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nude relaxers
wax relaxers
noise relaxers
the noisy nudes
the stumbling nudes
honestly sleep
the divot club
the private divot club
the pivot club
the privet club
the noisy relaxers

private octave

singers of the private octave

the prison octave
a semblance of nudes
honestly nudes
darkness is a thing called love

orpheus fats
a thing called nudes
analemma old man
the total rip, the conversion
the nude relayers

frozen tsunamis
enormous tsunamis
flash froze; we call them glaciers

exhume blackbox
we broke the grave;
there was a black box there
it tracked the soul's movements into the next world
plotting the data was a challenge
it was hoped that by charting the movements of the soul, a rough shape of the afterlife could be obtained
the signal is lost at reincarnation
it's not calibrated for the physical world
anyway, no one could make heads or tails
there were not the mathematics
theoretically there were: mathematics describes many imaginary dimensions.

Mathematics is independent of dimension. Shouldn't one be able to use mathematics to describe the afterlife? Is the lack of mathematical description of the afterlife proof there is none?

Perhaps some of the higher-energy equations are actually, without we knowed it, describing the afterlife? Einstein was sketching the seven levels or the eleven axes or the 26-dimensional brane of the afterlife...he just didn't realize.

String theory is promising because it describes strings, which are just human beings extruded, play-doh fashion, into four dimensions. Like one of those play-doh pumpers, or like a meat grinder, whichever makes you feel less uncomfortable.

sausage slave
extruder intruder
pushed into life
this is the shape soul takes

this ax called love
bianca wondersky
noisy relaxers
sinners of a private blackbox
ax for the fierce tsunamis
frozen in the afterlife
a tsunami of ghosts, released
from the private octave of existence

tingle catastrophe. eminent nomain. eminent noman, handling polyphemus. polymphemus catastrophe, a real one eyed catastrophe. eminent mathematicians.

polymorphemes. polymorphous meatheamtciations. meatmagicians. meatmaticians. mathmeat mortified. math meat mortifications.

meta fortificiations. meat fortifications. meat forts.

meat fort
math major
pink catastrophe
eminent swimmain

eminence swim
dox johnson
mance johnson
mathmeat politician
johnson jones
jones johnson
johnson johnson
johnson swim
swim, mathematics!

slow pain wednesday
slow pain mathematics
slow pain numismatics

angelica rains
panties numismatics
panties are now legal tender
the stained ones are higher denominations

pregnant sadists
pregnant sadistic
nickel nipples
megafortifications

meganipples
and a polymorphic mouth
a mouth in higher denominations
in a polymorphic defense

rhode island vice
Olga and her polymorphic mouth
angela numismatics
penetrates the human clock

the penitent clock of the Cathartists
the penitence clock of the Catholics

of all the things in life
the filthiest are the most precious
the most precious are the most pernicious

the first dunce orphan competition
the pernicious dunce of outerspace
the pernicious dunces of avonlea
the douche of outer space
the dunce of space comes quickly
the dunce of dulce space, Tom Hulce
Amadeus comes quickly
whatever you do you can't stop Saliere

the first pernicious dunces of afterspace
to accuse you heavenly spies

espionage
espionage and numismatics
you stand accused of espionage for space
how do you achieve?
all the little spacely spies
with their telescopes commencing
whirring around the heavens
all the secret knowledge of the astronometers
represents a blister to the church

a secret blister to the church
you stand accused of sweaty espionage
how do you plead, blister?

finch frenchley
spies communicating around the heavens
leave off litigation
knowledge of a solar church

stand accused of human numismatics
humans as coins to be bartered
humans as coins to be barded
in summary of the mind

In a Chinese politician
radio Kryptonite
the top hits on Radio Kryptonite
in the shadowshacks
on the edge of the mountain
the tinroof shacks
clutched above the moon
climbing shaggy hillsides
in the glow of the neon moonbelow

a moon of camphor
smells like cold eucalyptus
smells like cold vicks
a moon in vaporizer

women on a camphor moon
women on camphor north
amphorae of camphor

the bottle numbers

a family of in-betweens
all the little in-betweens

Eldest Mary, and Littlest Joe
and all the little in-betweens
Billy Joe in-between

jazz recursive
compiling bras
compiling brassieres
pleasing brassieres
jimmy junket
all the little electric heads
recompiling jazz
electric jazz bastards

every star in the himalaya
all the angels washed away
the day falls soft on the pithy shore
little electric hands
like Heaven in the mezzanine

B. Kliban was a big formative influence on my work.

garden knockouts. knockouts in the garden. Roberts has fallen in a garden of words.

sanger language. hang language. grange language, in the garden, on the range.

broke up with moustache
broke up with knockouts

try falling in a goddamn garden
see where that'll getcha

his poem "The Circus" anticipated New York

some moon food

moon foof. spread moon food all over the sky.

the clouds floated in morsels in the sky, like moon food. the cloud floated minstrels in the sky

skin the web. skim the web. the clouds floated in morses in the glass, like a code in the sky. like roberts in the glass, skim the broken web,

the morse code blips spun into the web, roberts changed in to a spider, trying to signal us, again and again. eventually roberts had babies who swarmed out of their egg cases and ate him. so that was the end of that problem.

roberts then became a fly, and pestered us until he met the rolled up Post Gazette Telegram. then he became nits which infested our hair, and ticks which latched onto our shins -- all cracked between our fingernails.

then he became an intestinal worm and tried to get our attention from the inside. but even the ingenious pain-in-morse-code failed to work, and we took caustic solutions and shat him out.

sky falling into the goddamn sky. like the sun falls into the garden of eden, transmogrifying into Eve (hence "eve-ning").

viveca pistol
viveca pistola

shinning emerge. shinnying emerge. let the shining emerge!
the shining emergence, the glistening emergence.

carbuncular economics
platypus playlist
let the glistening commence!

Roberts swum squirming from a platypus womb
he's got a duckbill, but otherwise he's just fine!
way to go, Roberts!

telegenic footage
telegenic luggage
telgenic celebrities -- they are spawned, conceived, on the tv screen
conceived on tv
conceived by the airwaves
they materialize whole on N. Las Palmas
and wander around searching for opportunity
some are killed, some are raped, some are eaten
others make it successfully to the studios

it's like the gauntlet of just-hatched baby turtles
the run to reach the safety of the surf
the tv receivers generate celebrities who then must gather their wits and struggle (or cab) to the safety of the nearest television studio.

androids on the airwaves
it's television season
like the grunion, celebrities
surge ashore to spawn in great numbers
slippery in the moonlight they spawn
whores, junkies and creeps
pimps, pushers and freaks
wade in and gorge by the light of the moon
but there are always survivors to carry on the line
to deliver tomorrow's sitcom catchphrases
what was THAT all about?
wait -- let me explain!
you got THAT right!
[laughter, applause]

indians of vivid rape
indians of enthusiastic rape
delicious holiday
indians of euthanasia
ambergris starlight
distant euthanasia
distant fix
loaded and moonglow

invaders of vivid race
indians of vapid rape
indians of tepid rape

Anastasia Zero
look back
smile and smoke
silence in the styptic night

match.corn
shed the fantasy

glorious calendar
the spellery
the fainting couch
the smelling saults
celery september
vicar of texas
vicar fresh of texas

saucepedo
the namaste meters
sergeant socrates
lincoln leighton
lincoln lincoln

distant moonfix
smelling faults

the blundering abbot
john hotsource
the namaste masters

rising in enormous forms
the enormous formulae
one enormous formula

ghosts of tommyspace
euthanasia fixture

Butterfly Bunyan
rusty jacket
namaste socrates
sonic tankers

enormous hotsource
in the earth
making hawaiis all day long

Adam was a Republican
and Eve a Democrat.

If not for her progressive ways,
we'd be a small herd in Eden.

Managed, for our delicious flesh,
by a bored, disappointed God.

"How do you solve a problem like Maria?"

Let us first address the subsidiary questions, then see if we can arrive at a conclusion concerning the main question.

1. How do you catch a cloud and pin it down?

Since a cloud is not a solid thing and thus cannot be "pinned", one can speak only in terms of catching a cloud and containing it, which is the sense of the question in any event.

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