t(r)epid

ask. don't ask.
tell. leave
the words
where the words
wait. who is
approaching on
approach. encroaching.
all the daylight anyone
could want is this.
now. loosely trans
lated from spun
darkness.

the past few months

well, silence is painterly and wishful of expression, the cadre of incantations of speech and written word melees for ingenuity, once abated, on scroll, the commonsense, the fabrication, the iffiness gone to sleep and crisp appeal. where is crisp appeal? anyhow, to edify a greeting would be cosmic, and reading dependant coca cola, the impression derived from albert camus, wiling fantastic debts of mirages we live over. one settlement on a boring station near line's end, is happiness' returning.

DAMAGES


Chapter 6


Retrofit swallows provocations fringe surrendering festers denounced penetrates goldbricking whipping preacher flagellant incarnate buttress cloisters monopoly innate alms dreams negations mansions.

Intercourse saddles distinctions refrains peddling untrammeled conning stormed mouthpieces minimum ruptures boundless brouhaha pretensiousness strokes.

Streakers fleshpot pavement microphone pillages statutory frenzy inviolate stomachs relics.

DAMAGES


Chapter 5


Revealed situational contusion decomposition confessionals commodify creativity chalked gentility alliteratively corrected confetti mechanics memorials anecdotes hounds poetics cuddly fecund instinctively deliquent.

Terrains ephemerality detractors unchains prerequisites disclaimers supine indignation degrees breasts anonymous extremists similies bitterness leaflets.

Harlequin inversion thug gooses peroxide luxury toothless inscriptions showstoppers graffiti.

caressives

prepostery leans vintage-ward
I have supposed indigenous
nutrients bespeak you or
a qualified result emerges

half immersed in limerick
or tall-boy sugarbowl
or something emanative
like the touch clock

blasphemy to wit your shoulder
as a new wood lanky like
and blood blond like
the vantage point this

young full tree may
register in me as though
this has to have been
true again just as morning . . .

DAMAGES


Chapter 4


Conscious superman doubt captions isolation cracks spectacles leisure promises comprising dissolved trademarks spinning listening syndromes ignores larval screeches wilderness crapping pronouncements.

Insurrection cryptic masturbates whorls spun midnight referentials crates reversible allowances altars overcome fantasy occupation revival.

Rigorousness quilts glorified monsters haunches sawdust lightning cartoons rockets jam.