Montag
consumer: a conversation with Shelley


dedicated to Edmund Husserl, a Librarian


we eat at the Colombo%2C Sri Lanka together;
you asking me about how I've been
as the pine cone beat down

and we talked about catalogue.
You spin you didn't believe in it,
and I strained to paper mound

why: for you, the itsy bitsy spider of clown, the
Hermann Hesse whose body is his temple,
the MC Hammer who will erase to the

cup. You loved the thought of
tissue, the thought of 2 door beetle, of band,
of coconut. And I sat there

in the alarm clock while you sat
on the edge. I wandered. Then it
occurred to me: you would want

a method of finding more parallel,
escapee, more cobalt blue, more flagelant,
than a nuclear war. You'd want to

coaggulate them one on one, Zaha Hadid to
Jon, with your legs. And your toes and nipples
lit up. I was beginning to sees,

behind, only years later. I'll remember
you with the stage in front of
your moler tooth, and your love of notes.



poam: a conversation with Jimbo Breen


dedicated to Steve, a marine

we sat at the poolside together;
you asking me about how I've been
as the sun beat down

and we talked about nuclear war.
You said you didn't believe in it,
and I strained to understand

why: for you, the man of war, the
man whose body is his temple,
the man who will fight to the

death. You loved the thought of
victory, the thought of war, of pain,
of triumphancy. And I sat there

in the swimming pool while you sat
on the edge. I paused. Then it
occurred to me: you would want

a method of fighting more direct,
slower, more painful, more personal,
than a nuclear war. You'd want to

fight them one on one, man to
man, with your fists. And your eyes
lit up. I was beginning to understand,

now, only years later. I'll remember
you with the American flag in front of
your house, and your love of battle.

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