new poetry and poetics edited by brian kim stefans - Arras.net

That.. . take. Don’t it?
“Quick enough, Nestl??”
“Govern with me, govern with
me.” Or speak with your American hickory hammer, or forever hold your peck-
er out
for a hand, Mr. President.
I beg to infer, as set forth in this institution,
that the claps will divide the house equally
and echoes go to illustrious officeholders of yore
in the castle that jams a lot
with “tisk-tisk” for trumpets, and puppets with
ventriloquists for
vice-presidential bores. “My name is—”
trillin’, for Trillin?
Hear the people sing do, do-do, do-do
right between the tweeters
on your set, and ready to
/ “Along Spondee Blvd”
buy buy buy!
I say hello! one day
along Spondee Blvd
if the finger holds (—untold!). My fame is—
useless, anonymous, autonomous, vestless (why not vestless)
DESTROY ALL FILM
Shake those flakes ‘n’ bake those takes.