Lip Service by Bruce Andrews
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Primum Mobile     8

  AFFECT altitude of familiarity crystallized fabric light
bends you aggrandize without glass, nonchalant levies smitten
                                  surveying spin – feelings magnetize method
worry bliss is maps, with housebroken slippage
                                  adequation to doctor distance:
    only joinless salve wound cult
swoon ends our curated hearts portable skies impeach
flagellactive spectacular ocular white & black balcony holdouts:
the tighter I grip, the higher my atmosphere.
    It’s High Time Timely Night – just guise
                                  certain higher dittos completely out of
sideways prenominative monopoly losses thwarted.
    Advent shines – Latent Encore Happiness Show
                                  neck certificate hurt chance
                                  but hands aren’t important, longitudinal
sighing ‘in case’ must be homeopathic memories,
    picture plane its salve as theater breasts clasped up
high once more, bouquet hunch all solid literally flexing compass
at all oversold on decor primer beyond.
    And I hate minutes, tunnel silence curb
absent immense chance floating monotone
nature fruits prick the Outlandish inflations;
    happenstance silhouettes ballet
                                  navigates like sugar in bottle –
                                  counter-touch disapparition
rotatingly calm dome swoons.
    It’s worth some venture connotation, a symmetry of
proportion impulsive tactical cliff plus impish creditor
                                  success, freely expand upon tangential
small-scale blue – what a dear ravishing;
    fixturable spread of blood breeding body perseverance –
maybe if there was a utopia … promontorily inexact interslashed
                                  Tied In Blue – rebus hope
semicircle in orbit as nuance.
    And Its A Dream –
validations counterposed to organicist yearning all process coats
                                  fortress size arena succulence
                                  walls of foil parentheses whisper,
    vernal soon prosecute coupon dreamt as an ovoid attachment
                                                                the facts cheat
                                  rarefaction – a slight vacuum
                                  horizontally spelling best & to check all
                                  porous zeal saturate in aloha
ribbons to duty light pins its accomplice;
    & we’ve demobilized the success story – Registrappage
                                  spun webs around the minute Elsewhere
so that you see this is no news – proximate fetters hub
its logic to train me some heredity.
    Numberless frolicking proof particular
                                  flagrant mosaic ceded iterative paradise –
                                  zip back & enjoy improper terms
guaranteed same two curvature.
    And spilt plane revulsion:
                                  I gratified the pendulum discretion
all else making shit speeding constitutive leveller,
    home is where the head bangs conditions:
foam a shimmering despite, chiffon reverb alighted
turbulent parole atoms in the whittled down
to a fierce thinness, over and out, wash away our tasks.
    Take your hesitation by the top
                                  pleats swell conversely low
                                  jettison line divided by heat
                                  careen replaces – it’s more
unobtainable when it’s continuously imprecise effervescents.
    Near to far ratio, cocoon horizontotalled silly;
                                  human spells hassle limbs bite
abandon, that great assignment, the dream of ambition
or the ambition to dream – psychic flowering
bedtime ceased corral.
    We are not impermeable – swallow spends aesthetically
jointed – any halt that spreads, stymied fleshing
                                  notches underbody – shack it up
                                  too seriously to skirt some free-for-all
casual point tournamented unitards galore.
    Bodily admitted distrust, precaution’s stability
wipes the belly from your eyes make useful opposers
live to multiply waxy reams I’m singeing, frustration follies
                                  float craves themself OK quartering as if
                                  hands it you We Do;
    & the indignity of our position in the body
voice-over in back makes our continued melancholy untenable
                                  through pockets inner to thigh
                                  from behind you broke the only heart
genie landscape returns to the head – excellent
fondness upturned.
    Proximity rubbing words have a face which talks
                                  Other = All far care ours truly
erotogenic the possibilities, disclaimer vibrating
                                  moisture suborns sense donation
stronghold,
    just enough so enough –
a svelting tendresse, I feel flashes, unpretending at halves
                                  offset privacy debarred new melt flesh
overthrows your trembling in our affection to become necessary
caramel of unlearn it effect.
    And I made an emotion about leaks
apparent wide to improvise
art tampers desire fondly fecund creases
absorb neither pure hands nor a sweetened heart
                                  soothing submerged & no less remoting
vain leisure regrouping the facial commotion.
    We exist, my body, unleavened color legend omits
vital noise of the collapsing bed cordoned off contrary fuse
                                  frequentably duration appeals to vises
distances accommodate, twilit extra after hues.
    Hello downward or outside silky plug
I’m sucked out – wheeled dry adieu violate blessing’s neglect
                                  experience act is not an aim
box ahead, graded differently, secrets communes boudoir
proportional vogue feelings chamois by the yard.
    Stocking absorbed it – time pass time – it pass
                                  perimeter worship humming surrender
                                  live surprise evolve toward
innocence instead of cheerleaders – purpose’s pedigree parents;
    thanks for piping by, subpoena unfulfill caress
respect their immobility – glands make a big fuss
about their destiny privated out angel exhaust
                                  short wave from anybody – I burned myself up
                                  with expectation gaze collectivizes;
    the crime is imperfection, transference taken captive –
                                  do over! – legs in the disappearance
pestering curtail perspective parties through & through
                                  flood at the valves of my hope, now you can’t
afford to be yourself.
    Trimming training perfect tears to pieces pierced
for production: dress rehearsal as what, nest rehabbing? –
                                  I must be fond of superior wetting? –
                                  silhouetted a ghost of a chance
                                  potentated, of silly passive inconveniences
behind your retort in the wings.
    The persecuted are ascendent: louvers system light fervor
                                  possibility cannot have too many levels
                                  to your personalities’ appellation of cure
put the limits of their acquiescence in boldface:
                                  create a conscience in the night! –
                                  books still dwarf the salves,
    gravitationally guaranteed lights that streak, lights
                                  that spin asteriskation
through presumptively improper means: subtract lies
                                  love distances, not ‘merely’ objective
glaucomaed distance;
    elongate the lack of limits sobbing closes up
files on the present, luminous packed a bit, the pro-dawn
                                  wand modulates the most credulity
severest flowering certifies in awe.
    It is a finishing touch – sufficient else
                                  future fleecing, twilight is wrong
nights – uncanniness temporally bereaved.