Lip Service by Bruce Andrews
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Sun     8

  IMAGINE eliciting crabs to think –
                                                                too memorable, don’t wake
                                  dynamite the exterior
                                  entrapment – Phrasemaker! – the image,
                                  too cha-cha for words –
can I say any more,
    less concentration is more
penetration strutting people
have softened their brains considerably
                                  leavening parasites with bright too late
                                  regard, chewably aphoristic
                                  inflammation speechifies
true blue not meant for lovers’ habituated disparities
to undress historically
an indelicate reference;
    imagine official odalisque
                                  orthopoetics – ain’t nothin’ shakin’ –
                                  innate curfew at a click glance
                                  domesticating crinkly malefiction to share
                                  deceit-suckled declension deceit;
    imagine overheard of hopping mad
gives head letters of recommendation
in mouth, lavish palped dismemberment formula –
griddle cakes fried on your lips to halt white spills
                                  desperately over-accessorized,
    if your lexicon gets any more housebroken,
publicity pronouns learn to make the writer’s signature:
                                  trial double linguistic encyclical
                                  overexcitability of indifference
                                  writing quitting
adjectivally slandered gelatin;
    emblems confined I tend to believe
                                  wind-up doll – profitless equilibrating
                                  a rounding variety
                                  difference we are bound to:
there’s nothing like a crisis for repetition;
    little farfetched? – a buoyancy-deflating doll
obvious distance enough dance
to identify breathless chronicling ballerina perforation –
                                                                what a cock salute! –
                                  it means never arising, no lexicon
                                  exceeds slush speed unnaturally
conscripted by it:
    self, grammatical faction, flattering
                                  aura to insult against experiences
diminished by oblivion use, null
                                  erects system all shatter
ought shatter all.
    Why is absence hollow?: to complicate the tradition
chiseling tame faking conversation
has acculturated the instance –
                                  they’re just lampshades –
pray for three nerve holders, sermonish ideal persons
retort mongrelized inquisatorial body
ideality – a lesbian Democrat was elected several months later,
                                  a mock minority shares each unless
                                  I do it to be part machine
                                                                absolute problem human.
    Exemplary force the non-thought
                                  message urgent motor-driven mood:
we are in no exhortation, a world of rigor at our throats –
fake time spreads tense patience uncaressing
subject dissolve, shortsighted, into positing
                                  theatrical kilowatts & then they pop –
                                                                is it over yet? –
genitals easily by haiku-like remonstrances,
                                  particular aphorisms act off, so
                                                                simonize that glance.
    There are rumors and that is bad
writing letters will make you
                                  mum’s the proposition
important? – turn opinion composed stanzas
out into chicken drippings, comatose, lah lah lah I wish
I’d never learned to read, novelty lottery
slink to talk tongue of the worrier
closed soon or clothes soon overstay male ego
                                  stays hidden for reasons
we have to keep a discomforted eye on –
                                                                yo, bedwetters! –
                                                                presumptuous speed
                                  eats the words you cannot even pronounce,
    and said:
mend our position errors to treat error badly –
                                  I would like to state quite clearly
                                  that I have no intention
                                  of responding to this –
impregnate every caption
with the sound of your ego
voiding, the answer is no …
(nobody says ‘NO’ any more, dear; do try to catch up) …
                                  synthesized fear invites me.
    Can these bores live? –
self-dramatizing confuses paranoia-tutored form
transvestized out interpret:
                                  generic lack of in-touch petting
air womb mimes itself in perpetual cheek
                                                                facts corner me,
    you want to be in contact with people in general –
                                                                right, enema audience –
you don’t want to be in contact with anyone in particular,
    bad antithesis demi-perjorative beauticians of war
curious about the makings of curiosity inhibited abilities
of ignorance – you’re not stupid enough
I’ll thaw out the embryo when I have enough money to raise it:
sideburns on a cage under these honesty creases
touching Jerusalem of misapplication illogic entangles
appliance unrest;
    we are the wound –
lithium conjuring
boundary privatizes
happening complexion galls, frenzy underscored falseness:
dry as in dry
nerves think for others
getting tired, tired, tired
                                  trickery could interpret
                                  polycentric annoyance itself –
universals squandered as objects.
    Fun as a waste & go –
what a crowded little idea,
that must have really hurt your brain thinking about that one,
                                                                if it’s so baby
                                                                parodic crest
                                                                curb unspeakable
                                                                inconvenient conclusion;
the talking kak per line fills me with compensation
cooling in parentheses: axiom jumps at me
                                                                (literal execution!) –
                                  what of – to superfluousify
Oh, shut up, I know what the next sentence is, OK?
                                  the plan lyricizes, automatism
                                  is perfect, as a vowel
                                  tongue ajar
                                  in itself
retro-touché.