scratches (2009)

Burb.
Bird’s call a greeting / warning / reminder.

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Caged food.
E. coli.
Filed sewage.

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Live a little less filtered?
Who has time for these experiments?

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Crossword clue = ‘experimental’; answer = ‘tentative’.

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Automatic door won’t acknowledge.
As if you don’t have a million things to steer.

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Mouthing around for endearment, closure.

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No recipient.

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Scratch eczema till bleeding.
As if narrative were inevitable.

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Monkish nest.
Fallen into the hands of Buddhists.
‘Bit too life-affirming for me.’

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No audience for preachers here.

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Step foot in these political premises.
Dogshit.

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Public imagery.

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Lowlife.
Shy collectors.
Sniped upskirt.

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Airbrushed avatar.

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Reach of the difference engine.
What is the quality of the search?

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Futures sought, posited.
Fear the flashforward.

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Default emotion?

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Make no attempt.
Nothing to talk to.

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Learning how to be uncomfortable.
Suffocating new scenery.
Who doesn’t attract weirdos?

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Easy exit.
Must go, before we become friends.

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Chickened.

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Do not thank the owner when leaving.

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What benefit of hindsight?

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Milk-fed.
32, afraid.
Tendril of half-bitten mouthflesh at the jawline.

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‘No pukers’ (a sign).

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Imposed structure.
Trained garden.
Need poems.

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Of uncertain authorship.
omnium gatherum.

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Pump omens into.

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You may yet prove interesting.
Or not.

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‘We are happy to inform you.’

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Dear Repeater.
You are a collection.
Don’t worry.

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Pill wears off.
Nothing learned once that doesn’t need learning again.

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Once desire is overcome, writing flourishes?
Dies?


Below: Brion Gysin, 'Calligraffiti of Fire' (click image to enlarge)