Man

one of favourite television programs is M*A*S*H, the seriocomic story of a
fictional Army medical unit on the Korean War front never see a M*A*S*H
segment without recalling my ‘medical’ career

not a career a job mucus streaming freely from his nose eyes etc he has two
right hands, two hats what are you going to do your free gas and irregularity
has been paid for hardee har har ah american sandwich chain ads bertolucci’s
desert contact lenses as if rectangular his name sounded like gallup

he’s an old man not the rockford of the 70s, snappy, now he has a thick belt and
she’s 33 years old and living like a nun! sob-sister

hospitals are full of profit and centres for setting off biological clock,
surrounded by sage,

families as awkward as they are on tv

george filgate territory, donald dransfield, guys in high school in the 70s in
northern alberta with slicked hair, unfashionable gwg jeans romanticize the
interior served up reflex quick fucking hick

hicksville territory to the max a three pick-up wedding, help written in paper
flowers on the tailgate, his jacket already off, going to finish his grade 12 &
only marginals walk around, kids, old, poor, native, realistic looking wounds
help for who bad acting grey gorilla hard to tell if it’s not a commercial for
liferafts

Hey my kid made a picture of a gorilla from a CD-ROM! fucking fridge gallery

yes gorillas appreciate natural beauty just like humans as they emerge from
orange tube tents

luckily the gorilla’s almost human, can talk with the help of a grey backpack
for fuselage bonding

quick take it off so she can rejoin the others – phew human technology isn’t so
intrusive after all, but sitcom soap opera sweat they walk through a greenhouse
surrounded by people in fake fur and get the headache 2 partners left last night
why didn’t they take me

mutt meryl streep wannabe is no john wayne and the k.s. mine looks
like a disney hotel

how to stop the vulgarization of a yuppie theme park you love – bring ’em in
museum wallpaper

Marky Mark’s underwear line instigates rampant fucking: her father has a
computer and glasses so we’re sure of his class and shoulders remember when
everyone was ethnic? Let’s kick her ass read as harrassment not a snipped link
in the sinning chain, honk if you love private prisons and public poverty. Sane
shining take all those flying foam rubber cocks what use are they abs filled
with discarded tits and cunts nowhere where can you buy an as-well-stocked sex
shop don’t think so no let’s tighten our scrotums and get the job done stick
that finger up his ass and ask for a raise again for the discerning consumer of
hangnails cancel the gunsel let’s say poetry’s for fags and homos what does that
say about foot fetishists reverse pedophilia wrinkle stilt skin

make moron poor encaustic panting harris mean
an english canadian accent not a canadian accent

access or pit one against the bother tillicum
maul maker marquee to rhyme with tardy

cantilevered: bottomy out heterosexuals she’s heavier than she
tho neither has hair pour cement harrassment her
rasta cement cake over the pie or case nor shower shaved knorr

soupçon come and lick it split eager beavers for grants
and end up – where? – in libraries and classrooms?

or corpulent tailor-made whines, bureaucratic sellout
can’t even focus on the grime on the window
let alone that looks beg and but one above buildings

a child crisis took her for everything she was worth
single mothers fly to close the flame of the fella’s

what are we talking about here?

from lens to slot her dyke, a formidable opponent one the less
mackerel raincoated cartoons boxes teach with guards at your side
see if icarus blew it bigtime chez vous pal
hobnob with the best brass it makes no nevermind fucking burton
view palmoil celled lexuses and who wants a window with no holes
comparisons with no compo fallacies to better your lies without
slipping the syllable shift with a capital allowance cherchez l’argent
keep the stacked tyranny captain submarine cultures smell like stacked meat
let’s say it worked & you were alive to see it work it was working already was
the problem making it work & if it works better less then what no name notoriety
can it go that big that way

                & stay the different

safety break
                not debarked lumber

puke in each other’s mouth as a recycling gesture

rock on kamloops on rock on kamloops ice machine on
the sugar snow satellite dishes rock on mickey swimming pools
sgt. flaherty’s chevrons cold desert loud organic arid facing view
tacky motels track golf carts as work vehicles rich acres
not like owning a corner downtown feet in the air
but newly landed looking out & owning the view master
truck wedding help in flowers on the gate what are
we talking about here she bolts no stiffeners required pay
a ransom to have a family again throw a skull
cracker at that sucker orange peel bucket a hard squash

the tenor scrape of a lid on an empty grave
a hole in a flag suddenly term spirit gulag sells
former holidays bitter we’re hoping for an angel tree
aging stalag insist the crime video shows her tan fringed
flatwear rug berm i love to see the sailors when
they’re not there sewing mammal syllogism fucked internet patches before
puberty a wetter sweater damn kids & their j-pop knowledge
give ’me the boot but he doesn’t know industrial health
& safety regs a new opium pipe of deer bare
a feather end hairdo bung up on the flying farm

a caul ritual on the ledge of the bash barely
edge of the bush a used car lot in labrador
a cross unknown volkswagens float stick brand sticks as
lined and signed hockey stick blades like incense holders ball
signed Dave hockey stuffed in his mouth a with the
dyke punk novel drunken nights around Clue those who find
the bodies death is suicide for i miss you a
lot every you, it’s so shitty down here i wish
i could be up there with dad sewed up my
womb tight my baby’s bleeding down my mouth from the

lawn of polished resin skulls t-shirt rake up those eyeballs
off an invisible goat’s rains down the muck mucous red
hail and hitler’s shitty sister what is writing to someone
whose dead father – what’s the difference talking like a
dentist or continually christening stop just put that rug in
your own mouth wear blue jeans paul satire the dust
pan on the carpet orange gaping ’moon’ put down julie’s
d burrow’s vincent’s a tepid coffee drool moves buy an
american tree for cheaper library owner pisses on us free
skating and a lacking screws in there the slapshot or

blades emblazoned with fibreglass tape honey hockey stick stink ’some
narration’ ruptured black the same in spanglish sometimes pro’s hurt
or for short story rat man or your rat mom
leave you would you rather leave your miles landing death
landing death by committee resistance is futile to the collective
to a naval post with smug potatoes as if they
were handcuffed your own beeswax