Mark Young

Mark Young

Mark Young's most recent books are the May 2024 free downloadable pdf to your scattered bodies go from Scud Editions, One Hundred Titles From Tom Beckett, with paintings by Thomas Fink, published by Otoliths in June, 2024, & Alkaline Pageantry, published by Serious Publications in September, 2024. His The Magritte Poems will be coming out from Sandy Press later this year. Mark recommends the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.

Polyps spawn on the lawns of
the State Capitol in Sacramento.
An annual event; but nobody
​bothers to count. Lots of guesses,

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Provided they came 
in fancy wrapping, the 
German intellectual 
of the interwar years
could perceive utility 

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signs of the Black Death can still be
seen. Now a bittersweet place, that
neither technology nor the rapid con-
​sumption of shooters can transform.

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Start at the top of the list
& work your way down.
Social opportunities are
​increasingly circumscribed.

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                             The gnomes are bored
                  with being enigmatic. Have
                                   dumped the seasonally
                       changing menu &
                            its old world sensibilities—

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Oblivious of her nakedness
she went racing through the
airport, shouting out that
they were adding weapons on

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indeed, as if there
were some other
direction to arrive
from, light rain or not.

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One of the film's main musical
themes was illegal, the group of
upper-level undergraduates in
geography, sociology, & Chinese

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No such thing as information
hardware when you go skinny-
dipping. All soft, no mix &
match, show some flesh or show

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Because of either infinity or
invisibility — the translation
is unclear — there's been a lot
of jelly crystals downloaded
recently around the world,

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To speak in parable, the
most vintage smoking
paraphrenalia is super light
& packable because it lets
you leave the poles behind.

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"It is not my fault if you cannot understand what it is I am going to be talking about, if you lack the duende necessary to understand my poems on the run."

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Someone has gifted me an
astrolabe.  I use it to determine
the distance between the end
of one line & the next.  Its

ethnicity changes daily...

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(Cy Twombly triptych, an
innocent & pre-
plastique Michael
Jackson concert, a
touched de Chirico).

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