three poems written in combined ten minutes over three days while watching television & eating ice cream

A HEALTHY BOVINE

 

Removing a nail from your forehead is

No easier than painting twenty thousand

Otter figurines

Orange

But nail removal's always

More rewarding which is why

We've committed to un-nailing

Only

American foreheads

Assuming

You have proper insurance

Documentation and access to
A nail gun

Three raw onions

And fifteen

Lightly rusted tractors

I FEEL BAD ABOUT DRINKING EVER NOW

 

This diagram is not an example

Of your elbow

Or even fifteen Ryobi power drills

Poking tiny holes in my

Tiny sternum

But while ten tons of whiskey

Drain into a barrel

From my perforated stomach

We always make

A textbook origami crane to

Replace the various brains

You jarred

& brought to Saturday Market

March 3^rd, 1987

SOMETIMES AMERICA'S GOT TALENT EATS YOUR FACE CHILDISHLY & WITH PREJUDICE

I can digest small pebbles in my hand

And survive

On only hair & fingernails

For five years

My Vegas show will feature

A small lighted terrarium

My face

And five million watt LED backlights

Donations

To my 501(c)3 nonprofit

Are encouraged

a bunch of poems about ants i wrote 4-5 years ago and saved in a folder i forgot about

HOME

Little ants crawl carefully on my face

BED

Softly I email the little ants who advertise car-insurance during Divorce Court

ANTS

Where are the ants who will slowly assemble the future?

AMERICAN ANTS

The bed's infested with tiny people and I'm so tired I lay upon them and eat until I can't eat anymore

THE SKY'S HUGE TODAY WITH BUFFALO AND WE CAN ONLY WAIT FOR THE END OF ONE THING AND THE BEGINNING OF ANOTHER

I love you more cunningly than ants with robot-arms

FLESH ANTS

From here my tits are prettier than anything

SOME GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS

Pickling the little ants may not make them love you

HEART ANTS MARCHING SLOWLY TOWARD THE OCEAN

The calcium from the bones sustained us

ANT FUNERAL

From there, their tits were so beautiful

SOME GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS 2

To love a thing is to be a thing which's why I hoist my meat in the mirror

ANTS OF DESPAIR

There is no red refrigerator

POSTCARD FROM A PART OF THE WORLD WHERE I'M ALMOST SURE NO PERSON WAITS WITH HIDDEN KNIVES

Everyone here's named Dickson and we're murdering the robots precisely

DREAMS OF THE ANT-TOMORROW

The aliens were taller and better-armed before the sale

ANT-MASSACRE

The insides were not inside

DESERT JOURNIES OF ANTS

They have special night-vision-goggles for late-night operations

ONE ANT MAY LOVE ANOTHER ANT BUT ONLY FOR A SHORT TIME AND ONLY WHEN YOU AND I COLLAPSE SLOWLY THROUGH THE FRESHLY TURNED SOIL

We only buried three of them and only after we separated their little ant-parts and removed the thin exoskeleton we now wear as eye-glasses

WE COULD EAT PEOPLE IF THERE WERE ENOUGH OF US

Miniature umbrellas for the parade

LITTLE ANTS DRUNK IN BOISE WALK SLOWLY THROUGH THE RAIN

I love you because

THE FEET ARE EATING OTHER FEET SO WE GO SOMEWHERE ELSE AGAIN

Ant-movie-blockbusters happen only biannually when the long marches end in the mountains and after the frost-bitten are roasted bitterly for film

SEVENTEEN SWITCHBLADES FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY

Politely cutting faces is beautiful today

PEOPLE ONLY LOVE PEOPLE WHO LOVE THEM

Ants crawl from my fingertip to my nose

SEPARATE IS MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN YOU

The ants can march between our body-parts if you want

TOAST AND SOUP

Sad to know the little ants will never eat

MINIATURE ANTS IN THE MINIATURE FUTURE

I want so much to be smaller even than ants

THERE ARE NO ANT-HITMEN

To kill one ant you must kill every other ant

STARVING ANTS MARCHING THROUGH THE FOOTHILLS OF THE HIMALAYAS

The melted snow is undrinkable but we drink anyway and sleep for a while.

happy now

I am happy now I am happy now I am happy now
Now I am happy now I am happy now I am happy
Am happy now I am happy now I am happy now
Happy now I am happy now I am happy now I am
I happy now am I happy now am I happy now am
Now am I happy now am I happy now am I happy
Am I happy now am I happy now am I happy now
Happy now am I happy now am I happy now am

there is the finch there is

There is the finch there is
An Africanized bee
Sun through angled slats will only
Sun for a while
& we'll watch American football
Until the hike to a butte
Where still cameras record
The progress of my double dealing
Bank heist heroes
It is only good to eat eggs
If we can become eggs slowly
As a car may become moss
Or as you may become
A catalog
I am now & ever a glass of
Milk
Thick & warm as ladled soup

it aliens were here for

'we can't have a space creature living in our house'
says one cosmonaut
to his mother
but i am i am
want slowly to eat the orange sherbet
with wood spoon

bicycle

i can ride a bicycle. there are bridges. the bicycle on the bridges. the columbia river. at the airport the airport airports. if i roll my jeans into my jeans there is no chain. the boats on the columbia. the sea scouts. at the airport the airplanes head to albuquerque. an island only accessible by boat. an island in the columbia. my bicycle, my bicycle does not roll to the island. there is other rolling. people on the path. people on the path in groups looking at the island only accessible by boat. the boat, the boats there, the airport. the music on the boat where my bicycle will not go.

why running form matters

a freeway is not very significant. a porcupine beside a freeway. what is significant is my tiny wet toe. my tiny wet toe toe. the toe there, the finger. there are more significant parts. there are nipples. nose hairs. there are gardens of them. the little snouts of our undergarments. i am growing which is not very significant. i am see-through on the screen. there is groaning & foaming. significant projections. at the matinee showtime for 'inception' the viewers are not very significant. the screen above them & around them, we hope. we hope. we hope to tie them gently to their cupholders. the fingers & their significance. a dolby digital surround sound, a garden of undergarments, of snouts & holes, all, every one of them, pointed perpendicular from every other one of them.