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ADVANCED composition.

this is a poem that i wrote which will appear in Kutztowns literary&arts magazine (once Shooflys rival) ESSENCE.

it is called ADVANCED composition.


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instant access opinionated blog spot lily pad melting Monet under acrylic bridges search engined reading counting 74 lily pads (making sense?) crane lifted twenty-foot-two-ton-comfort-zoned-commercial-cinder-blocked white painted square with smart classroomed (moveable Mahoney) desks inscribed graffited--Bob Marley the original Rasta-- cut both and off limits questioned brevity interviewed five year foreman recursively explaining the sinkhole sucking tons of concrete sucking ideas into ambiguous blackholed roommates unresponsive will the middle ground no man land entrenched All Quiet on the Western Front barbed wire blocking butterflight bells ring men run to basement bomb shelters (students in unpanicked lines leave the building as if life was a) drilled hole under Gaza Strips arms dealers rich with $32000 homes painted teal sipping tea frustrating failures in class spaces high school castes information deliver barriers broken understanding fired emailed seamless efficient transmitted extracted from tiny pictures of autonomous machines.

Excerpts from 20

This is a sequence poem i am working on.
Here are a few pieces of it i am fond of.

2)

take out
aaaaaaaa edit analyzed words structures
fireworks
aaaaaaaa reminders in faded yellow pages
stuck
aaaaaaaa floor ward & memory bound
by heater

3)

set phone on vibrate
or
create constraints of living:
eat only non-meat
shower daily
brush teeth more
or not

4)

mandatory bathroom stops
after drinking tea
one cup in the morning
one cup afternoon
two cups for study
rinse repeat

8)

can you do this in one sitting
or
do you need to get up to go to the bathroom

11)

hobbies include
biting fingernails till
hands hurt
&
roaming with empty stomach
(dinosaur steps)
only to find
nothing to eat

12)

save work frequently aaaaa (automated response)
but
never look back aaaaaaaaa (habitual tendency)
at
yesterdays remembrances a (memory lies)
of
real vanilla smiles

13)

In a panic attack yesterday Kutztown University student Christopher Tiefel grabbed a red emergency phone and screamed "Help me Batman!"

will

will scan weekends work
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa reworked words
will waste timings and repost checking
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa linear ideas
will capture weekends outside of
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa normal naratives
will work

the smell of paper*

PARTICIPANT

nose the size of a
ripened pear shriveled
sun dried & sandblasted

short black hairs
a wool coat brushy hair
dune wrinkle lines

each doubted expression
a cartoon caricature
missing teeth thirsting for water

a mosque's tower in background view or
an ad for Pepsi Cola
Yelling always

it was Sunni out
the crowd of Shi'ites
carried four blackened away

a final hajj
from Karada neighborhood
to Page A8 one dollar.

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*or war poem through fingers and cultural lenses of a twenty year old white upper middle class american male at school on the computer his parents bought for him.

2)EDUCATION

Sunni Muslims are the orthodox
branch of Islam whose adherents
believe that Muhammad's successor
should be elected.
They comprise 85% of all Muslims.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Shi'ite Muslims are the
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa branch of Islam
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa whose adherents hold that
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Ali, Muhammad's cousin & aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa son-in-law, was
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Muhammad's successor.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Found in Iran Iraq
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Afghanistan Pakistan.
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3)PERSPECTIVE

news three days
aaaaaaaaaaaaaa away

curfew cooled sectarian violence

do not draw a picture
do not say a name

at least 75 Iraqis
aaaaaaaaaaaaaa (no u after q)

Mahdi AK-47 years old
379 people and rising


90% of Arab

population are dependent
on water that originates in

non-Arab lands.

numbers mean nothing.
words mean less.

car=bomb

Askariya Shrine in Samarra
a golden explosion

the CNN predicted civil war.

The Last Stall on the Right

split ends fall like fingers to the floor
(tiles like dirty teeth)
doubled over
we ignore
the ground we walk on
crushed with
boots sandals sneakers heels
(heel to toe: hard)
bare feet, naked
truth
skips these floors
but tattoos the walls
we make our proclamations permanent
(repainted every year-
we are afraid
to learn from our mistakes-
and i didn't really love him.)
hide reason
under eyelids infrared
in our designated darkness
(we don't talk in person anymore-
and keep our reasons to ourselves.)
soles
blistering cold
tiles
we come here
(sick sob sex)
and wash our hands
over and over
again
because someone else is in our stall.