Adam Fieled

Peanut Butter and Rabies

The aged woman with glasses, doing charity
work, wants some charity herself. The nights
at this place have been long— the kids get
disgruntled, people aren’t bringing in as much
food as they used to. If it’s another peanut
butter and jelly night, she has to bear the brunt.
All the kids see is a half-empty plate. Her
husband won’t come anymore— the atmosphere
is too strained. The kids, she thinks in spite of
herself, are like a bunch of dogs with rabies.
And, as she can’t tell, they think the same of her.

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Laura Young

Around and Through

Francesco Levato

if caloric, a modification of light

The names of such things as affect us, which please, and displease,
the common discourses of inconstant signification,
its species and respective capacities; of the structure required; 
of the number and nature of constituent parts;
this crevice a small room, whitewashed and clean 
but scarce that principle of morality to be named,
of virtue to be thought on, not somewhere or other
slighted and condemned, between general fashion
and rules of living quite opposite to others.

[ from kaustos ‘burnt’ (from kaiein ‘to burn’) ] 1.0b6


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the gravity of the water

At first I had neglected them, 
but now that I was able to decipher the characters,
death, wounds, imprisonment,
the promise of not resisting force,
the action as one continuous whole, 
can it be imagined, that they perceive the impressions 
from things without, and be at the same time ignorant 
of those which nature stamped within?

[ from kaustos ‘burnt’ (from kaiein ‘to burn’) ] 1.0b7


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sulphuric ether, small narrow glass

Let us follow the natural order and begin with primary facts. 
The other is compounded; as when from the sight of a man at one time, 
and of a horse at another, we conceive in our mind a centaure,
qualify metaphor by adding on to it that which it supplants.
But the use of words in registering our thoughts
is in nothing so evident than reward and punishment; 
in enjoyment embittered by memory of the future, 
anticipation of the past.

[ from kaustos ‘burnt’ (from kaiein ‘to burn’) ] 1.0b9


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Francesco Aprile

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Allen Bramhall

Little is Known of Mongolia

A piano remained when everybody died. The piano was named Karl as a spoof on frequency. Its tone provoked a resonance, and everyone talked with verbs, nouns and the like. The nation's imagination threw a bolt of what is your favourite flavour into the air of chance. We decided we were coloured transistors from the planet Diagram. North is a point to discuss, as is South. The piano we remember was a spot in a sentence. The sentence meant to provide an action, and colour it with adjectives. No one expected the piano to remain aloof: It was friday, the living was fine. While the program constitutes a nation, we stop mid sentence. There could be a change, like spirit in a desk.

We're told so many things. The spectacle requires a mask.

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Francesco Aprile

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Rudolfo Carrillo

Fourteen Memetic Signals Used to Provoke Uncertainty in the Reader

American flags made from hidden Yankee tendencies.
Shaved pudenda isolated through the use of Photoshop.
A new television set that is colored to resemble night.
Innumerable displays suggesting coition or its possibility.
Dactyls on display at the petroleum depot.
Clinical observations made prior to the execution of bodily functions.
Self-referential asides that invite mockery.

Imagining oneself as a monkey living in an Antarctic laboratory.
Accumulating chemicals as means of displaying wealth and patience.
Having fun with the ruined atmosphere.
Rendering hands as twigs and branches.
Changing the settings to thwart capitalist interlopers.
Sensing the closeness of dissolution like a snail senses paint.

The statutory procedure that terminates at a local trailer park.

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Volodymyr Bilyk

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Bob BrueckL

 Stout Snout

Toothy, swishy:  un-un moniker the stupid gamut, 

the cloned ultrasuede, the rhomboid-stolid Wake-Robin 

(trillium erectum) -- recurved, hypostatic, prickled, 

declinated

 Tin ingots, O butt cloner, peristalsis slashy --

 un-name my meme:  my meme is me, O dander:

 What dew I knew!

Creamy, liver-shaped monstrosities, serrated, protruding,

slishy-sloshy, gloopy-gloppy purple maroon abutting

the back of the indigo moon

Dusky, unabetted, stripped scrape, deface

the jarring pompadour, O my

cauliflower ear

Aubergine midnight on the periphery:  scrap

the immaculate, ultramarine, mauve-striped violets,

the delirious faces of the canary-yellow pansies

softly swaying in the sapphire shadows

straddling the ovoid awl -- No!

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James Bell

dream story - the zen factor

wood like windchimes  with sound this time

could have been the clacking of the shutters in the wind

as you slept - though the result was good -

how the brain at rest designed a different visual effect

to break the monotony 

of course you see that zenlike picture everyday

always supposing you can see zen

like you do this structure in bamboo

a pergola in minature - hangs in the air

ten past three you go to piss

and this comes after you return to sleep

wonder as you do if wood can speak -

of course this happens in dreams

when you are allowed to explore other dimensions

when the limits have been removed

maybe this is how it's done

in order to face permutations outside this reality -

the wood was green so sounded softer

deeper than long dry wood or metal

want to know what they would say

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Peter Ganick

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John M. Bennett

chmirarorir

itch the ash the ass lep

rosario torn my enteusage

claim my underouch sev

ered logluggage es mi

plan tostado mis paines

with the hairy teeth  .sn

ore yr ddribbling .wh ey

the bloodies running down

yr arm the “wheeling sp

spoon” uhn unh ,nuh

infogcussed ,claimed ssau

ssage ffingered in my ppp

ocket where you  )gnaw

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rning chchair

...te comiste la gorra.

- Cantinflas


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Volodymyr Bilyk

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Volodymyr Bilyk

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Lawrence Upton

Life still

cereal bowl, but no cereal in it;

stone slightly larger than a broad fist;

cheap vase with pink and yellowish flowers in it;

pepper grinder;

drinking glass containing cutlery, blades and tines pointing up;

a traffic queue of teapots along a window sill spanning an entire conservatory;

rain streams scattered across window panes;

trees, wind-bent, their juddering shadows in hearing, here, inhering

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