five performance scores

John M. Bennett




Head Wetting


Plunge your head and cash.

Drop your hat and plow.

Spit your shoe and crawl.

Smear your lip and number.

Float your word and spin.







Faucet Crimes


Bubble and bring your coin.

Gush and whistle your elbow.

Drool and say your layers.

Dry and nod your lingering.

Pool and fork your nostril.







See the Road


Bean the half your face contains.

Leave the wall your show contains.

Fork the shirt your pants contain.

Loaf the whistle your towel contains.

Jab the shade your eye contains.






Bubbling


Jump past dirt and stinger cloud.

Sleep past sink and grumble glass.

Page past foot and bucket rolling.

Nod past toilet and trickling hat.

Phone past bed and ticking air.







Get It Together


Soap the crawling toe.

Change the singing ear.

File the clanging key.

Moon the flaking face.

Stun the burning lake.



October 2010





Pull the Fog

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Wet Spot

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:.eat.:
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:.soap foot.:
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:.thin leg air.:
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:.grumbling off my tooth.:
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:.cash ham sliding down steps.:
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:.your smoking fork drifts out window.:
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:.key.:
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:.shirt loot slept in door hair.:
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:.cup banging in the luggage.:
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:.dreamed of dots and spots.:
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:.cave pouring ants.:
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:.tomb wash.:
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:.seat.:
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