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7/23/2015

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arrive 
Che’s Lounge 
find sun-
puddle chortled 
shiny redheaded 
B. Wright 
sporting sandals. 
ask how 

many freckles.  
B. Wright says 
millions. lifts 
shirt’s tail 
& her back--
sprinkled 
nutmeg. 
B. Wright 

hands me 
a hand-
rolled number, 
tobacco hairs 
spilling. observe 
mechaniz’d bear 
pursuing Antigonus. B. 
Wright writes:  
My (desultory) 
book fails more.  
& that word 
you just used.  
You imposing—you 
impose yourself.  
B. Wright brown coat: 
fur-lined, purple 
buttons.  Emily 
Dickinson tattooed 
on left forearm 
heard a fly 
buzz. paper skin 
sprinkled with nutmeg.  
& no don’t think
look like Vik Shklovsky.
calling myself 

missed. William 
Carlos the Conque—”
“. . .”
humid American mind.  &
how much an epic?  

Fifty, fifty-five?  Per 
square foot, of course.
“. . .”
& dig this, I 

wrote this 
for the goat: 
This darksome goat, 
horseback brown, 
fuzzy scrotum hanging 
down.
Sprung Mediocrity—&
B. Wright hands 

me a hand-rolled 
number, tobacco 
hairs spilling. observe 
mechaniz’d bear 
pursuing Antigonus.
B. Wright writes: My 

(desultory) book 
fails more.  
& that word you 
just used.  You 
imposing—you 
impose yourself. B. 
Wright, you—actress 
breathing B. 
Wright writes & B. 
Wright writes 
& that word you 
just used. You 
imposing—you impose yourself.”
B. Wright speaks[1] 

another sort I 
maintain. poet, make 
me desire to do 
the MAKEITNEW of MAKEITUSED. B. 
Wright, where’d you 
get those little red shoes?
B. Wright 

write writing 
too: Oh, I’m 
the antennae 
of the species all right.  
I write: Arrive at Che’s 
Lounge only 
to find sun-
puddle chortled 
shiny redheaded B. 
Wright wearing sandals.  
Ask her how many 
freckles her body has. B. 
Wright says millions.  
Lifts her shirt’s tail 
like someone sprinkled 
her skin with nutmeg— B. 
Wright, I hear, sells 
hot-dogs at the 
ballpark in Tucson.   
—B. Wright writes: B. 

Wright, your brown 
coat next to me: 
fur-lined, purple 
buttons.  Emily Dic--


[1] B. Wright speaks: “Ahe mehrmoor thoo th houls wndoh yo eetneder poignth ov th rehkord—thoo th szlachpahlm h.r yojr berethslyce wihn thoo th defphasinbereth takerd neithernt p.n stahck th nood hjope et es sawry bereth rimouldid.  ‘fhor luhve of th fhibré’ . . . kondoos mhe whunimbrase wit yoo.  Vehrmelleon r.g whunst.r, a ph.nest.r whith richenessmeld.

“Charerhampes mattod whun ower whalk, plezhor o levin bereth thoo l. th shandalere, liddel l.f l. spaddre o whork ahnd lase.  (Sahd gud-b. m.ferendes, chompinaros ov m.l.r.f, thoo yhor shohrt deskobhal: ahnd m. ahnd ch th t.cheeng nker ov thoo th wirrldaly ov th ohldsoret m.. rimaigns thoo th sopberring bereth rhippd fharohm yhor zenteans.)  Philgerem ahnd sterongaly l..t ahnd en phondenes, thoo figs, thoo th strrahtizf.d smhoke ov a n.vle.  Yhes pulasingu a sqw.r . . .

“B. yhor intent b.b.b.. breath see the sickness wehen h.t thoo th pain dhanses seceding icely remhind verses ov sitee ov th c.p.  Pig.  & she drank her water from a dirty trough    likewise, this makes for the making of something, how do you feel about obscenity?”



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Priscilla Lee link
12/16/2015 07:35:01 pm

I really enjoyed this poem.

Pris
http://peculiardoll.wordpress.com/

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