thaw

(i've been)
left behind in the cell lumen
the usual blue stain attack
characteristic slime material
library of luminous flux
& scabbard fragments

(night you leafed through
eva hesse we watched putney
swope you ripped my
stockings the sound
ripping through the
quiet apartment
complex
remember)

a pendulum-type isolation system
eggs were the most tolerant
and he sat in a box
of ice wedge complexes but
"soon i'll be holding you
instead of this
machine gun"

 

The Museum of At

excising
(trying to)
pieces of
my past like
splinters or
shrapnel fragments
from my
foot where I
shot myself
several years
ago:

prestressed
& systematically devastated
dominated by adhesive creep
additional rigidity
"technical death"

hours browsing the Self Hell
section
is destroying a serious mistake?

ripe resistance
maggots, graves & scholars
spurious patterns
a sensibility test
rip (tear?)
curing (ripening?)
bumps, wiggles
& other quirks
of the curve

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