QUITTERS IN THE CABINET OF A JUNK FUTURE [2013]

(or     why is this not a block of ice
a hair net
or the leftovers in my fridge)

"Words cannot avoid meaning something,
but they can be divested of intentionality."

  -- Ulises Carrión

[…]

through tubes of viscous gunk     indisputably

these afternoons are sequential and riotous

they make contortions of their chimes     and symptoms

of their efforts to be misconstrued

with swiftness they are taken aback     knotted

as a forest might blanche before vanishing

[…]

but this is not to be mistaken     for shrill

for the ridiculous precedent that's been set

this is a liner like any other     dull

with the potentials of junk gone missing

[…]

the weather there is a circuit     divulging

mechanisms and an obsession

with midnights     with Roman numerals

with the doctrines to which we've subscribed

or rhythms     those hatched in the interim

as nepotism transitioned into cold pizza

[…]

this

specific ignorance

is

a patchwork

of

miniscule bruises

and

fractures

[…]

a passage of this baffles     and a camera

tunes the innards to a sentence

while vanishing is seen as wishing     wafting

through your entrances like smoke smiles

[…]

conclusion     what is quitting but repetition

and can confusion be a symptom at the octave

slacking on the floor with animals     and rubber

is as unclassifiable as it is crystalline

or the wondering is an alignment     with laughter

with the illusion of opposites and phosphorescence

custard      and the certitude of kitchen hippies

their instruments frozen above the sieve

[…]

"…this music in the dim early morning light,

accompanied as it was by thunder and

flashes of lightning… […]  I do not understand,

and that is EXACTLY how it should be.

Thank you."

[…]

might I be locked into this tomorrow     this symptom

if impressions of me are to be kept current

and is the liver an invisible organ     truly

if a rabbit wedges himself between it and its waste

or sets a precedent     or impresses the intestines

or hums a tentative dirge as he munches

[…]

index of some of the words used in this work:

television

satisfaction

avenue

justice 

nightstick

occupation

effort

compression

building

bandages

blinking 

sunlight

monument

equippage

tireless

couplable

cancer

perimeter

whittle

tightrope

nudging

immature

kingdom

edgeless

hermit

burning

provender

diminished 

alerted

young

"One day I shall certainly have to start using words 

to uncover what is real, to uncover my reality."

          -- Georges Perec