bored Beard

Beard Bears the Bat
and
Bats the Bough...

Board Raves.
Rays of the mushroom cloud
Board the bored bears on...
Eh, Bah...

Bored Bears roar the Bach.

Board Drools.
tars the bee
With the bee whistling
Whiz whirr whiff
BOO!
Bah...
Bored Beard
Bears the Bat
and
Bats the Bored Bears

Board grows a Beard...
Bears sigh...
Beard curls...
Bears roar Bach.

Bored Bears tear the Beard.


***
15

Bar Mot Juste

eh? ... No
nothing?... eh? ... No now .... No
....

Why? ... .... Why? ... What's wrong?

...no ... Or .... Dry

at last .... Eh?
now
no ....  no now  .... ....
....  the end.
.... ? ...
....? ... ....
On . off ....
.... the end ....  it ...  ....  

....  yet ....  .... ' ' '
.... too ....  ....  ....  ....  why? ....  ....

None
it .... now .... .
now? ...now? ... ? ...

...  ... Ever think of that? ... Eh? ...

out....  still .... there ...stinking  ....  

....  .... ? ...  
....  on .... No .... Not ....  .... ? ...  .... ....
....  ....  ....  .... ! ...  ....  ....  ....  ....
....  .... now ....  .... ? ...
....  ....  ....  ....  .... Isn't it??
... ....  ....  ....  .... Why ? ...
....  ....  .... It  .... Nearly  .... stilled ....
.... ? ...  ....  ....  .... tired squeezing ....
the end .... stop ... the end .... Imagine  .... Ever think of that? ....  ....
....  ....  .... On . off ....  .... Eh??
...? ...? ... ....  ....  ....  ....  ....  
....  .... Silence  .... ducks  ....  
.... '' ....  .... Eh? ... ? ...  ....  
.... .

why .... Even .... But ....  ....  .... Kinder
.... .... More .... Better .... .... .... .... .... Yes .... .
But  .... You know  ....  ....  ....  ....  ....
....  ....  .... .... ? ... Eh? ...  ....  ....  ....  ....  .... ? .... ? ...  ....

.... No more .
? ... ? ...  .... '
' .... ? ... Not interested? ... Well ....   .... ,
....  ....  ....  ....  ....  ....  ....  ....  silence ....  stinks ....  ....  
....  ....  .... '.'
....  ....  ....  ....  .... Ah! ...  ....  .... ....
....  ....  ....  
....  ....  ....  
....  ....  ....  
....  ...  
....  ....  ....  
.... ? ... Eh? ...  ....  .... now ....  ....  
....  ....  .... ....   .... .... ? ... Eh? ...  ....  ....  ....  ....
.... Eh? ....  ....  ....  .... Anyway ....  ....  ....  ....  .... ? ...  ....  .... Now 
....  ....  ....  ....  ....  .... '' ....  ....  ....
.... ''  ...  ....  ....  ....   .... ....  .... ? ....  ....  ....  
....  .... ? ...  ....? ...  ....  ....  ? ... ? ... Eh? ...  ? ...  ...  .... Eh?


***
16
scrap bit end
— expletive exquisite echo, rudimentary;

morsel — void; soap slide.
lobe, bed, ply
passes close, further thin backwash$
carom aborted.

neck tilt — lather flashes//
yerk loop — 
nod (offish) — below more  frigid lash: 
peep screw...

"arid, tedious..."
(pop)

cheeks wrest,
"bob///" -'seesaw... duck!

(blush)
nah!


***
17
blissfully grotesque pest
beyond 
bare bleak blushing...

dazzling hogwash.

repeat greatest continuous ought-hum.

fin pricks the brick, 
expressively.
duck fizz, 
sprites splash,

smooth 
barbwire twine -
neck atrocity 

glitter...
sick squeal...

Shh-bleep.


***
18
Blip - A Sudden Chill 
Skronk CHOO-poh 

ha ha: PPP
- en uuuuu
buttonhole pop...pop!
that melody - abstract

Gurglin'... ? ...? .... .... ...
Erratic parcels hollow blast .... '

pinch:
O
It's It It It
Fi – IIUII bmbmbm
Tschabalala

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzp! 

***

Volodymyr Bilyk is a poet from Ukraine. He follows Ezra Pound's "Make It New" and considers Pink Fairies song "Do It" to be a quite adequate description of his artistic intentions. Second edition of his book Roadrage is available at Zimzalla. Gerry Ha Ha is available at Timglaset. His latest book Detournement Crusade is available at Redfoxpress.

 
 

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