television poetry it's killing me

the inconsolable self the drinks
don't cause the crying is an end
in itself and the beautiful baby put
your arm around her she'll crouch
down you drink your water
from a glass shaped like a wine
glass

too repetitive (?)

what liquor
store can you go to can you buy
on a sunday no thankyou
no tuna we're italian money
gangsters literally
she's texting me and they watch
some game talking bloodshed
no war now war warning
bloodshed for this man
with a tv tray knows dead men
eats potatoes ExtenZe.








italian the language and men
handing women objects and yelling
at other men the slicked back hair
the mustaches but it's so much more
than that revenge michael anything what
can i do
settle these troubles
i don't understand
but you do you do you do you
probably do and it's just
you don't want to
these people (us, we) they never
want to, unless
let's hit 'em all

the name frankie
various childhood memories
ominous happiness, family heirloom
of a home like my lampshade (no
not that connection) and that phrase
we know (i know) i think you know. keep
your friends close and your enemies
closer. i want him completely relaxed
and confident in our friendship. then
i'll be able to find out
who the traitor in our family
[was]

how does this know? that i am me

that click pop of electronic device and thinking
the phone the phone
must have been on silent
or something as the mute tv
emits small sounds the silent
phone emits click pops but not
this time i think it was
the settling of furniture or the small
separation of matter some minuscule
level invisible audible

I love

that our president can talk about delivering justice in the form of a bomb and then stumble over the word totalitarianism. It really inspires pride and confidence.

song me a tune, something useful

The reason I think he is so unattractive

is his eyes, I think. They’re sort of
droopy. The face a house makes
classically consists of eyes
and mouth all square sort of
jack-o-lantern-like. His tooth

I think you mean. He’s sort of
ugly because of

his teeth. The second thing
I noticed besides the chin strap
besides being real -
that chunk of mud looking

like some god awful pre-historic
monster. An armadillo
or a large hyena, but humpbacked
for sure.