Lip Service by Bruce Andrews
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  BOTHERSOME that feelings fit others
                                  glaring certainty a rendezvous
                                  of copies nice to doodle up in style
embedded static counter-proof – well, I guess …
soft pet scald syllabic – exclusive figural hostage –
a single word from you would make me happy:
every sort of yellow is discernible stenographic
                                  pre-insignia corsage caption
recapitulation;
    legible mouth
gest erases tongue dumber ink talking diagonals
and unmoved lips – watch them hard
from invisibility, I don’t wish to be misunderstood –
                                                                speech as self-
                                  conspiratorial ettings
                                  underline helps half cut for confidence
tricks & devices make up my mind to embalm
pushing is such easy prey;
    Charm Master, let’s say I repeat mere outline of
somehow pumps
                                  look I like lose in looks
‘to become’ & ‘to appear’ are the same
                                  a contrario goof, a spell behaved
souvenir pinch painted wardens
scared to fake redress by projectile graphic lids
laid eyes on – what opals, what clovers, eye-level stress
imagery sale cipher fitted to inwards as if
                                                                into the distance:
                                  simulcrayon scopafidelity.
    My insomnia quarreled over nomenclature: narcissism
carries some obligations, some certainty of disregard
                                  distorts the earlier swans
                                  always trussed up apparent solitary
                                  inanimate silly squeak artificers –
not just your everyday lingerie pictures, Full Feature muscles
                                  against opinion
                                  he detects no irony, an inert appliqué
                                  fraction counterfeit whisper
flaccid bijou – personalize these eyelids, those hatched
                                                                out touches
squeeze it myself – Xerox terse chintz to go
                                  mirrored beyond repair
                                  unreal, deceitfully added,
    photo leans
                                                                fluff detail
                                  lately tourniquet
s’pose’s sordid shallow theme shallow cargo haunting on whites
play into soiled hands, invitation
is a looser, exclusion has its own rewards – sheen v’lume
                                  Artifice aborts
                                  frothy pornoptic
                                  sink & depict pupil;
    font flam shone counterfeit go awkward
crawling with tarts
primp within lean, falsely familiar
factless masks of masks
                                  camera invents to prod this host briefs
superimposed resists.
    You at least owe me a scene
sooner sudden bashful dissimulators accord addict
concavity photo sabre corner wonders fatal weird
combed to the front torsos enamor unperceived ribbed unevenly –
I’m not forcing cosmetics
up in price unattentively;
    scrape conveniently buzzer closer
                                  crinolined corrodes by whispering
spied as short out vulgar nothing optical beauty diction
by fusing a firefly gene, slender claws
                                  painted cupids at odds inflamed
                                  with the object glare from wire
wireless satisficer thoughts
are accidents inspired by entertainment.
    Marvel
                                  a lesson in swats it
blinded fraud acts con – (the lies are pushes
to their insulting compassion) – naively
                                  bait eager train to feign
                                  obduracy recoil
fake eardrums on a silencer lessons mistrust, says to me
                                  shadow multiplies the button slight
                                  keeps puerile with radar
                                  we have an understanding mewing taintedly
                                  don’t fidelity zip quiet superstition
& models just imitate them,
    did you say juiceless form or formless juice? –
                                  deflationary brush-stroke signs revolve
                                  of prank up fuels of:
darling iota, lush life – tall letters on hatbox
                                  vote accessorized with
                                  rarefying cleans up after doctrine –
                                  I want something I’m spurious
                                  about it I can turn off –
ornament sequels crime.
                                  Therefore like that …
                                  stable means deflated? –
                                                                glib stitch debilitating
                                  corpus fabricating premium fakery smear
                                  appease audible afraid.
    And I, code mine, loudness all over its junk
careless static
corrupt imagination’s passion brain peacock visor
for some reason it’s hard for me to imagine
                                  fitful forfeit ‘in order to’ demolishes
                                  compulsive extra, too much
elbow begins to write retinal fixing, energized by it, creases
humming crease-breaks:
    OK
                                  secretions of dissembling
                                  symptomatically facetious
                                                                transition needed –
                                                                another dim
only eyes more exhaust imagery holds the dissipation together –
                                  plethora pomp
                                  flimsily irradiated cerebral handjob
                                  makeup than the man innate eclipse
dishing visibility
                                  affect plus ultra tool-like melancholy
                                  content, stylized fuck facts, gall-outs
                                  nonspeaking crystal advertising head –
innate command form leased demise claws are honest
& objects are some circulating victims:
    our care with sufficers –
every fake looks flat, nothing escapes his inattention –
poly proper
worries apt court.