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Harry K. Stammer

 


Pigeon today?                        

 

 

"jammed up" leaving

 

     reached high voice

 

raised sitting two

 

     teeth "some of

 

these gloves will

 

     fit" voices higher

 

smoke (ing) "did

 

     you feed the

 

pigeons today?" sitting

 

     radio on 570

 

too "care for,

 

     not care for

 

it" late dropped

 

     close gate "which

 

is not a

 

     reason or," four

 

cotton jackets tight

 

     "that leaves the

 

past in change"

 

     (ly) weather hiding

it


 

 

piss(ing) now?                                  

 

 

piss years rusted stairwell

 

     level(s) "the other way

 

it works" hood up

 

     over "hoods up over't"

 

head rain wind protein

 

     hand mouth carbs mouth

 

fat mouth over up

 

     hooded jacket "little salt,

 

little pepper" shaken hand/mouth

 

     now pissing corner metal

 

"dripping to the next

 

     level" p2/p1 hood(n)down hand

 

it back zipped up

 

     "clank, clank, clank, clank"

 

the shorter trip (syllables)

 

     wadded up and tossed

 

in the can "you take

 

     it"


 

 

BIG words                                

 

 

     the longer way

 

around the building

 

     (is to) pulled

 

out laid on

 

     the sidewalk taken

 

"keep the words

 

     smaller" they don't

 

let you through

 

     the doors un

 

wadded un tussed

 

     reads break words


 

 

is this the place to shit?                               

 

 

walking round "looking to shit" unfastened

 

     belt frequent (ly) under going

 

absent continuous 'moil 'gregate inside

 

     "once the synapse breaks, paralysis"

 

setting unrestricted thick soles exact

 

     diameter of "its" it's frequency

 

out in lines "one stair

 

     at a time stable sovereign

 

stout as estimates "blogged't" counting

 

     pictured over 365 yardstick included


 

 

lumpy model                                        

 

 

singing "throw them down the stairs,

 

     the stairs throw them" down two

 

wires up/back reaction (s) defined

 

     information longs modeled "I hope

 

you let it go by" please find a

 

     place to shit "throwin 'em down

 

the stairs, throwin 'em" lumpy examples

 

     going by that insist it "lumpy"

 

event (circumstance) "I just wanted

 

     to know the reason" just the reason

 

Poems on this page © Harry K. Stammer 2005-2006

 


harry k stammer lives and works in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara. His poetry has been published in sidereality, dreamvirus, xStreme, Znine, blazeVOX, Moria, poetic inhalation, xPress(ed).
 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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