Issue #20 (2011) PDF - myweb - Long Island University

Uche Nduka
HALF PAST ZERO
no hard feelings i said but good times won't roll not tonight. antimacassars will cuss out your salon.
Narcissus is always there for you and your shrink to dissemble. kindly RSVP to worms of celebrity. a
bean a gorge a martinet. hope for help for a repressor. footprints of speed on a postage unpaid.
where did you stash it. niggardly in riot. ant-line of road-menders. once before:while a man sought
how to live. signal from a stand-up comic. hope for help for tuberoses and chickadees. to see this
city afresh & listen. with ink-stained sphincter. with hiccoughs . whatever note you've peeled from a
broken door. i don't want to make this crow suffer. i only want it to build a new tent for me. & for
jackass and pumper when they lean into a juicier hosanna. suppose he thinks he will be fair to what's
not him or his. all fabrications guaranteed. was that when he got maxed out slicksters to do his
bidding. a hairy ringmaster walking between sandbars. & a fence brews a future. whichever way you
go there is a clench to break. someone's looking at the sky in your right palm. moving ahead carrying
fishing poles the circus horse living in your spine. for they are not there among the crowd don't
know what's going to happen. crushable a smidgen of it. tests for cheesecloth on plinth.
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