Sunday, October 7, 2012

August 20 - September 17 ENGL 4210 Chicken Scratch


Junk Yard Quotes
Down to such a fine art
the gently-er of the open road
wash behind your ears twice a day
simply lack
pursuits we're looking for
I wanted something gummy and fruity. All they had were the stupid gummy worms. It was miserable I had to chop the worms.
To another building
lock the door, start shooting
you'll change the way you do something to save your life
the behavior of those young people
reach and audience that doesn't listen
wake and sensible after tragedy
before a dark cloud
you can't be tired when you're dealing with someone else life
you can't embarrass me but I can embarrass you
shot gun above the car- you don't listen to her but me
an apology alone is painful
The how and the why
The essence of writing is re-writing
wordy dude
you realize some words are not necessary
The filthy words that are always filthy we've lost so many freedoms in the last few years. it's bogus.
humanity allows people to say good bye before we die
you can't say that what's happening to free speech
different strokes for different folk
everyone knows everything. I know everything.
why spend mine when I can spend yours
While we spoke of many things
Hulett and abandon bulding
You ruined the tip of her banana
I am tired of color
no adventure stopping
Seduction by conveying a message
CLAIM of social responsibility
achieve a "good will"
No smoky mirror; work in good faith to benefit
Just fell up a flight of stairs, gravity be damned!
I really owe all of my ninja training to these guys. and Oprah.
Then I get back to my car and realized I leafy my keys in the door
I guess I'm just a one women kind-of guy
That's a deep drive for some undies
Make sure they are thong style my fav
Cozumel, Mexico
I can put 16oz into my boot
2 speaker cords, extension cord, tape, scissors, zip ties
That broad looks tough...she looks like you could take her on a boat. she looks like she could lift some nets of fish.
My uncle with a pacemaker heart: I just tell everyone that I am a white boy with no rhythm so they game me some. (I love his positive outlook on life and his funny face gestures)
I blame Hooked on Phonics for drug dependency in America's youth... it's a gateway addiction.
Playing corn hole is waaaay harder than it looks... It's a game of great dignity... and respect!
He looks like a playboy? What? Like a good looking guy that plays girls... Oh haha <-just a conversation for myself to remember
Eye broccoli
Holds her notes from good five bars, musically that is pretty lazy
in the dark between them
festers and ferments
cats bring them out teethed
barely holding
they even work through your pockets
better than normal
even in your imagined problems
were filming a reality show
it's like a tickle party
Fact: The inside of a butterfly is orange.
PLEASE COMMENT!! For every 1 load of laundry how many dryer sheets are you supposed to put into that load?
*sigh* Just realized Florida looks like a penis. I'm living in the Penis State.
Blood work and doctors visits will soon be the death of me..I think doctors are secretly in a league of blooding sucking vampires!
I’m not explaining things to people anyway
I drunk half of it black because I’m an Adult
I miss my dirty rice
Food for the poor
We're all insane the same people
everyday we're dying and I am dying to die
saw a boa kill a rabbit on discovery earlier today. It must suck living in nature.
Somewhere between Miami and Cozumel is not a bad choice



IMPROVS

My Last Duchess—Robert Browning
Improv 1

Together with point

A long, narrow mark or band:
“I can’t draw a straight line,”
his absent hands remind me
the corresponding approach to life
rings, ties knot, not around recycled
print “let’s take care of it as a team,”
because that’s what we are until
carefree, arizona; happy, texas; nirvana,michigan
the back of a card he found
where old English ideals survived
but in truth triumph is not guaranteed,
100% un-finished business guarantees
stand or be positioned to wash behind
your ears twice a day, down to a fine art
of liaison; pursuits we’re looking for
the gen’teelly of the open road
interlacing two turns of wrist busy
burying the fingers’ end,
shelve it in a closet
boot gathered dirt
malicious adoration
--“to live in hearts we
leave behind is not to die,” I said
adieu adieu makes logic.














When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer—Walt Whitman
Improv 2

Typhoons Pour Over Poor Manila, August 8 2012

When I heard nothing from the baby clung
to her mother’s lungs, the striking support
of the railing no longer permit off-limit guard
to protect her family’s greatest asset – time
kept quite in her infant eyes that no longer haze
light golden brown but instead spindle and swell
into water fractals, dirty cultivated rice, and the sick trend
of PARENTHOOD : the reply of a sixteen year old girl
to force extended arms around the shoulder of a boy
who could not provide symmetrical support but grant
debts that can’t be ready: “prepared for a hurricane.”





Crossing Brooklyn—Walt Whitman
Improv 3

“The tide that left and never came back”

“And Hansel said to Gretel,” Fact:
the inside of a butterfly is orange,
it quirts the shape of the coastline
controlling the directions needed to find
home, never satisfying the almost equal,
the gravitational force of other needs,
itemized purchase of powdered milk ,
shoes, and tile from hours to years
crumble the way home.
The sea it twists into accurate accounts
boating the English, Dutch, and the African
pygmy hedgehog — forced to believe their wild
or put into a state of responsible breeders
and propelling handlers of “FREEDOM”
a fear to question predators — especially
the “regime type,” the composed bodies
of opinion leaders, the ones who Jaw
When things are as dirty as the stripper scandal.





Because I Could Not Stop for Death—Emily Dikinson
Improv 4

Pregame Procedures

(when the well-ordered meet for war)
They meet in Mexico
the city of yachts, rapid growth,
and world-class agave tequila.

The girls, they mirror mascara
and the boys, they con-troll
step-by-step the bomber
claim exclusive international right

larger in size and honey the nose
two-sided, masks real relation-
ships “forward” grid tally
and equipment limitations.







I Heard a Fly Buzz—When I Died —Emily Dikinson
Improv 5

Note to self:

Improv writing like Emily
Dickinson I heard is
A proven difficult task, yes
It is quite difficult to do.

I am sitting here, library
Frustrated cream cheese chives
Feed my belly, yummy
I think to myself this is end.




(Ohps I did this Poem twice…)


I heard a Fly buzz- when I died-
The Stillness in the Room
I felt the air freeze- in my throat-
and lung a penny tomb.
The retina fail- and then the rest
a casket soon consume
the news is truth- a child
having not yet touch- the gas stove.
The beans are tall-but not enough-
to rise up out the soot
so the baby learns nothingness
while flagged- sat by the tomb







Hap—Thomas Hardy
Improv 6

If, for some reason, I were to live
from a fractal of time, wandering talks of lace satin,
know it be a nightmare-- the un-learned
that existed but, never truly jump the plane.
Then forgive my predetermined vagina
steeled by the sense of ire unmerited;
Half-eased by the perks of floral decent.
Had the "why" been answered
but instead X scar me pretty
And curse the man who wish to kiss.
-- Crass my sympathy, my hand over the sick baby's forehead
And leave me in the South American jungle
bliss-es sung softly in Spanish lullabies.





(Ohps I did it again [not a reference to Brittney Spears] Poem twice…)

[I Just changed some of words from Thomas’s piece, a less inspiring night]


IF but some browsing poorman would call to me
From in these tough times, a disease: "Thou suffering thing,
there is no known that sorrow his ecstasy,
That he love's loss is my hate's profiting!"

Then would he rattle, and venom sting, and die,
wither by the sense of break unmerited;
Half-eased, too, that a Black Face of War
Had tipped and coined his tears he shed.

But not so. How leaves like the autumn,
And why unblooms the best hope ever sown?
--Crass Casualty obstructs the sun and rain,
And dicing Time for gladness casts a moan....
These purblind Doomsters had as readily strown
Blisses about my pilgrimage as pain






The Convergence of the Twain—Thomas Hardy
Improv 7

Yellow Dresser in my Room
----I
--What sits in front of me
--a box to which no key
my favorite compostable sock, to plea.

----II
--Amarillo pretty I stare
--the pull draws my iris fare
it’s a vintage demeanor plains prayer.

----III
--Rigid above compartments
--it deserts shadow line fence
And I won’t know what I’m talking about.

----IV
--It is not long before
--the stare is broken from core
my eyes are lazy falling fast poor

----V
--Three cells to the right
--three cells going night
There are nine sliding boxes to kite

----VI
--Victorian inspired handles
--look nothing like the candles
the lit paint it settles placid brand-les

----V
--My head is tilt right
--concentrate down sight
The foot curls by the toe quiet and tight.

----VI
--Second down and second right
--pulls the handle, now a freight
Inside the door something is stocking tight.

----VII
--Elenore Rigsby meets the eye
--If only I knew what she look like
Always wearing her invisible crown.

----VII
--I can’t even pretend
--I’ve lost move bar tend












Pied Beauty—Gerard Manley Hopkins
Improv 8

The Difference

Glory be to the woman in the crypt SUV--
who wait on my rhythm for my return, which
was never mine. A gesture greater than clasp
hands waiting on something to happen.






Adam’s Curse—William Butler Yeats
Improv 9

My Curse

I bring back to life.
those that have died in moments.
I magnetize needs, while
trying to satisfy my own
and I'll feel complete, yet
dissatisfied all the same.

I think about ways to disappear
in curiosity of losing electricity.
Can electricity be forgotten?
I think about these things.

It's easy to talk to strangers,
make friends, but when you talk
too long, it is easy for friends
to become strangers.

Could you walk the earth
and never recognize a face?








The Circus Animals’ Desertion—William Butler Yeats
Improv 10

There she is in the air again,
twisting her ankle in ribbon,
Cater-pilling up the satin material
she dances on.

Once again, she's caught my eye
elastic bending her torso as
her hair spirals carmine red, dangle
and she floats with her hands
bough like the willow's wisdom.






Susie Asado—Gertrude Stein
Improv 11

The "sweet" repeats and my head nods
to Susie Asado.

The "sweet" repeats and my head nods
to Susie Asado.

My head rhythms left and right sweet tea.
Sweet tea in the south pocket knives,
it diabetesize the healthy, un-healthy.
Sweet tea in the south drowns not in water
but crystal sugar from a flour bag.
The shifting layers of leaves, leave
out the Southern Belle's manner.








After Apple-Picking—Robert Frost
Improv 12

Wood Chuck

I
The bar it fills with girls and boys
fresh to the open road, identified
with plastic. Their masked ID's,
allow them to no always merge
in pairs through open doors.
Sometimes the zodiac question
spoils their stomach, before
they have the chance to purchase
a Manhattan straight, the "adult"
beverage of class.

II
That little label on the glass
slightly off center, displays
a land-beaver.
It burrows me to think about
rodents representing
drunkards.




Aquainted with the Night—Robert Frost
Improv 13

I have been one acquainted with the night.
I have walked out in rain -- and back in rain.
I have outwalked the furthest city light.

I have seen the sad streets of Angeles City.
I have listen to the un-known child save a life,
"It's written in a book somewhere."

I have followed a hand to paint the stars
that opened my thought and taught me
to stitch steel to the sunflowers petal
so that rain could gather and slide down
the stem, into roots and muscle.

The dirt, the children to play in poverty
will then stand a chance to slice bread
rather than break.



Design—Robert Frost
Improv 14

What Humans are Designed for

Survival of the fit, the fittest, and the pretty,
The un-sourced mouth to say.

The non-webbed hands and toes help
humans drown because some can't swim
in the storm of needle pricked words.
The stubbled legs drive away the tension
of males' and females' breathing hard.

Humans are layered, starting with bones
strengthened by the breast of a mother.
Progress by phases start at the first
bike wreck that scabbed the gut suit.

The gut protecting suit so far advanced
in technology it heals in time, and
recycles skin into dust.


Chicago—Carl Sandburg
Improv 15

I watched a girl sneeze into a panic once,
her head fell forward before it whip back
from gusting winds of pollen, pollution,
and pale finger tips.

From a city chilled by the
she was a city girl, tempered
by movement of crowds,
she inspired.



Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird—Wallace Stevens
Improv 16

Three ways to Draw Obesity

I
Mcdonalds
I’m loving it
Ninety-nine cent meals.

II
Honey Boo Boo

III
The man with an over active
thyroid creasing
the sides of his eyes
trying to shut the floods
of September when his daughter
lived to see him die.



The Man on the Dump—Wallace Stevens
Improv 17

She’s calling again, opening color
her eyes with tactic
fooling me to believe
that girls mind.

When I came home, exhausted
my body found my bed
the pillow soft, crescent
against my cheek.

Ease into an air-state-of-mind
as my eyes heavy in focus
of nothing,
then I drift into natural sleep.

Dancing in the waterfront,
Naples, the air troughs
low, unit, a world force
of criticism creating insecurity
moving “Forward” the man
with the terrifying hand.







The Snow Man—Wallace Stevens
Improv 18

Winter In North Carolina

In bed I lie beside my mother
hearing her voice breathe as she dream
cold.

She unwillingly whispers truths
with her body, she drifts in
between the Egyptian threads
that never fully bleached
in the Magat River.

She refuses to share with me
the logic of her decisions,
but instead, tells me to pray.

So I listen
not to her
bt the skin
of the water.


The Emperor of Ice Cream—Wallace Stevens
Improv 19

Mosquitos

The sweet of the south, the Southern Belles
with their maple scent and fringed Barcelona
cotton waist. Their exposed thighs,
no man can resist the swat
of their Palimino tail.

To Elise—William Carolos Williams
Improv 20

Razor Burns

I traced his jaw, followed the curve
behind his ears, admiring the marble
skin and never losing focus.

Our eyes door shut slowly
as our face closer, blurring
the vision of the comic dots.


The Widows’ Lament in Springtime—William Carolos Williams
Improv 21

In February the fire sleeps
the embers chill and lovers lose.

The flames dance too controlled
instead of burning, burning.


Spring and All—William Carolos Williams
Improv 22

Some nights the words crowd
impolitely disorganized.

Some nights the starts make sense,
in that they move accordingly,
falling unexpectedly, placing before me
the end to conversations.

Those nights I breathe, I breathe
in Spanish lullabies. The R’s roll
rhythm and spice the words
of his grandmothers Cheyene peppers.







Portrait of a Lady—William Carolos Williams
Improv 23

A man of a man, a manly man
does not take pictures,
he lives in moments.
He does not care to share
the territories of his ideas.
He does not prove, unless
on charts or graphs,
but, instead lips passionately
against the ears soft curve
of a woman. He proves
that decisions are swayed,
bough over the river
that many have passed,
failed or kayaked.







The Young Housewife—William Carolos Williams
Improv 24

Jackson

He sits on the stoop across from Ray’s house
until about the time shadows disappear.
In his moment in the sun,
he does not share the color of his skin,
but instead,
borrows the scare crow’s jacket
and straw hat.
He does not humidify
in the South America’s thirst,
he skin salts and defines in wrinkles.
His memoir is difficult to disprove fiction.






This is Just to Say—William Carolos Williams
Improv 25

I have filtered
your eaten
your tounge
still plum

but sweeter
you were probably
surprised
by lunch.

My hands
tight around your tie
softly tugging
the Eskimo face.



The Red Wheelbarrow—William Carolos Williams
Improv 26

Journalist
in a crowd of
twisting tongues
and flying pigs
I created the
sound—silence.
If you get it
right
it’s the best
thing
ever,
get it wrong
and it will taste
like a pecan
shell.








Snake—D.H. Lawrence
Improv 27

Garden Spider

She’s all yellow
sitting by the window pane
threading silk photos,
as if a poor spy
needling the truth
catching the dew
the escaping.
She whispers in your head
the forgotten.
So wise, quite
by the window
patient to move
against the strike
of the wind.


The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter—Ezra Pound
Improv 28

The flower of home
In the morning
When the sun peaks
Just above the old barn.

It annoys my eyes,
Until I blanket my face
And cave under squares
Of downy.

I warm under my mother
And when the sun reaches
The arch of the spinning
Roosters talon, He gives up
And re-coups.

Then I escape the Easter
Greens and yellow
Pastels, inhale the crisp
Cool scent of apple fritters.
I am home, returned home
To what’s real, Cinnamon.


In Station of the Metro—Ezra Pound
Improv 29

Pepper

The segregated south on the television screen,
nosed in irritation.


From the Cantos—Ezra Pound
Improv 30

Across from me, a wooden structure
it displays eleven— captured marks
on a time line. My favorite, a woman
in black and white, in a delicate frame,
captured in her time before wrinkles.
She is looking at something I can not see
My guess is she was looking at the people.
The people scattered across the court yard,
slowly pushing into shoulders, being
screamed out and heard towards the rails,
allowed to bring nothing for the place they’re going.
The place where screams dry into toxins.
People become polluted air in the “Forward” movement.
People rely less on each other and more on machines,
Machines that can not feel their own destruction,
Machines that mix in the air with the dusty
Toxins of brittle hair, unpolished fingers.
The vote is for change and change is happening.









Oread—H.D.
Improv 31

Mcintosh

Placid and untouched
In the morning tears
Stuck to the prickles
The pines of blade
That itch my ankle.




Helen—H.D.
Improv 32

In the summer
When it’s hot
We ride to mountains
Between the blue lines
And the pine
Until we reach
The water
Wrapping and rafting
With neon textured
Donuts, chasing
The little girl
With the silver ribbon
In her frail complexion.
She is crying
Or laughing,
We cannot see
Until the scars
Peel off her face.










The Rear-Guard—Suegfrued Sassoon
Improv 33

The walls are mud, cracking dust
And he can only hear milky static.

His back is arching, preparing to shell
Prepared for walls to collapse and take way.

The recycled air, his lungs prepare
To collapse, shelled under the dirt
Where the dead carcus rest, hidden
From the surface so that no one
View his missing eye.









Hurt Hawks—Robinson Jeffers
Improv 34

He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, in capacity is worse.
The curs of the day come and torment him.
At the distance is a house he does not look at,
He instead observes its surroundings,
The blockage of the bush, the hiding
Behind the avocado green trash bin.
He has focus on everything but the house,
The home he finds comfort in
The place of family. He is broken,
Shards of tank metals in his wrists
Remind him of the day, the day
He fell off the bomb.







The Purse-Seine—Robinson Jeffers
Improv 35

Vanilla Rooibos

I cannot tell you how beautiful the scene is,
And a little terrible, then, when the crowded
Leaves net the wood chip vanilla waste
Because they do not care about our planet
The eighty fives, post consumed in fiber
Bars, cupping and sleeving the thirty fours
To help single the less than original papers
Of subtitles, careful to enjoy extremely hot
Weathers of a breath. Made with only ten
Roasting cups. Ten roasting cups of carasins,
The hybrids the elder go crazy for and
The thirty fours pend to roast.

I cannot tell you how beautiful the scene is,
And a little terrible, then, when the crowded
Silver fish gut innocently across her chest
As she colors like the crayons, unable to trace
The lines. She giggles as the legs stipple across
Her belly in painful laughter.

I cannot tell you how beautiful the scene is,
And a little terrible, then when the crowded
Mouth gaps between the front, a travelers
Lid.
















The Fish— Marianne Moore
Improv 36

Don’t say you weren’t warned.
The frog breaks its own legs to grow
to claw boiling fish evolved to defend
the learned, the strange animal to explode
it’s really true.
Malaysian ants combust
threat (they wait until their enemies are close
before detonating).
 Soldier poison inside their bodies.
 When they sense a threat,
they contract their abs,
and spray poison.



Poetry— Marianne Moore
Improv 37

I tickle inside to know
Fifty years ago you too, joy
In the hula-hoop of words
Dictate the control but, wander
In the imaginings.
I admire you, you and your swift
Subtle charm and humor.
I wish to mimic you
But you dress as a thrift store
Seeker, seeking Rayon felt jacket
To complement the trinket belt.
So I admire to inspire.

A Grave— Marianne Moore
Improv 38

I am brushing my teeth
Looking into the sea,
Taking view of Marianne Moore
Thinking to myself
How the hell do I do that?
I am digging my grave
In stress of this test
Wishing my computer had not died
Laughing at the situation.

I’d like to blade
The stress away but
Do not wish to be
Un-productive.
Instead I protest
I collect the views of others
And water
The breathless, listen to the gargles
And turkey-foot, the noise.
I fight the dirt collecting my the nose
My eyes and swim through.


The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock— T.S. Eliot
Improv 39

Repeat and recycle
Repeat and recyle
Until you get it right.

Listen to the rhythm
Dance with the words
Swim in the Ocean
And follow the light.

Hatch with the turtles
Swim through sand
Avoid screaming beaks
And just keep swimming.

Away from the bars
And the illegal sea grass
Swim until the plankton.
Plank the taste of salty rainbows
Avoid the water smash, until
You find home with the seal
Pitching at decibels
Soothing enough to rock
Sleep.

The Hollow Men— T.S. Eliot
Improv 40

I’m reading into you
Finishing our conversation
Hearing my imagination
And wish I were with you.

Until I remember that I am female
Fate for a life of polished fairytales
Against the printed research, professors,
Prestige with certifications, theories.

I learn for myself.
I believe against odds.
I push through the bruises
And wait for the brass
Painted china to wind, ornate.

I rust on the mantled promises,
Wall-hang in their quality, and
You still refuse to meet
In this valley of dying stars
You avoid speech so the hour
It trembles like my innards chest
And I kiss a good.


Tetelestai— T.S. Eliot
Improv 41

Once again the man in dust
Answers my questions. He knows you
Better than I. My eye is it finally sees
You’re gone.


The Harlem Dancer— Claude Mckay
Improv 42

I do not understand
Decision.
I do not understand
Women v.s. pole.
Why mothers let babies
Dance stripped
With smiles
Like the symbol
Chime monkey.


The Tropics in New York— Claude Mckay
Improv 43

Remind me of smoothies.

My body nourishes in the memories
Of bananas ripe and green, ginger-root
To the china town hidden behind sprawl lane
Where the kittens rest on single pattern chairs
Designed by Sin-D- a bunch of crock- ford
Through the saliva.

Dulce et Decorum Est— Wilfred Owen
Improv 44

And watch the white eyes writhing in his face
At the sight of father skinning mother
In sweat and nakedness.
He could no longer be the same,
All went lame; all blind;
He drunk, with fatigue
Thoughts traveling through his limped
On, blood-shod of dreams that
Could no longer pace, so he
Vile cancer bitter until it cud
To children.






Ars Poetica— Archibald MacLeish
Improv 45

Always about the sea
I can not see.
I am tired of these poems
This poetry, not because
I do not enjoy it
But because my brain hurts
It is tired. My classes
Are tired of teaching me
Nothing I did not know,
Everything I did not know.
I just want to sleep
But instead I write.


[the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls]— E.E. Cummings
Improv 46

What is going on?
What is the structure?
“the” keeps being lowered to the next line
  into unbeautiful and comfortable minds
  of daughters of Christ and dead.
My fingers are knitting, delighted
Lavenders and cornerless rattles.
I am done.

[i sing of Olaf glad and big]— E.E. Cummings
Improv 47

i write in small to warm the big
with contradictions of icy waters
and intellect allegiance
i make no sense. a corpse
will not kiss a yearning
nations but carelessly repeat
repeat repeat in my head
turn in my stomach and wickedly
tease my silver bird of which blond
dress his head, and bead
blue with emerald .
“somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond]— E.E. Cummings
Improv 48

i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all the roses
you walked in observance by, all the roses you
refused to buy me. I do not know what it is about
you that closes me into this box of a room
left to this paper, my hand imaginings. I do not know
what puppets me like a puppy, what weakens
me to the coffee. My knees fold under the pressure
of the travelers lid.


Reapers— Jean Toomer
Improv 49

A long sessile reap and sow
The yellow bean that sprouts
And stalks the dirt, the deer
Hooves that take the fawn
Home. Stalked by the owl
Of hip-pockets and face time
The girls are stylish, trend
To the waves of typing injuries
And cover with a bandaid.


Georgia Dusk— Jean Toomer
Improv 50

I awoke on last time to my mother’s tears
Lazily disdaining to pursue, the setting
The darken sun. She nose the chalice
Sweet, the last drop of honey sticking
The knoll and hill of the neck
Noosed.








Tres Work Shop Drafts from Class

First practice: Books

“Put your confidence at my”
Foul, let it fail to not eat
Christianity, but foregrounds
The practical aspects of farming.
Do not quarrel and fertilize
As an outsider from the West Midlands
Where old Englilsh ideals has survived
Most strongly,
Spent a life poverty in London
As a glint goldfish, a shiver of sharks.
Stay for me.
Argue in numbers, eighteenth-centurty
Remedies that victor triumph and guarantee
Distance, feet, weight that ecstatic in festive
Being.




Coffee

An outsider from the West Midlands
Argument numerous eighteenth-century
Remedies where old English ideals spent
A life in poverty in London.

That of a victor whose final
Triumph is guaranteed; have four well-developed
Toes supporting the weight you did not
Quarrel, the practical aspects of farming.

The ecstatic release of “festive being,”
Snow as fertilizer, a giant of goldfish
Put your confidence at my shiver.
Stay for me.







Porch Band Loop, Columbus

Gilmore was and outsider from the West Midlands
Where fierce dust laze and delight into curls during day
And flesh at night. He didn’t disapprove or try to proceed
The sun, never argued remedies for life poverty in London
Triumph guaranteed four well-developed toes
Supporting weight that did not quarrel the practical
Aspects of farming. That of a victor whose final triumph
Survived most strongly against French, leopard flats
Put your confidence at my beloved bare cheek bone
and not quarrel shiver of sharks but the ecstatic “festive being,”
a glint that reflects my opinions of universal truth.


Second Practice: Fish

Don’t say you weren’t Warned
The frog breaks its own legs to grow
to claw boiling fish
evolved to defend
the learned,
the strange animal to explode
it’s really true.
Malaysian ants combust
threat (they wait until their enemies are close
before detonating).
 Soldier poison inside their bodies.
 When they sense a threat,
they contract their abs,
and spray poison.

Don’t say you weren’t Warned
(they wait until their enemies are close
before detonating).
the frogs, they break their own,
they crawl until claws extend, evolve
until learned in Malysia,
it animals the strange
it’s really true.
ants combust
threat and soldier poison
inside their bodies.
they contract their abs,
and spray poison.


Third Practice : Smells

Smelly boy from class


it’s the late arrival of a boy, reasons un-known
that slaps your face with an odor of
damp socks spoiled in the sun
the choke fish
the skin release of moist trash bag
that gap-tooth the unbearable
un-recycled
the crevice of your third toe clogged.








Smelly boy from class

The ache for home
The horde, the rolling eye
Invent visiting rules
To un-earth against something
So festered it decibel
Not in tone but nose.



Saturday, September 15, 2012

4210 Improv 18

Wallace Stevens (1879-1955):
"Thirte

4210 Improv 16


Design

I found a dimpled spider, fat and white,
On a white heal-all, holding up a moth
Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth --
Assorted characters of death and blight
Mixed ready to begin the morning right,
Like the ingredients of a witches' broth --
A snow-drop spider, a flower like a froth,
And dead wings carried like a paper kite.

What had that flower to do with being white,
The wayside blue and innocent heal-all?
What brought the kindred spider to that height,
Then steered the white moth thither in the night?
What but design of darkness to appall?--
If design govern in a thing so small. 
Robert Frost



My Improv-

What Humans are Designed for

Survival of the fit, the fittest, and the pretty,
The un-sourced mouth to say.

The non-webbed hands and toes help
humans drown because some can't swim
in the storm of needle pricked words.
The stubbled legs drive away the tension
of males' and females' breathing hard.

Humans are layered, starting with bones
strengthened by the breast of a mother.
Progress by phases start at the first
bike wreck that scabbed the gut suit.

The gut protecting suit so far advanced
in technology it heals in time, and
recycles skin into dust.

4210 Improv 15


Acquainted with the Night

by Robert Frost

I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain -- and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain. I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye; And further still at an unearthly height, O luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right. I have been one acquainted with the night.



Acquainted with the night

I have been one acquainted with the night.
I have walked out in rain -- and back in rain.
I have outwalked the furthest city light.

I have seen the sad streets of Angeles City.
I have listen to the un-known child save a life,
"It's written in a book somewhere."

I have followed a hand to paint the stars
that opened my thought and taught me
to stitch steel to the sunflowers petal
so that rain could gather and slide down
the stem, into roots and muscle.

The dirt, the children to play in poverty
will then stand a chance to slice bread
rather than break.

4210 Improv 14

After Apple-Picking
Robert Frost

My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree
Toward heaven still,
And there's a barrel that I didn't fill
Beside it, and there may be two or three
Apples I didn't pick upon some bough.
But I am done with apple-picking now.
Essence of winter sleep is on the night,
The scent of apples: I am drowsing off.
I cannot rub the strangeness from my sight
I got from looking through a pane of glass
I skimmed this morning from the drinking trough
And held against the world of hoary grass.
It melted, and I let it fall and break.
But I was well
Upon my way to sleep before it fell,
And I could tell
What form my dreaming was about to take.
Magnified apples appear and disappear,
Stem end and blossom end,
And every fleck of russet showing clear.
My instep arch not only keeps the ache,
It keeps the pressure of a ladder-round.
I feel the ladder sway as the boughs bend.
And I keep hearing from the cellar bin
The rumbling sound
Of load on load of apples coming in.
For I have had too much
Of apple-picking: I am overtired
Of the great harvest I myself desired.
There were ten thousand thousand fruit to touch,
Cherish in hand, lift down, and not let fall.
For all
That struck the earth,
No matter if not bruised or spiked with stubble,
Went surely to the cider-apple heap
As of no worth.
One can see what will trouble
This sleep of mine, whatever sleep it is.
Were he not gone,
The woodchuck could say whether it's like his
Long sleep, as I describe its coming on,
Or just some human sleep. 


My Improv

Wood Chuck

I
The bar it fills with girls and boys
fresh to the open road, identified
with plastic. Their masked ID's,
allow them to no always merge
in pairs through open doors.
Sometimes the zodiac question
spoils their stomach, before
they have the chance to purchase
a Manhattan straight, the "adult"
beverage of class.

II
That little label on the glass
slightly off center, displays
a land-beaver.
It burrows me to think about
rodents representing
drunkards.

4210 Improv 13

Susie Asado
Gertrude Stein 

Sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet tea.
    Susie Asado.
Sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet tea.
    Susie Asado.
Susie Asado which is a told tray sure.
A lean on the shoe this means slips slips hers.
When the ancient light grey is clean it is yellow, it is a silver seller.
This is a please this is a please there are the saids to jelly.
These are the wets these say the sets to leave a crown to Incy.
Incy is short of incubus.
A pot. A pot is a beginning of a rare bit of trees. Trees tremble,
the old vats are in bobbles, bobbles which shade and shove and
render clean, render clean must.
      Drink pups.
  Drink pups drink pups lease a sash hold, see it shine and a bobolink
has pins. It shows a nail.
  What is a nail. A nail is unison.
  Sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet tea.


My Improv

The "sweet" repeats and my head nods
to Susie Asado.

The "sweet" repeats and my head nods
to Susie Asado.

My head rhythms left and right sweet tea.
Sweet tea in the south pocket knives,
it diabetesize the healthy, un-healthy.
Sweet tea in the south drowns not in water
but crystal sugar from a flour bag.
The shifting layers of leaves, leave
out the Southern Belle's manner.