T H E E T C.

John M. Bennett - April-May 2022

the etc.

the end's bread hole

the clinging window smoke

the slobbered face wind

the black wall voice

the swim's gloom born

the knotting ice hand

the fingered tooth cloud

etc.

shot clod

it 's h

ot hair

flavor boil

my icy drool

savored , eye

if it

is a shore

your mud

deflaccid

was

reckless rice

complete , frayed

a forest ran

pus flight

your flagging sleep

is meat you said

mi sed intextina

be es

correction spilled away

your breakfast dreams

invade the lung

you tumbled wide

ahora sweating

abejas hay

aformismos

lungless fell

yr burning back

is ever was

un note

un nerve

un name

snore file

it's a tool load

heavy than air

is ever could

was never wood

a pool

any wave

many floor

one or none

specimens

sleep imitation

absent key

circle crevice

grasses

long ruminants

eye silence

wheel devoured

chaos sphere

glass sheet glue

Samples hidden in Iván Argüelles'

“The Rumor of Sleep”, April 2022

orilla

end fork arm

rise boil

cling tored

eve sky

de tail crumbles

voice remains

lumenludicrous

but still

's lake re

tains nest dr

owned yr

ear sings'

ferment

luz enfrente

labio dormido

estormudo es

grillos del ojo

es timón

es trueno

es tuerca

suerismo

boca abierta

diente y sombra

ya no habre

dor matada

thunder leak

sweat stool or

plashing

yr thumb under

soil roiling

it clung

it

ojo L

it door

it erate

it ch

arf , shoe

single •

a f f f f f

eck tless wind

mouth pool

yr fermentation

fis

flood stain you

sock demember

a spore your

spill absorbed

iss t

“Al escribir sabemos que hay algo muy

importante que decir con respecto a la

realidad, y que tenemos ese algo al alcance,

allí nomás, muy cerca, en la punta de la

lengua, y que no debemos olvidarlo. Pero

siempre, sin falta, lo olvidamos.”

- Eduardo Halfon, El Boxeador Polaco, 2016.

 

 

GRAVEL WAS THE FUTURE

- For Hal Mcgee, C. Mehrl Bennett, & Jeff Chenailt

)Denser shoe im pact yr cloud

lint over shopping center Mall of Time(

HERE

LIES

IT

IS

eat yr throat

the window burns

falls off wall

WIND WALL WIND

WALL WIND WALL

WIND WALL WIND

WALL WIND WALL

¡Ay mi tamal incandescente!

y seco y

viento y

atronador...

y smelt the tree

the scanner said WET SLEEP

door phone floor

bone snore home

gore blown core groan

suck the vax the vacuum

El Vacío del teléfono

was my flopping loot

                                               Tongues of Wire Wall of Gas

                                               Grease flies from the tube the tube

is thick with flies the Dumpster Throne Crows

LOCK LINT LOCK LINT

LOCK LINT LOCK LINT

LOCK LOOT LOCK LOOT 1

LOCK LOOT LOCK LOOT

Want to snore?

THE FLOOR SPELLT YR HAND

WROTE BROKE DOOR IS

SLAB IS ASH

“Pestaña acuática” - José Lezama Lima

Me pensaba la pierna lúdica lubrecada

sancochada de tus nalgas

yr sickened sausage window clot

Hair washed the walls a mask cud

cud walk cud walk cud walk cud

walk cud walk cud walk cud

ka ka ka

ka ka

ka

k

“Los gendarmes pegaban con sus porras

a las arañas que descendían curiosas por la

invertida torre de la lámpara” - José Lezama Lima

ARAÑAS SIN VIENTO

SISMO de las cinco de la tarde

ABCESS ACCESS

ABCESS ACCESS

ABCESS ACCESS

OOOOOOOOOS

SSSSSSSSUCKLING

MY BACKSTAB LAUNDRY FLUTTER

stool wind stool

gut stool water

stool room stool

fist stool pants

stool drool stool

neck stool bank

stool flag stool

nostril stool knot

stool archive stool 2

plunge stool load

stool brain stool

stool stool STOOL

Spell & Lurk

the shaking wheel

a storm door

cozy & lisping

where the end sleeps

the billboard bombed

Dry Leg Twitch

the torn radio

Name & Grit

my shoe's river

is a door

it is not my leg

it is a thunderhead

a leafess dog

your tongue hamster

skull of water

it is where I sprayed

where I coffed the peom

DRIPPED & FLED

not sooner

not now

THE BASEMENT'S WINGS

& SOCK CLOTS

THE MILD MAPS

itching in my pantsleg

it was your mice & sueño

pulgas y espejos

nombres y lagos

acid & ice

was it

WAS IT

IT WAS

peel number

the flooded snore 3

MICE SPELLING ON WINDSHIELD

parking lot a wall of chicken parts

YOUR SEVERED WIND

retain the tooth you brained

EAT DOMINGO

NO ES VIERNES

es el agua fulminante

ES UN DEDO

QUE ME DICE COMO

COMO COMER

un ladrillo

NO ES OBVIO

synthetic wind

the crumbled night

yes was sweaty

yes was freezing

in my floor's suckage

a shirt

a chair

a denture

a flag

a combination lock

it's cheesy

a sun

says the toilet

bowl

was a hat

a lightbulb & lips

the steps ripping

the FROG BEHIND YOUR EYES

SHOT THE DOOR

the needle whines

my inner eye leakage

phone crumbles

in my CROTCH

cloud injection 4

Oi Oi Oi

shape crash

SHAPE CRASH

cottage cheese & knee

POOL OF HAM SANDWICHES

& HAND LOTION

gland crawling

yr swollen suit

nostril format

SPAM TEST SPAM

TEST SPAM TEST

SPAM TEST SPAM

TEST SPAM TEST

FISTIC CLOUD

TWITSES O

MLORTO O MORTOT

O MORDOK O

MORDIP O

MORTIFUMEO

ACID FONE

LADDER BURNING ON THE ROOF

tic Tic tic TIC tic

TIC tic TIC tic TIC

TICK TIC K TI CK

T ICK Tick TicK K

grunt in the smoke

THE FONE BURNS

&

crawls

Bled sky

Stun sky

Ant sky

Knob sky

THE FAUCET BLEEDS 5

an ink storm

a cloud brick

a skull drip

a shoe wind

a book coff

a hammer bed

a sleep tonsil

MY FOOT IN A BRICK

it was your bowl

your ankle soup

a fish swimming

in stone your

garbage dumpster

a clock

GRAVEL was the FUTURE

where your blunt Head SANG

GRAVE

was your past

where your blind

BREAD HANGS

BLIND BREAD

BLIND BREAD

BLIND BREAD

H

H

A

N

G

S

6

 

 Temple of Poseiden, Greece