Monday, May 16, 2022
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.
Saturday, April 30, 2022
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
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