PRESSURE PRESS ARCHIVE

1994 DISK STUFF

writing to balance bottle song suddenly, wait

typing with a headache

a manner of history

after bukowski

quieting myself

come the revolution (part 25) S K Y L I G H T

writing to balance

pre-dawn birds loosen
the blueness of blackness turning away

dropping a dozen keys & a thousand pebbles
onto tin roofs anklets belled & skipping for

the full sun & mourning-dove horror lipped like
delirious owl-dream opera a suspended missile feather

whistles
& the god of all this

earth
groans, the god of all this

biology
breath monotony symphony

tickles
spring finches & radiant robins

laughter
laughing after dreams

we sing
again

we throat
the clear sunrise

bottle song

i lift it up
up
i tilt it
slow
down
down
splashing in a shot-glass
juice of my flight
pollen of liquid gold
a vibrating glove
over my head
whip-snapping master mistress
silk on fire my soul wears

suddenly, wait

b-movie shit-eating dicks
in a gray world
lacking hard-ons
grew chivalrous
until old-age poverty
has them staring
at the morning sky
skeletal
almost skinless, cloudless

typing with a headache

before dawn i step a few steps
from myself

bourbon bottle asleep on
bottom of the bed points bathroom

booze as compass
directions abound

in this intense
magnetization

human
adapted to earth-gravity

mutates
thru error

& error
& error

human
is everything possible

including
limitless vomit

the muddy shine
of comet-balled soul

a manner of history

all green a globe greens
from magical blue

waters, clouds
saturated green

the green
planet earth

envy
for the clear blue millenniums

distances
from impossibility, time

to
simmer

green
tea god

after bukowski

to believe all opposites
of pain exist
is certainly naive
unless we mention morphine
& vastly
underestimate the final
moments of brain awareness

everybody's guilt is this acid-eating blob monster
secreting so much of itself it weighs the clouds so low
every adult has sizzled hair & there's no way into the tree-tops
anymore anywhere on earth, we have altered a planet, we have grown
glass fingers, we have shouted war-torn god down into penultimate
futility admitting nothing's left of christianity & the lies to herd the
masses were political & jesus was more brazen than truthful & humanity
has been choked by mass religion right asshole?

& then there's, here's this, silence

quieting myself

"i want to shout!" tribulations
exorcise shit, to extend feeling of pain past my teeth

to boogie thru rolling car-wash music & wet mornings
sponge-like absorbing liquids of the world

& to piss, to piss long & hard & eruptive yellow bubbles falsetto my
popping blood-count carbonation under space-craft g-force slashing thru

dark space meat with a red-hot nose poker obliterating molecular debris
with inhuman speed-fuck penetration remains some dribbles twirl like

iridescent worms, sulphurous & hissing atomically & what's discovery
but thrill urine racing from flesh hose, released unto morning shiver

& the look in the mirror
eyes of a conga drum seeing thru a clock

& smoke
& stars of light

come the revolution (part 25)

after m.r. doty

come the revolution devolve a canon of coffee-cups a lawn of gasping
whales a tree of actresses a hat for a big toe de-construct the laughter
of wasps the dogs of limestone the weakening algebra of egg

come the revolution there will be drummers inside raindrops that tap
tympani-stretched skin on the white arm of a black girl slaughtered by
tribal hate & she will jump from the pavement & do ginger rodgers

ice-skate over blood & she'll never think jesus she'll be wrapped in
bells & hemp come the revolution sharks will soften into gray mush which
baffles scientists, not one theory is even proposed for the sudden mush

of this creature come the revolution a gun dances horse-like,
snake-like, erect cock-like running the walls in a large white room
completely isolated forever come the revolution televisions will glow

orange in holograms like blind ghosts viewers become, orange & awed come
the revolution our third eye will sprout, rip & heal
on the tips of our noses

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