Steve Halle


boomlet


my pocket is in my heart it’s protected. empty. barren. barred. below average. my black pen left. inkwell gone. dull. the thrill of writing with saliva. outside a door-a-man swingconnects. the plastic zero-ones. if


memory gets digitized it’s in its infinite infancy. horn rim & tape me please up salonist. ubi sunt my eyelashes. these welts form statistics. the


government or some private. body is always. looking & being. looked at. bundled sins. boxed pens. sleepwalk. a pin prick-a-time they hoboed a pen


train leads to desperate shapes. mop & bucket marches. if Sitting Bull is what Simon says it’s more dangerous in his dead mind than a photographic


ever-after. i see you where your spirit’s fairy-trick imposes your happy ending upon the felt-up proletariat. these women. these women. dawn


emboobs the afterpocket of sleep between sleep. philosophy undoes so many i had not thought so many i had not thought. in these many is not


matter. pay it no mind. when i imagine my own nipponized peace. no one told Trane In & Truck On to focus among lemoned moonlight. express lines


flood markets shot-beer lunches are bygone. i will square off & dig in & call my shot & swing & shoot & spout off & bruise & you will be dissatisfied. no


matter what seats it sets down in. i’m not a polymath; i’m a sound-alike.


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