the woman next to me ordering more guac
mom home maybe thinking i’m okay
rae’s in a silent vase
toot ard means strawberry
apart from insufferably enduring, i don’t know
what to do with corpses but transfer words, like bodies

if writing were as easy as grouping the alphabet
if day did not begin with a live feed
the exposition of ego sounds like, a magic flute
western intellectualism funneling resistance into a binary

into vengeful pathologies
for ease, one pathway is massacre
the other, horrified
is poetic language, some friends who are heading in a strange direction

i’m writing under the ecstasy of pain
ceramics, a subterranean pipeline, wringing in the ears, wireless energy
e-sims, speech bubbles, ellipses
the crack down on the memoir-industrial complex
what’s important is maintaining a little order in the mess
but and that’s the primacy of organizing
your own conservatism dealt with

the body with little clarity
everyone meeting at the park at 3pm
another editor saying the collection also delves into the realm of object reproduction and object
desire, all within a hyper capitalist habitat
that is teaming with text and language, as much internal as
it is imprinted on the surface
of the city

this is what got us
majd writing thank you for remembering me
habibi chris

slow, easygoing muzak from the inferno elevator
to combat teaching essay writing as argumentative
the proxy of school, baptism
since when did all those little machines start showing up in the city
asking to tap?
in bayridge, the businesses shut down in solidarity
the women and children are emptying onto the streets
some people learn arabic, others speak in spanish and reference the philippines

helicopters swwooop in
i know lily would not approve but, is she?
the saliva of fugitivity is the function
not retreating to first aid, given there is no access

there’s a tendency for people to distrust friends in crisis
in my notebook june’s works list for her series, all the ways i hold my baby
09-12-2023 1:35pm items checked out to p13527
title: cumbia!: scenes of a migrant life
barcode: 34444829141852
due date: 10-03-23
maria’s ruine münchen companions public program from june-october this year
2023
sydney’s score for her lullaby about being an au pair

i guess the people that came in and out are excited about black friday
an upgraded iranian hypersonic missile
apaches carrying thermobaric bombs
with meat grinder functionality among 100m of impact

the news is sound
try to write the second you show up at my door
kyrie irving knows what makes up crime
the devil lies so much we’ll stitch together his meaning

is it a bell, a croissant?
what about the doctor championing analysis?
the students hung up on the representation of the dead
body in isabella hamad’s short story
mr. can’aan

looking at words together, spazzing, drunk from serum with sodium bicarbonate
fighting the guy whose radical thoughts are in his head
a hurricane in acapulco, cockroaches in droves
also people talking about congo with spite
fanon’s famous passage about violence being cleansing
said’s secret refutation on the bbc although what he said was the word ‘purificatory’

i think you heard reactionaries talking
really smug, in the theater of overidentification, as a ritual
the cooks in the back call me boss
nearby, hardee’s got general tso’s and shrimp boil

line up fingers, mostly
drill authenticity as practice
fine style for paparazzi in bulletproof vests
maybe boots (poulaines), snakeskins, a third eye, gumballs, carlos v, placards, terracotta pots for
cactus

the world won’t subsist on bread alone
grandma’s innervated
whatever is the equivalent to soul outside the house, i want
all those pretty words about the sun but you can’t wake up