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Joshua Martin


Sequence of Carved Flexing Vertebrae

Only SeA SQUIRT    >>>   cuttings
                    cloud       /      verbose       /
                                                  less FeRtIle
            lands, directed,
TeLl           TaLe,
                              BONES <<<,
               captured                 time table……….

Asexually replicated stems:
                                       TrUnKs, acorns::
                           SHOOTING SPREE
                                                      [!] [?] [!]

Back against forage - - - sparse Bette Davis
                                             variety - - -
                                  pillar of suggestive milk,
                                  forelimbs indicate squiggles.

         News unearthed     ,      geometric
                       []   []   []   []   []   []   []
               , cave
of                      all           directions ::: canopy :::
                             aggressive survival techniques
                             replicate mixed generic suffering.

Lateral hooting STOCK    >>>   still life propaganda,
                                             machine that kills
                                             ruins.



Degraded Index Finger Stamina Machine

F   E   E   D   B   A   C   K
   l               p           l
   o              o           o     
   o      /       o     /     o
   p              l            p
+                                 +
                =
    INTERVENTION
                          [context],
package stifled foundling
                               [each QUARTER
                                gains a
                                suggested
                    POPULATION
         d
          e
           c
            r
             e
              a
               s 
                e.
       Exertions compel
                          IN-SERVICE
                    friendships,
             lip                    teaching
                        & patent
          leather                      academic
sTuFFeD w/ sea kelp,
                             [analysis shows
                               smears]        /
CAN                                             NOT
           a
           d
           j                                                    
           u        s                       
           s        c 
           t         r
                     e
                     e
                     n.



Viscerally Likewise Ranked as Thriving

Twisted paper tossed across millennium
resembling cigarettes suffering necessary multiplications
as if a condition of power rejects sparkling prose
forsaking all that a nailed coffin repeats,
                                       privately tethered
                                       & humorously
                                               POLITE : : :
               [next INTERVIEW,
                     a quickening of thought].
Factual                   emotional                 scribblings
            understate                  released                    appointments.
     /                    [GUESTS relieve themselves]
                                   / Distortions of ultimate
                                     zoological uncertainty / .
Revelations
           of Topsy-Turvey interactions
                    [integrated], forbidden skull cracking
                                         ambitions. [It so happens,
unfolded in an allegorical posterity,
    almost NO figure could cure
    personalities. ]          /   Fourth-FLOOR
                                          costumed dancers
                                          bleed fearful hours,
                             drunken amateur bands
                             wearing ringing telephone sangria
                 , police huddle between gravestones
                   singing dramatic lectures of commemoration.
/ Pleas
      FROM a SuRnaMe! [
                            when joined to become a friar],
             mild HoMaGe:
                                     an economic circumstance.



Special Limitations

Each leap to challenge myth
                        / wandered interspecies /
              your society stinks,
        Monsieur Tank closes Rank
around pounding bombardments.
                                  & you act out
                                  resistance
                                  from w/in.
                     & your heels clap
                     like seldom evaporated
                     thighs.                    All
envy muscles
& little position that an
                                artifact can MaKe.
             Absent the airline
             itself.
                    Your norms are
                     defined as leadership
                     despite their destructive
                                               qualities.
        & the sphere of
        assumptions
                          you USE to explain
                          sex points
                                         TOWARD
                                 imperialism.

Colonial explosions screaming Santa Claus
                                               / sure, there is a NeVeR /
                           & an always / & your demand
                                                  to be a treaty.



‘roused from stagnation’

          at BALANCE, where
practicing                       a barbershop system
                   , earlier
                     computational competitions
            = genius isn’t a CHARM =
>
  “what justifies a foundation merit?”
                                                        > ,,, .

          Dip
ping          stews
                         without execution
            , AN analysis, but exploring
sidelines      - - -     All Responsibilities
                               are SELF-DESTRUCTIVE !
                                                                  !   !   ! - - -
Denial does reject
voluntary        s   p   a   c   e.
                                      By bus,
                            abducted within PUBLIC buildings
                       , every managed MeAns of
                                           production can
                                                         wither into an
               AFTERNOON
         nap.



Double Train Wreck Homage

Outward store,
                 front = signage
       BuRsT,
            ing FuLl of
titled fists accumulating
                              climates:::
               TalK,
                    TaLk, TALK, & more trading
                     than pimento promises.

SOON
    or lighter than a spork
    turning TaIl,
                     hold FORTH all that
                     Quick=
                             sand can withhold
from lover
questing
         YOUTH
                  hostage. Couple
                                recalculating
                                commute,
grown & hung beneath
paradigmatic apartment
                           BuIldInGs,
             shoes provoke
             BOOK  =  trumpets  =
::: Re-
       BREATH / Re-
                             BANISHED
, homework sees the SuN
& cheerful biographical
                                  Turncoat.


Hitherto, milk in the morning ::: [gradations / STOPS]

Whereabout of sulfur
                , As-
                    SLEEP,
         massaging      inward      SPIDER
                                   that                   has
                         a PaIl…
     instead                          Fundamental
                               cultural gardens ---

            [End
                   in A source],,,
…                                      /
                       converging DuAl
                                , could FiLL a Polyglot
                                                   city
               ,   IN
                      & [ON] the
hill                    ---          which later corresponds
                             & wipes
                                            AwAy[
         quite &
                    written
                              , in departure
            , then ArOuND     ,     then     BeGiN
:::::
                “Irregular sensations who thinks
                 & wanders 16th abstraction that
                 expands inhabited space.” >>>>

SCRUTINY --- dreamed --- cosmos
                   intersecting     w/     absences
--- OLD
         , all        SoUght
auditory
                & Exerts                & intensified
     to                       heave
           a WHISPER
                        :::::
                             “Atmospherics napping w/o
                               topical echoes shimmering
                               through notational paradox.”
     This
          , less a Speculation
                                     Teased AS it LAGs.     


Joshua Martin is a Philadelphia based writer and filmmaker, who currently works in a library. He is the author of the books automatic message (Free Lines Press), combustible panoramic twists (Trainwreck Press), Pointillistic Venetian Blinds (Alien Buddha Press) and Vagabond fragments of a hole (Schism Neuronics). He has had numerous pieces published in various journals including Otoliths, M58, Don’t Submit!, Ygdrasil, RASPUTIN, Ink Pantry, Nauseated Drive, and Synchronized Chaos. You can find links to his published work at joshuamartinwriting.blogspot.com.
 
 
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