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Um Loop

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

a belated quasi-epithalamium for Josh & Lynn on the occasion of Sawako dropping into Shanghai and visiting me and Monika. I was in the crowdknocking about when suddenly you camefrom both sides you two singular a moment!

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Conspiracy Query No. 1

Saturday, January 12, 2013

Conspire… to breathe with? What’s the etymology? “It’s in the air,” phrase functions both as idiom and figure for info spread, of meaning, of memes (mememememe a chain of me-peeps linked, subverted we people w/ myth flipped, domination in the mix, an oscillating morpheme dependent on a Saussurean whir of m w m w m w m wmwmw feeding into (and […]

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Experimental Lament

Monday, October 15, 2012

I meant it, permanent ex, I meant it.I, late, repeat per term lament I trip, expat (mere I), ex (rent me!) I limp relate, relent; I preen, temp ex, I merit next ex, next exit, next mentalpair experiment. In a tent, ape reflex mate per mate, male peer I relatetime per time in permanent map, tame  I merit extreme time, irate ex, […]

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Longing for Lists

Sunday, September 2, 2012

Twitter poem No. 2* Not every great movie fell the direction Lucky the Tree did deer in the yardsweet tabby kitten on porch rather fetching nerdboyfriendfucking just broke my laptop not what I needed but what more could you ask for? A funeral for sea level Clintshot by police on August 16th Miners in South Africa charged with the murder […]

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A Tongue-Twister for Tibetans

Thursday, February 2, 2012

 Twitter poem No. 1* Where Futurama translator Queen Meet the Deadgave gay writers a Trojan Horse. WHOWILL JESSE VENTURAENDORSE? China’s African Union HQ? Al Jazeera English? Occupy Oakland? New Study gross as it isof RNC appears with Tiananmen tank man. Facebook sends jobsmock public, rolls wleaders affected by sadomasochistic tarts, anti-locust Hong Kongers,Higgs democracy, burningthe black flag, police violence. Newt Gingrich’s biggestdonor: gambling Asiansin […]

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BOMB IRAN

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

A poem from a set written not long after we moved to Shanghai and settled down in the French Concession near the old publisher’s row on Shaoxing Lu (once known as the Rue Victor-Emmanuel III). It was published at some point in Sal Mimeo. I tend not to think about old poems much, but the recent surge in American-Iranian […]

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The Great Sages

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

LaoziZhuangzi KongziMengziPonzi

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Notice Tone

Monday, October 3, 2011

Is off the chest box isgardendirt going construction ballsite cold side of Mercury whereall our ornery hormones rip generator airlight or where pure pneumatic hammers durian strapped to a moped form scramble runaround & Jump horny vac jump

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