... linguistically fluent in Targoviste

I hate it when you get angry with me.

they always missed the sales.

the television set wasn't bought from argos.

they bought the best for christmas.

when the brick fell they didn't notice.

they saved.

when they were young they used to walk past the pigsty.

they climbed the apple tree to shake the fruit down.

he thought rabbit hunting was fun.

there was nothing much in the ward that sometimes served as a cinema.

he used to love watch the nurse, Hilda, wrap the bandages around my leg.

such a brave paratrooper she said.

we often played backgammon and drank cotes de rhône.

always after we turned the gas low.

there were no rabbits.

the cars had stopped crashing.

hidden by curtains we washed each other.

it was a bit like Spain.

well sort of. if you blinked. If you stared at the lights.

yesterday. I recalled a train journey.

I remember we wrote to someone in spanish.

sometimes I miss the pizza we enjoyed at grimaldi's

they have missed breakfast twice now.

I guessed it had being snowing yesterday.

going by your shoes.

my father and mother are not my real parents.

my dear aunt has gone out.

I hate fishing.

I think I am deaf.

I care not for topiary.

at night when I put my shoes on.

they walk around the house slamming doors.

all the time they hum hymns.

when you hide behind the newspaper.

he was awake by a half dead campfire.

Andrew often think how exciting it would be to be a cowboy.

I am.

no, I don't speak German.





Also sprach Otto: What good are your angels dancing on pins? Or your ruminations on timeless time? Every generation breed the same consortium of halfwit hippies. Happies. About what are you happy? Woe unto them who bind vanity with cords of inanity. Hear ye! Rome isn’t going to burn neatly this time in a merry bonfire around which you may dance. Stockholm isn’t going to burn like a pretty Yule log. All will disappear in a fiery instant including you. And all will be sucked into the twinkling Cyclops eye of He who watches and neither slumbers nor sleeps. Swedish Idol shall pass away. Howl ye terrible poets and songwriters! Ein festering Bugger is our Gott. And an angry Bugger he is too.

The church secretary looked up wearily though the netting in her little Film Noir hat. “That’s not quite it, is it Reverend?” she said in her Ingrid Bergman purr.

“I hate folk masses” the Reverend said by way of explanation.

“That little solemn gypsy who lives at the hotel is here again”, the secretary sighed.

“Good, good-we’ll have some pastry then”

She enters carrying her small Bible. She has come to ask him how it she might go to prison without committing a crime and therefore a sin. Her desire for confinement has grown immense. Sometimes she begs the hotel maids to leave her in the cleaning closet while they go about their cleaning rounds. Most of them, except Alexandra, tell her to suit herself and not to touch the cleaning fluids. She never does but looks amazed at the blue coloring of the liquid and the menace of the spray nozzles. She counts and recounts the folded sheets. She passes the mop back and forth between her palms while she scryes the inside of the mop bucket. One time she saw Mrs. Almquist’s face at the bottom and became so frightened that she banged helplessly at the door until Alexandra finally heard her. “You see, I told you not to stay in there”, Alexandra said patting her head.

The Reverend is amused at her request. He thinks it psychological, something to do with a need to be settled in a place. He is wrong. She doesn’t desire to be settled, she desires to be efficient. She desires a sort of spiritual mechanization process that will allow her to watch the world from outside of herself. She thinks the routine of confinement might speed this process by years. She does not tell him this however because she does not possess the words. She pictures her soul as silver; a bubble fairy singing only the highest and most impervious notes laid out in rows of gleaming teeth. She does not tell him this either but merely rearticulates her request to be somehow sentenced to a prison term.

The Reverend leans forward in his chair and offers her a pastry.

“I can’t send you to prison but I can send you to school. There is a choir there, you will like it”

The girls nods and understands herself to be further sentenced to childhood .





Professor Aurélia Blight & Otto awoke by a .5 dead campfire. In the distance a giant department store appeared to float free of the plateau, like an embalmed yet living grasshopper. Aurélia kissed Otto. He signed to her, do the birds sing? They walked beside the river Elbe, admiring its medieval mermaids.

Sunday formed a crust on their kisses. Otto climbed aboard the dodgem cars, & machine-gunned the crowd of 1000 year old children. Where a child fell a football stadium sprang up, & the birds flew over the shadow-children excitedly to watch the games.

Sally & Simon patched the roof with snow. The zoo was very close now; in the stillness of the longest day they could hear it rolling towards them, the animals laughing for pure joy & the exhilaration of non-existence. Sally’s throat smelt of peppermint & coal dust. The snow blackened until they could paint by it. Sally painted many beautiful pictures of the fish in the sky & the birds in the sea. Simon fell over & broke his lips into maps. Sally combed her long yellow hair & smoked a cigarette. She sat in the window, her feet dangling above the street. She sang a few songs to herself & the clouds reached up to carry her away.

Professor Blight was teaching Logic to her orphaned students. When she had finished she joined Sally on a cloud & they drove the car away into winter before summer could end. Otto huddled in a doorway of the giant department store, which was now rooted to the plateau. In the terrible cold he sang songs for coins, songs which had been popular when Sally was young & Simon was asleep. People took photographs of him to forget they had ever been there. Then some police took him & kissed him all over his body which had ceased to be flesh & bone & skin & had become a map of rags. This was how the world ended.

They examine the bird carefully. It will break in their minds. They pull back a carpet & suck in cool mud. The oldest books are at the storm’s centre; windows rattle, eels rush hissingly across the sandy floor & bite their heels. In the next room the motel blinks & sleeps in sleepless blue popular symphonies. Jess keeps shooting at the TV screen; Pavel is too busy writing love letters to Patricia to care. The motel annex is the kind of place terrorists favour. They drive in & out of the carpark, all day long, & similar to the recurrence of the seasons they know no sequence.

Simon spent the next day cataloguing Mrs Johnson’s collection of whips & fetish wear. The oldest examples in the collection dated from next century. Suddenly he realised that the train had pulled into a station & was waiting for the signal to move on. Leaving Mrs Johnson’s collection to the mice & their infants he leapt from the train & ran down a grassy bank towards a small & brilliant river. The air was thick with butterflies & tremulous with birdsong. Sally sat by the river, her feet in the warm salty water. They embraced & night wrapped them around like the furry tongue of a great beast of prey.





the names of animal royalty

roberto duran eating a royal fish

screaming peach

drip jibbling his chin

beard black as bluebeard

awful fucking fights

he pushes familiars

to the brink of their walking station

owl ore and carrot diet

he eat two eggs, grits, two steaks

five glasses of orange juice, malt

drink, milk, peas, and then he got

punched in the stomach

naturally he’d had enough



sacred rye rub cracks

friend of Syria

never felt lonely on board

a sacred deck, home

guadalcanal, seeds

fasts speaking mud

my epic work – lumbii

celebration of the male

grope witch, my man ribbon

the earth is molten

everything is moving

spit & come swapping

you can have it out of me

with your mouth

like gummy hybrid migration

thankful chips



Hepsibah, queen of bees

I killed a French in a poem

stillbird in vietnam

shouting in wetdreamt

veeette-namme

some must be everyone + no one

incest was no explanation

bush crack hair wire

against caribou in ghana

boys playing tennis

black boys

I am a black poet

shifty and angry



hood that smells rancid

guess the animal dot

fix eager in Algeria

I am Mohammed Choukri

and driss ben hamed charidi

mixed up with Isabelle Eberhardt’s

church going relatives

dans Geneve

city of parks

and dry lakes with Ciara

sooting the tooth out of my arse

instead of an animal

like a dog – a pug

we got a covered band

and fuck all use that was



I knew Mog

I knew a closet cat

who would leper

coffee and mint tea

feet and socks

of Mohammed Khair Eddine

I have deliberately left out the double dot

Cecil in Vicenza

spying on a brush boat

of tourists

is at the edge of fervour

choosing his paint on a swatch

emulsifying a pigwash pink

for his daughter’s

tiny room



Coral Brancho is eating my toenails

and turning down

awards

the friend of people and animals

let me see you at the dawn of everyday

the calver with clean heads

cleaver Jane scribe

who drives anon

away civil evil

who writers trut

arsenic sulphide sunwipe

I’ve not done any evil in this land



all life and companions

just as I was on the call

the earth

black bone breaker

threatening the Jean Pascal

of Londonderry

not told lies lightly

there is a bomb on the milkfloat

I am a crock

crocq mersed in terror

and linguistically fluent in Targoviste

I dream shells

I am a crocodile

sponsored

who takes by violence

Spell 88



Reformatists

Transformatists

Phrasal

Repatristist

Disjunctivist

Reanimatist

Marktist

Satisirists

Hommerists

Politicists

Motelarists

Recidivists

Linguists

battery low



bring nothing new to the dinner table

yet toy

are the first to reap the upward guff of medicine

burn the school of gentlemanly conduct

burns

wipe in women’s hair

puree of the tomato

fud to the form of the novel

two directions of the novel

by some cunt

enter in peace

and leave because it got too hot

in there and someone died in the last

bacon competition in Finland

Sauna dirt fill the form of the novel



Enter in peace

technology that serves a purpose

while molesting a lamb scandal

with mint and veterans

cunning crossed with prison

priest of poison

hex on whiny jews

hiss hoss

stepoutwardforemost

last leg

the turning cog

upper leg is right leg

full mobility for army Billy

the bloody bandage is loose



slack vagina

omnivorous dance crasher

slack anus

turn is turned

backbent in a spinal memory

the legs x’d in a flourish

two thousands criminal prosecutions

no heart for defence

just give me a five pound note

I’m so poor and you own a car mate

you owe me a cigarette

just asking for directions

stupid cripple with spinabifada

on the Holborn ducket

eating chips

selling gymbox leaflets

fell into a bus



no internal organs of any kind

no lungs, liver or duodenum

no mouth even

no blood

no fear of water

no wife

no jacket

no winter

no crank

no cogs of the judicial

no crank

no whatever is within block

no crimps

no smile for me



hymen dragonface

complaining is the central interest of millenial American poetry

we watch the road

the dung beetle

to battle with a shitball

the carrot’s groin

touch the brow

of eyelashes

sweat black like a robbery

the one walking amongst them

folded

fucking quitter

from a rough area

he wasn’t given a chance to suceed

television warble catwipe



die blaue wheelbarrow

full of newly rescued human excrement

beetle frown

untrimmed bush

appear smile

vice versa sleek

intimidating shape bouncer

soldier condition for Easter

turned my life around

parsimonious

kip hemp & barley ween

shouting “hard work a mean business”

daft swift slip



our general is Gobbles

art with a spade

nibless fountain pen

prize living winnings

poorly tendered taxidermied tits

no wit

dig for bones

saliva smell around an untrimmed bush

barrage of mutes

low water quality

Ben Morris has dignity

bilett homosexual deepcut rape

mother-in-law or something

another pigeon unearthed concerned

encased in weed & bronze

dinner finally ready



Hanuman massage

monkey Elvis cancer of the bowels

iron tire does nothing to halt the snow

peace treaty

the siege of Copenhagen

bloodshed precum

O kindnesses!

thoughts of you & grime music pussyole

apparently useless

bus driver report

warm & smiling while peacefully asleep

courage for the hardest yard

pink & furry in the most charming of places

siege cannot fail

acoustic guitar is a dead instrument



robbed an old person

to pay for a reading of international

shot with a crossbow

ready loded beneath the mattress

machete beneath the pillow

and samurai sword, filipino fighting sticks

penknife, pepper spray

I have brooked this river once before

it ended well

far west superiority

winning ways



false memory

entreaty

horse march

run home

ihooves paint black holes

desert mud

blacker

emblem chest

red
steakbreast

blood mark disease

Angola prison harsh sentence

AIDS

should not eat bushmeat

the cross’d crusader



trouble with Tuesday double-vision

I eat fists & girl farts online

as though they were peaches

strange profession to choose to be a schoolteacher

the shout of the average

Sadness

my mother

moans

arrested

once more

once too often

for beating a muslin body roll

dyed blue

bound and torn in three



warfare limits to ten minutes per engagement

storm the chair

the ergonomic backache warbler

a life and legend in a bathtub

a walk from Exmouth to Topsham

a consensual

a mutual organism

rhizome junior locked up for fifteen

life spent with barely two come at the same time

schooling sandbag bayonett fust

stab that bastard in the face

I stabbed that bastard in the face

cut him Chris

I am ready to die for my country

are you?

complete turnaround

in a pub

somewhere

off the A30



russiancriminaltattoo.com

hot tits

polar obsession

pliers and other tools of dentistry

best to tell the prisoners we don’t money for dentures

permission to record the guest speaker

crash car in a zoo parking arena

baby bambi offering its rear to the wind

pink

pirelli calender by terry richardson

she won an award she was so good at it

but converted soon to that mumbo catholic

gund & snund

death & fire

whee bear churns butter

for the funeral



staged photograph

carnival in the mountains

first exhibition in Romanian church is poorly attended

but sounds great posthumously

Sunday Monday Tuesday

nazi whore search

knee to knee bent to the left

flag day

trip and skewered scrotum

dead in a car crash anyhow



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