"Tu Ti Spezzasti"

I

Of all people perforated by health bars
eaten to prefabricate a justice system
bamboozled by an organized tooth fairy for our needs and holiday offering
the Rangoon Deli opens its horse works
tampers with college operating system playgrounds
telescopes to omnibus fealty a preset magnitude
 
Of all people the breathing incurs change machines and exact change
tollbooths chewed both ways for their annoying visits
 
Of all people in plastic hearth booths and old sewing factories
the onus on the inability to brigade through avenues of displaced
 
Of all people the breathing incurs the health bar
taking locks and ramming them to some conclusion
preset to our holiday information
 
Of all people most timely
organized through a watchword a handle a revealing pick
you see torsions peck in the holiday foxtrot
a random dispute over elegant timothies
pearly Dwight
divine sandwich shop a beacon
 
Of all people to pork this butcherblock basketball court
reassert the primacy of Virginia
signposts on the way to desert telepathy
quaking “destiny’s journey”
 
Of all people the bronze demonstrates a healthy disrespect for breathing apparatus
a timebound element in the rising afflatus
all-day furniture and bog people
Tucson by nightfall broken for people to enter in a thousand places
 
Of all people the first to piece together
the imminent dissatisfaction
arm’s length hollows to polish through the nose
 
Of all people reason coagulates and then separates into components
bland elements in a harmony
false teeth in the midst
 
Of all people the most true to rice
alcohol for logic and andirons to rest on the persuasive test
the murled orifice locked in disharmony
donnybrook and all
hollows and all
rising
setting
with exquisite what
 
Of all people phoned for his implacable defeats
regulated within an inch of his life
and then released to highway robbery
logistical perforation
runaway sign language in Gog or Oz
almost impregnable in right-of-way tolerance
legged out to all get-out
this go-by
 
Of all people farmed within liability
pried at surprisingly small cost
 
Of all people rock solid standard issue
registered so many times the pumice
the rice example and handbag discount
the total horizontal image tree
eaten through before the reading
lessened only by a layaway infrastructure
tilted onto a boys room tricycle factory
ominous in celebration
 
Of all people the possibility emerges and lingers there
this pointing neither one way nor another
within wraps very much within
and Puerto Rican and oiled to hopscotch
this berm so hard to understand for long
beneath our crops and repeal
teal leggings so duplicitous
the force needs a hemisphere for its oggles
to rasp and linger in the swelling
candystore’s wee hours
when it’s best to leave before testifying
 
Of all people so asked through to sponge
The right hospital without any fine tuning or ripple effect
Time for those crispy seas to leave their smorgasbord
 
Of all people the principle compromises
tasks for apple openings
regulate honest-to-goodness cipher
to empty the sorry sessions and pile on hoity-toity art things
you know you know how possible rivals answer the host
they polish their severance
toy an alligator
the icing
 
Of all people iron core
dogged for lopping
 
Of all people onioned in their gills
and sung to the house without disdain
soda for church and cyanide
for potatoes wouldn’t sink to the level
required for onions oiled to the top
 
Of all people Jonah spake
baked tennis and forked Tabasco
termagant oats
smooth patterns
on imeing

II

In the world taste breaks a barrier
and synthesizes something originally outside itself
not Nuremburg or opera house pork
the Breckenridge of hopes and silver escalators
songbirds rotten in one insignificant part
hostage to unjustified fears
diming in the rising hindmost billboard
long sanctions and honest signpost to traces of—
 
In the world before wrong sounds and sights
feelings peeled and reasoned to an inch
breaks and the terrapin pelvis
for everyone to ground to powder
and then Rasputin the leggings
 
In the world prospered to a cryptic crisp
demonized for amusement’s sake mostly
if a pullback materialized
if a rainmaker slipping in a drying puddle
 
In the world perforated by a beautiful doggone ice
pixilated within an inch of aromas
and shamelessly abandoned to rice
without pride of place or peals of time
to temporize the prime location
of this ironic placement
this disorganized incitement
to lock up the bestial silliness
and ring solvent upon solvent
in an effort to paralyze the psychology of a number
the racetrack in everyone’s backyard
poised for greatness for so long
such a two-faced representative
of the fulfillment of our responsibilities
whatever they dredge from regions sublime and pricy
bathed in time solutions too speculative

III

I know oil brings this peace to our holiday
     I know toystores’ teeth
I know thingumbob incunabula
     I know hapless pork and pontoon
I know hellebore raisins
     I know the suitcase for all wrongs
I know an olive toys with the angry patooties, and then, well, the registrar
     I know the sambulation pursues an ironclad fastening
I know the taint in the ample hawk
     I know how a cocoon can eat away at animals
I know the horror in the hambone, meal ticket and unstable dressing gown
     I know purple smears the tissues through a contraption
I know there was an egg inside a hollow
     I know beyond any possibility of samba
I know inside every box, inside the rightful
 
     I know saints persist to a pile
I know this perfect algorithm, this impregnable holiday from alligator keys
     I know the undersides of a shack
I know falsehood reigns more beautiful than truth, the unreal is infinite and the real finite
     I know after every rendition, interrogation
I know perfect peace reads the times of tomorrow to argue the Pete from its sinusitis
          eminence
     I know the world will take its oil
I know the perfect pure
     I know the song soars only to hightail into its suitcase
I know the sauce presents a reason to disabuse these heavens of their savor
     I know ranks prosecute teeth
 
I know this hurt seems to cringe
     I know segments pressurize and emulate the highway in certain neglected times
I know purely in the Rangoon of our hope
     I know for health to people purple

IV

I follow you without legislating rhyme or fillip
expressive beyond seminal Dunkin
And force field major ordure
I follow tandem butler and all-night soda
broken by a Caligula
I mean an irregular sandwich bar toystore idea
prosecuted and lumped into a red with Peggy
no no-no-no follow-up breasts
represent vesicles to prepare the dish
you know the tell
the soiled poice on the buggywhip
soup of every Tetragrammaton
every which way the demon sandwich girl
boy to armies of holidays
and oilcans singing in their timing chase
so the tug pressed down on the orange
Tupperware of our baser designs
 
I follow you doorman
placeholder in the great game of chance
opening in the partition
the micturition
I follow you Rangoon poolhall
ice cream peace and Jesus
border tuna
 
I follow you for Pauline epistles
and irregular Samizdat
date certain
and ivy
geysers
no pellicle
 
I follow you
negotiated
with a perfect
and essential
clearinghouse
of
legislated annual
hunting grounds
you see sensors
table manners
escalate
this holiday
hophouse
and then where
 
I follow you huntsman
helmsman
singer of swifts
annual curtain
choice of
pelvic
 
I follow you most impressionistic
incapable of capturing
 
I follow you damaged beyond poyba
sluiced through
a talk
total
brainpan dynamo
all for time
to trike
alright
go play
homage
to the piece
eaten
 
I follow you
this oil in the gizzards
telephone
and popular solvent
in the event of
an ominous turn
in the belletrist
harmonica duct
 
I follow you Ritchie
how else can we see it
brace and cigar
silver offal
orange pileup

V

Once the kitchen crown sat unreachable
polished fort and all-night sing-along
the register in our proper boss and ring
found and delivered again
this time most hungry
most hungry of all
when eggs prime the sleep
 
Once the bishop points to all night
race into the Louis
same pockmark
same Bregman inside the elevator to ninepins
 
Once I led you horses to the deranged summit
Once I led you breaking the bone
Once I led you cold call and prepped
Once I led you through simoniac demons
sugars to hold the roofs and androids to prosper for an unspecified amount of time
all very commendable in its parking lot
only protected by a theory
(a principle to live by
a principle for someone else to live by
It’s all so complicated, isn’t it
the way we changed places
changed places again and again
each for our own very different reasons
That’s the way people are
They do the same thing for different reasons)
 
Once I led you foster and polished
enjambed
 
Once I led you to the Pelham breezeway
officious and—
Once I led you poopy and hillbilly
ready range and helpful exchange
purse for salvation and syllables
unhealthy topic
Once I led you to the smokehouse
sweet water
milks
Once I led you poited for rice
and chocolate on the leg
Seminoles back after piece
 
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Once I led you homogeneous and silver and olive and benefiting from a certain
     promiscuous pillbox
 
Once I led you through hallways to the ultimate prize
the disagreeable intransigent elephantine polished rooster of our hope for change
well you know what protocol passes for variety
the pool pooling benefits from a partial vibration of the tracheotomy
still bread and butter piecemeal tangent
legislature hophouse factory cigarette and all-night flow
…around hollow organs for oily rows to elephant pregnancies
 
Once I led you singing through the silver placemat
Once I led you to poil inside this smiling bime of our rickrack
on on going on without holiday sandwiches beef reek
becuz this is old as the hills and young as the soup
prime dicey eagle eye steambath ship
 
Once I led you through the solvent into the torrid pause of our elephants
they baked a special cream into vinegar and oiled the songbook
equated science and building and who in the end was qualified to disagree
 
Once I led you without polish or presence to arrogate belly
and Paul for rommon
 
Once I led you to reassess
the Bellin icicle time boy
Once I led you through force four
Pauline semicircle
nonfinite….
 
Once I led you talking of wholesome science brightness
fell alligator of our holiday workshop
Once I led you to practice an unsubstantiated
and they puked that vitamin
Once I led you breast and hearth bone sandwich
evil sign language languors for solvent hatchet songbird
pellicle of our soy braising devildogs
Once I led you for heaven knows seven or eleven
or reason beaten by bright hellebore
boiling inside all voice boxes
teaked to the dream Peabody sign language and one fine penitential pestilence
 
Once I led you to the sink of this disinfectant
relishing a heavy hungry insoluble comic
a pause in the basketball
and without an opposite field
a posture so breathed and fibbed
porked and alighted
sign language and hunger in Hungary
the end that wasn’t the end
a time sale penchant for registered apples and lemons
 
Once I led you to gates written with purple right and onion
a long alligator in her heart of hearts
fell rest stops ransomed for a balk a dog

VI

You belly to the suitcase and throw off a thousand
inside the first Thanksgiving of our foresight
inside the lackluster target
the insurmountable incremental
 
You furrow
and egg on the pirates
 
You really can’t answer the ribbon
the riboflavin
of a heartbeat
and the tasteless representation
 
Your right cheekbone objects
the password has been stolen and passed around
all out there
 
You blank the hill town
and prestidigitate until the once and future sandwich shop flexes its muscles
and changes the government of the safe haven
this eggshell this hysteria
on top of a hand grenade for healthy teeth
 
*
 
You cry from a particular bone above the eyes
the horn to its conclusion
the birds prepped for a distinction
cosmopolitan in its hankering for that easternmost place
the signs running through numbers
answering these pincushions
with a roundabout
roustabout
most ingenious combination
of salt and sugar
sugar and salt
 
You cry an infinitesimal house
ice on irregular torches
Hellgate inside the Pleasant Valley Sunday
of our omnibus fears and hopes
carefully packaged throughout the rind and insinuated into the national psyche
a pioneer in the precise region
 
You cry throughout the open passage
the region lying underneath
the polygon inside the box
the Monmouth self-protection league
every racket a fragment of the great crime
 
You cry the filters predate this underwater Orange Revolution
held together by rubber and an ominous substitute for leather
the Holy Grail, the onetime Holy Grail in this distribution
 
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You orange the purchase for its elemental togetherness
wracked ice and the running tab of possibility
of positivity
of ponyability
You see, inside the drapes of this bollixed fumarole
the sun neglects one of its lesser duties
and the tilling
 
You didn’t destroy the polygon
or its destiny
on the road
 
You didn’t destroy the self-regulated system
 
You don’t know about the brotherhood and sisterhood