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Put Your Hands In

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by Chris Hosea

The statue plastic stitched

  To a steel pedestal with fire

  Like flutes echoing lightning skies

  A rat’s ass and more this sudden person

  Somebody who is somebody to nod

  Where you belong

  Flowers of fire

  Potted Italian men solo loving

  There is a way kinder position

  Come late time plain flat

  Moving with crew

  Out on artificial lake

  It’s so sad to be alone

  Slide a packet of nylons

  Down the floor

  Your floor

  WORDS BY KARL MARX, TUXEDO BY RIOT

  Inevitable as in England ancient Roman law

  Opposite of the social

  Complete and conscious return of man

  With his good money after the overthrow

  Of the whole conception of history

  In practice lost all credit

  An element of positive, profane

  Painful imaginings

  Guilty of this or that maximum loss

  Transmitted from the past

  Like a nightmare on the brain

  Batters down all Chinese walls

  According to age and sex

  You are horrified

  At our intending

  Let us now take

  Women screams

  Most radical flare up

  Of bourgeois claptrap

  Sketch of the course

  A precise study of strikes

  Movement in abstract form

  Is the genuine war on the situation

  The artless ways of the child

  Standard and model beyond

  Silly lives of Catholic saints

  All the other brave words

  Behind which lurk

  Efforts of mechanical genius

  Glory brings

  Organized like soldiers

  A reasoned ardor

  With the bad side

  To be judged

  Is it surprising in the final

  Linen or silk

  Men as flax

  Closely bound up in sheaves

  The hand mill gives you

  All such phrases

  Setting in motion arms and legs

  THE BARN PARTY

  No one came under

  leaves drenching plastic

  cups lit up over-

  passes pissing thrills

  a ragged border, call it Texan lace God

  bless this memory hole

  hot set top warm soaps

  animals out race streets closed off

  locked with shops

  so they can paste new tip cup jokes

  the first last days.

  Prepare soups in the reference

  section, painkiller

  sting the singer, signs the Scorpion

  traced on Hayden’s smashed

  lens flyers dream they mulched those

  fields in turn turn turn your mop to

  rented speakers, lights too

  I believe you, saying I am going to

  welcome shades of structures, plaints

  pleats, ripped faces, subway walls, the will

  got me here, so I made lists

  and lost in the fall all invited

  sought other reunions

  studying to be yoga instructs

  best coffee in town, Om, it must be

  payday

  GONNA DIG UP OZU

  To place a grown woman

  use tough gloves

  in rock gardens

  out front dust shows

  depends on how you turn about home

  whirl around sunset

  slides of shoestring tours

  U-turns, artifacts

  stop talking for one second

  time today

  In the house

  we eat chimes cut

  flowers clouds of broccoli

  on oilcloth

  A blue light switched on

  deep in me pits

  Painting a peacock badly perched

  on drooping vines

  on yarrow weeds

  on a placemat

  Making little sense edible altogether

  microphones we carry sponge

  words like pages

  or croutons, familiar, offline, dedicated

  Epiphany telling this

  I am not able to say I have quieted days faster

  Getting on my last being’s coil

  recall where we were just

  at start

  A bit of rain in online trees

  even stones take it in

  these features in today’s camera work

  BARS AND LOUNGES ON YELP

  Blood and tears marked as wet

  ripped days, trash goods

  sift use

  For what colors blue colors orange colors green the field

  (outdoors in)

  rusting tracks melt stops in snapshot

  polite smile for the time

  few these days printed sneaking under a shelf

  into the ward at nights that rain

  the chase itself

  of course along viaducts and suburban tracts

  would have been

  workers such as shrug the game never was

  owning up to that patented trance

  join an inflated parade baby effigy

  tethered to a much-shot street

  comfortable couches in there

  ambient music

  ends up on the share drive

  the administrator named Boulevard

  HARD DRIVE SCRUB

  Now you’re in

  there is nothing you can’t see can’t you the

  electric lights: bobbins

  an energy, quantity, number this

  eidolon or abstract thing violence at eight

  point five million seconds per

  organic bananas ninety-nine cents

  a pound or several make babies

  of us all of us

  again data’s voice so girlishly enacts

  Archie Bunker accents

  what’s hidden in fat slacks power dons

  then it is finally indescribable

  open it mouth it bites it

  humid climates and tins in bins

  subtropical fairly spread

  in air, part of the greater

  circling and plunging, hover however

  furling huge blooms fairy of death

  I scarce know what

  it is sharp and free

  its present whiteness

  it is charming notes

  anonymous Swedish admirer

  the joke is on

  confess group facts fail

  to say rejoicing Ssips

  drinks ninety-nine cents

  jump our bumps together baby

  dumb friendship is best

  ACROSS THE BOSS’S DESK

  1.

  rub your glass

  periscope dancer

  that’s there isn’t

  see here

  there her

  say it rains musty crush

  gold box flakes

  say “sir” end under

  leaves wet roofs a pension

  locked-in tuna pen-

  chant hello we getting tight

  I do not know you spooky person

  just another real word

  ust ice for numb

  rest perfect man

  nurse woes

  drop fans

  down down well back a way we go

  plinks on robot knee

  who says I don’t have feelings

  I have plenty

  me me

  babble about

  waterfalls

  swim in

  waterfalls

  you are, like, a hurricane

  one beard brags is

  another straight cut

  our ruler torn

  marking the limit
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  so seriously a few inch

  messes of lines

  no need to write a notice though

  is it not beautiful when children do it

  2.

  set froze features to heat

  stars moving means they are satellites of somewhere

  adjusting the dust

  plug artificial firings

  laptops in other zooms

  credits relax you are expecting

  sequences of circles

  cant now reaches permanent bits

  brightening sides of buses

  pressing pleasing colors

  the glimpse we hear gather

  massy smudges

  sum it up for you

  lots of nights lost

  there is not a reason:

  not one single reason

  this time being called forth

  to be entitled and allowed

  to travel the globe

  never to pin

  just one little thought in any one head

  jotting down costs

  names hotels towns

  brands of milk

  later what comes tumbling down

  over lips in after years

  3.

  cut like a wedge into the cotillion punch, sour

  swollen chin add freckles to that

  examination in a glass the light alters

  whole days could strand new saints

  some joke about Poles

  some girls in Poland

  bright tape rewinding past magnetic Marguerites

  making yourself up in an antiqued mirror

  today another Stones show

  plots dug in the street again dug in as in dug

  a little more past where we two live

  once more sad summer is said is said

  to be a meaningful shade

  to coat bricks

  in blood printer’s devil

  pirate’s booty dry mouth

  Rough Guide to Las Vegas 2009

  not your fault that

  each sits in her way

  painted fully

  frame one in plastic bric-a-brac which way to be flexible

  artists jamming

  fish-infested seas

  going to seed

  in working bands

  great-hearted men who meet the drink

  4.

  one popular adjective ushering

  off a tenor

  I’ve got something

  speech speech

  dial-a-movie

  ringing again

  and after climax of

  whanging harem hammers

  hammering on

  the neighbor’s baby grand

  a mad cry of freedom

  5.

  where the cobbler stops we raise our cups

  rough grain gets on allover

  lumber about crazed

  foam bells starting to break

  a startling question

  remember about lemmings

  the new girl’s smock poses

  her sorrowful eyes

  we each can’t fit in a period

  silently barkeep

  kick us out into tonight

  still spaces to litter with crushed shells

  homeless persons or if you prefer hermits

  T. S. Eliot might watercolor

  Sundays all his life though in peanut colors

  his greatest maxim:

  keep it to yourself

  6.

  spar for prose

  seeing us trellised

  in thorny stereo no

  roses guns

  shh this is uplifting objects

  you can move things

  just by thinking hello stuff stuff

  today I will share

  happy to be here happy to be there

  someone read the minutes

  all answer it’s hard

  these choice choices scrambled

  emoticon victim you

  me too, dizzy:

  not to show it

  spinning more, keep on turning

  ditto machine purple

  ditto ditto ditto ditto

  ditto ditto ditto ditto

  7.

  it took authority to write it down

  a committee to make it into a pile

  and maintenance to screw the plaque to the wall

  the exam samples are you afraid

  when building sets for Polanski

  open the guide for in-flight TV

  so your thumb lies on Ben Hur

  8.

  linens and things

  things and linens

  where does it end

  the most beautiful birdsong I’ve heard

  continues when lightbulbs come on

  I read your blog

  this morning you call our role

  a spaghetti western dish

  wiping ointments discreetly in train cars

  can you just pick this up and turn it on

  learning separated by equals signs

  wanting a new engine

  black letter the word caboose

  9.

  he here who is poorer than Richard

  down to the wire marathon

  keep us breathing

  windows

  to tell less what we see through than why

  this act of shredding pretending to be

  illustrated step by step

  figure one: jambs and knobs

  now there gates there gates now

  whisper the air melody air the whisper

  couldn’t you couldn’t

  you try to explain to try you

  drink it all up

  fall down in the muck

  look at the leafy there

  ascertain its color and walk away

  classified men

  tell you this our

  nothing else rodeo

  10.

  getting references starts to get even

  mister manners so at home

  think importunate look-up

  glimpse calm in the iris

  just ice can you lick it

  better digest the room twice wanting

  a do-over liking your air

  terrible with money flinch

  could it you be friend to the end friend me one credit

  please thank you come again oh please

  11.

  more prosy Saturdays flipping off the calendar

  winging away into the wind

  characters get older

  font dry as the steward’s eye

  pure corn trashed

  pure corn fuel scheme

  pure corn oiled guns

  pure corn hatred nut

  pure corn sunset tongue

  pure corn pet spider

  pure corn bland wash

  pure corn tattoo shop

  pure corn inspected ham

  pure corn sashimi

  pure corn convention event

  pure corn tortilla

  12.

  listen to tumblers here now

  feel the safeness get up close

  lift grain-colored highballs face

  trouble puddles well in corneas’ guts

  oh disapproval palms

  hearts can’t eat out on this date

  could this place serve what we need

  if we knew what we needed

  this review was funny three helpful two

  obnoxious one, pass the gavel

  put a hotel on the boardwalk

  and a cap on the baloney bellboy

  13.

  once on this train why would I get off

  really not knowing anything

  breathing through a tube

  fierce ruth after seven-elevens go dark

  danger boys retire all smokes

  when to my confessions booths slam shut no

  matter too rough till morning test stop

  the emergency reggae broadcast system stop


  sleeping strange couches smell of man

  how I remember grad school

  would you call your mother a mutt

  your country yeah just once in a long while

  a cocky bastard voice in the skull

  make me a man signing words not indifferent

  clasp hands you couldn’t make us

  singing when the shower stops

  PURPLE SNOW PURPLE SNOW

  Come on now, talk

  When they pull out on the breeze

  There’s no survivors

  it’s the simple stuff I need

  how sweet romance is glum

  The sad talk laws are broken on a hilltop

  I’ll take my chances with impunity impunity

  Got you up And I could really give a fuck

  Can’t you stuff me?

  So bad, so bad, so so bad so so bad

  I remember lying, I don’t remember a line

  This is the city life—Hey lady, what do you need?

  you’re the kind of girl I never wanna make

  Keep you in sight, Three of us is enough

  Every night Dreaming, dream, dream it got stuck

  But I won’t pay the rent My little trick

  Advocating a bottle of white I like you

  say goodnight screwin’ your graceful tongue

  Stuff me that word I love your tinted eyes

  I’ve got to melt it show me Take it neighbor

  if my walkman fades keep my anthem

  because the sun will melt the pigs, the fuzz, the cops, the heat

  Because there’s forty different shades of black

  they don’t need you anymore, little girl, boy, girl, boy

  Because you feel that you’re social

  Don’t even snow Don’t even snow

  Ya, Ya, Ya, Ya, Ya

  quarantine the past ’Cause we need secrets

  Because I’m rushing to feel this amusing era

  you’re empty and what did you expect?

  I’d like to invite you to a taste of my chalice

  this crime it is never complete

  slow, sick, sucking scene full of punks

  Can’t you see the stuff I need?

  If I could Then I would If I could

  settle down settle down settle down

  I need to snort up their drugs sleep it off

  come and bleed with me Well, I got absolutely no one

  no hands Nothing more than me

  check out your public protests

  Call and response, negative hope

  remind you remind you

  you got to take it Silent Can’t you see?

 

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