Lip Service by Bruce Andrews
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  BLOOM went ineffectual page
                                                                crack fainter
nothing retinal unfed specious gown, incurably senseless
                                  style masks the mound, commends what
threadbare vocabulary sloped sans-serif cannot –
too masculine lease on syllable
                                  for words, jack-of-all Valor
    every aeration occulted in emptiness
that draws everything to itself.
    What part of your body gets top billing? –
                                  it remains a picture theory:
                                  when you see this symbol, color
is just an advertisement for reality by rote
                                                                Scrit
                                                                Tres
                                                                Teas
                                  Rose Adios in the present
                                  we are struck dumb calm looming
                                  apprehended oculocentric tricks –
perceptual accuracy does matter; peep shows, for instance –
give stars aroma;
    Look Tom Look
                                  white glove iceberg horresco referens
                                  snowflake stoppage form
took a paid vacation & I got the drippings less picturesque
visible accent will out.
    Pics melt letter, part of the body
detachable hysteric transom lingo cleft foreground
on stilts over a cigar-shaped area:
                                  misinformative
                                  evasions as much
                                  maimed by testicular
representation as if tautening diorama –
oblique arousal of the arbitrary postmodern = scrim
                                  muse attracts lint repetition:
                                  men with big wads
circular fiction of legible glitz requires repair
follow me home.
    Orthography primping heat head disguise maps –
                                  the portraiture had oozing errorish
                                  chimney harness, bella gravure brazen
brains with noise pubes growing out of its stutterings
writ white lips lean to prism twister tradition;
    immense discoloration site obscene many tame
count on smear heaven in the gels
                                                                in vain,
                                  head performs desultory angle
coughing ink so busy trying to make his presuppositions
into men.
    Now grieve to belittle flare lamented open
                                  even after the flakes are gone
                                  nor the knowledge that could breed doubt
                                  minimally decapitated –
                                  you’re close enough for adjectives –
each prelim hole betrays its marker
                                  none of which spreadeagled mouthpiece
                                  phrases manure the thing nature swallowed.
    We are just beginning to know nothing:
fictitious conjecture who crawls inattention –
                                  hey, toasterhead,
forfeit invisible logarithmic modest niche
                                  stockinged goose of gab:
jellied question
cares for itself blackening question mark,
                                  it’s a hot-button issue
                                  cookie cutter in the mind
                                  babies’ wish, tap own heads
amassing cavity crabs’ retrieval perfectly small.
    Chimera models brain, looks uncomfortable
                                  contriving lure expires its outline
                                  false abides imprint
glassine stupor nominal lights, measures,
    symptomizes word order faking ultras passionless complaints:
scribbles wrapped numbers wreathed to flatten
dome’s acquaintances
    and I
                                  I your mind’s a blank –
                                  forgot the meaning waste detail denial
                                  jitters means ‘thought’ lightning
                                  fingerless rumor disappointed artifice
                                  outside indifferently inside now I fake
                                  process apercus.
    ’s Yes concealed idea needs
lube coagulates air with its
                                  (pop pop pop pop) goes my mind
missive thoughtlessness, exorcize how infinite
clearing opens sensical go-between talk –
                                  tension jet image
medium of proof skin gains
hurtful, clairvoyant anal-compulsive head,
                                                                tab splurge.
    They turn the lights out & you think it’s to take
his intimated apparition
without him seeing them – least last debris
star awful purple head is halt – never prettied
                                                                lensing factual
                                  paleness clone is the curse, substitute word
                                  not by color, pretends to make strange
genie secrets showing!