May Scraps

'toast me just once in the local anaesthetic'
William Dickey:The poets farewell to his teeth

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to jump up / as a dog
amongst all this drill sound.

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YELLOW DUST

it's not that there's nothing to see
so much as you can't see it.
buildings barely exist,
are mostly unanchored
-unless nearby
('useless beauty')

the welder's morse code
from across the tributary.

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I feel like Einstein in these shoes
(meaning: not having to choose each day)

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Why not write an ekphrastic piece
about the Seoul subway exit guide,
the permanently running
red& blue figures /
our need to escape the present

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the frank industriousness of children

(but)

the maternity ward closed for eternity

(for me)

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CATCHPHRASE

"A" says (of Humphrey Bogart)
I think he had a tv show.
"N",of Sweden-
Swiss live there.
in the bright sunday rooftop
glare we chuckle, amazed.
fetch another beer.

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at the immigration office with
other migrant workers;
difficult to think of yourself
as such when you speak
'the desired language' have
white skin which is mostly
pink except at work when
it is made manifest
in so many gestures
meetings: the opposite
of kindness

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JASON'S PLACE

Borges in the bathroom with Bloom

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PUBLIC HOLIDAY

The purblind carp mouths indolence
on the sleeve of the foreigner
who has yet to find a foreign restaurant

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CONTEMPORARY JOURNALISM

What constitutes F.Scott Fitzgerald's
sign of a first-rate intelligence:
'still functioning withcontradictory
ideas held in the mind'
-the use of intellect to denigrate
intellect?

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The hills are accordioned between brief stories of the hills.