Self

Speakeasy

Chirality - Rae Armantrout

Rae Armantrout If I didn't need to do anything, would I? Would I oscillate in two or three dimensions? Would I summon a beholder and change chirality for "him?" A massless particle passes through the void with no resistance. Ask what it means to pass through the void. Ask how it differs from not passing.

Maybe the miniscule city in the grass is a character. The idea that it may be vacant, as is the campus, which is not a college campus at all, but rather for something else, something State-sponsored. A break from electronics--the internet is down. No TV, no phones. Where is he and why are none of his peers there?  (He realizes his unique position; uses it to explore; has no peers.) The unsettling silence is not that but a comfort, and who knew?

Maine Seafood Company

by Matthew Dickman




(Salt)

A LOBSTER.
           Once out of the box
           The wooden box
           The metal box
           The box, the box, the box
           Dragged up from the salt

           Things don't feel too bad

           And then they do

           And then they don't

(And waves)

Shane Shane

ain't give no fuck
bout no qur leastside gal
got yr nutsup in a bun
&i saw yr hole
gimme somethin to talk about
like lovin shane,
wait for you three blk from home.

hit me withyr wet spot.
yknow, the real stuff ydon't claim
makin me hard to say much.
thinkin i love yr smart wrestlin
&we all saw yr hole--

jyyysm