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Marc Nasdor

Selections from Insurgentes / Avenues

08
 
Additional Menhaden Problems
 
          No one fails
          to uncouple this year
          or no species fails
          to capture its number
 
          As parental proscriptions bully
          as one failure organizes
          its legislative raspberry--
          cheerful Bronx Cheers
          whose notes blow motes
          off their sequences with a frequency
          that makes readers break off
          & shit themselves silly
 
The god of really cute origami genitalia
speaks to us via purchasing power of prudes
& their mirror-image sluts—a male-gazey
 
f-bomb of flying brassiere lint, pitched
down a well through a portal to monogamy--
then pees a cold tunnel drip that saturates
 
a partner-farm anyplace outside Manhattan.
Where are the cops when partners project
hardening fists into their partners’ extremities?
 
          Heads bleed efficiently
          yet cauterize in minutes
          & where significant others
          flee the animus
          manage the bits of
          of not much at all
          profess not to obsess
          on the block’s girthy cock
          while scarfing a taste of the palace phallus­
          as handlers train handlers
          to defend client’s honor
          but once privates unpalmed
          simply dump the old heaters
          & escort the perps
          being led down the aisle
          in proximity bracelets
          &c.

 
 
09
 
Joints Across America
 

          “En la casa de tu esfínter!”
 
          Brain cells hover
          over big breakfast table
          for Morning of the Crystal Meth                                                             
          Lap Dance
 
          Love sinks back
          into liposuctioned pincushions
          couches not known
          for dissembling here
 
          This year
          a poem’s deflating basis points
          necessitate steep parataxis premiums
          congruent to E. coli diffusion rate
          off original imprint [your contracts]
          & consequent implants (your cataracts)
          tripping & over oneself to fall into
 
          Or one’s jaw opening similarly
          to ingest in proximity of
          contraindications
          blown through a black-ops
          internment—amusement--park
          waterboard-flume-blast-
          your-face-off attraction
          thankfully willed
          to extinction’s rot
 
          Studying “Feasibility
          of the Cottage-Based
          Meth Lab”
          one becomes
          exhausted enough
 
to refrain from ever leaving one’s spot
& steering a search for another; & that
art-whore downstairs thinks his irony
 
won’t get him kicked in the gooch, much
less kissed in the sock-wallet. “How morbidly
spineless!” sighs the rattled Billing Czar.
 
“Please, does Ritalin work on a fifty-year-old?
Just asking.” Buckle up, ‘splainer, the film
of your demise has entered 2nd year litigation.
 

 
22
 
Insurgente Takes a Dump
 
 
          Subjected & predicated
          now append record
          of hir action/inaction
          & goad the abyss
          to embody that actionable
 
          First of all nadie
                                      second its position
                                                                      third unnaturally
          accountable to thus
 
          How future Insurgente
          turns up hir face
          from Conduit-of-Squealing-
          Over-Unwashed-Appendices
 
          Possible to upload
          hir business beneath it
          while stropping its cutter
          on expository arm?
 
          & to dust
          to its surrogates
          to the needlessly flummoxed
          into just-as-redundancy
          & after that factually   
          into their bodies
 
          “…hang by the neck until dead” then repeat
 
          Or hang by a proof
          by its augmented evidence
          real versus real versus
          other versus questions
          versus you will not argue with settled law
          really?
 
          In the loom
          which is “which-where”
          where where has conjoined
          itself to its -withall
          & accumulates which to where if it will
          its object: to calibrate
          subject: abhor
 
          Insurgente moves to overstep discourse
          & shoots (isn’t that? isn’t point? isn’t this?
          & make certain that it is, or is otherwise?).
 
          Roll off belief & bequeath it suspended. Bathe 
          into purity (applicable here) & perjure delight--
          need you ask? A suggestion: inform them
 
          who’s retained to slough damage; & if no
          use of strength, light removes / knobs suffice,
          though it seems no one tells us the difference.
 

 
36
 
The Moral Weight of Spandex
 
 
          & the first one who pushed back
          erased the sullen orphan
          but were there not more of them
          poised to do damage?
 
          Cognizant of congregants
          pissed off into confluence
          which among them broke out
          of line to spawn enthusiasts
          or knew even then what was offered?
 
          Emblematic instance of
          pure putrefaction
          fires itself higher & hangs there
          for waitstaff to gather anew
          thought bubbles pop shut
          pronounce end of story
          what seldom gives wisdom
          once irons go irony
 
          Deciders in suits beget
          deciders in diapers
          frightening tho’
          who wants to think about
          contents of stomach
          after concrete or staged expiation
 
          Connivance rules
          issued under verdict
          w/compulsory garnish
          heroically recalcitrant defendant bites back
 
          “Enter me judgment-proof
          detect Uncollectable
          & make effort to wheedle
          fresh currency out of me
          Formerly Invisible
          Playmates!”
 
Facing its endgame, collapse triggers manifest,
requires no action or tiresome dickering,
anything more viscous than slack. Debtor,
 
may you walk; may we all flee together,
mooning the creditor broke to insolvency,
bemused at its disco slave’s slavering.

 

40
 
Toilet Finger
 
 
Mallet ringer, washroom ginger, plumbers
unlock lovers from their lockets. Oops!
Rubberneckers rave at accident people:
 
that’s a Mess of People Accident. Oops!
Upfront vehicle domino clack: honk & connect
from afar: pull forward. Speed the Trance?
 
Speed the Speed. & if she’s the one behind,
cabrón, we’re the one who held her
there. Momentum shoots wherever, cousin.
 
          Percussion claims the gaseous wave
          acoustic others push dead air
          sounds <Select All>
          mitigate this
 
          Toilet Finger wants
          that its probe smokes out
          which vehicle transfers
          redolence out
          which digit relays
          signal to commons
          from a list or the Listless
          or those craving Listedness
          (plumbed in the commons
          disconnected from grid
          when it comes into that
          or turns into that
          & to that)
 
          Insurgente wants
          that hir grace notes be labeled 
          into “Problem” “Answer” “Landscape”
          so as not to not qualify
          not to not parse
          & neither warp credentials
          nor embellish their skidmarks 
          nor lengthen them down to 
          the not-funny porcelain channel
 
          O Mongers! please forgive us
          for we know not what we void
          if no outflow no input
          to its safe-house we halve
          & “think to take you with us?”
          & “thank us for our service?”
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