Marti Stephen

you

body do

you know how

 

to go about

dying

 

my death

 

unstruck

outside

 

you bell

my self

 

 

 

as american

 

soft an

animal

 

at core

this machine
 

i disappoint

me i mourn

 

the specifics.

democracy

 

it says

i am fast

 

in this car

 

 

 

journey

 

 

rich corpse Eurydice street

musicians fatal with coins where

 

world feral we wandered

one-way

 

her soiled repose straying

listen/dogs

 

getting into garbage

 

 

 

lamentations of the everyday

 

the act of wearing

puts out the eyes

of living

 

if I put on the

suit of a businessman do

not let me

 

think as a businessman

likewise the dress

 

* * *

 

the act of driving

cannot be tame without

a dinosaur (smell

 

of diesel harbinger

of Europe)

something erotic

 

is the glove compartment

machines have grace

only in forward. we like

 

permission to sit alone

for traffic. the land

cannot help

 

the interrupt of highway

for sure these are dragons

but burning

 

 

 

 unspoken

 

the song compressed to

a small walking light

 

a delicate spiked fuss

shaved to an egg

 

no, a steak

then swallowed ground

 

round syntax not beef

but buffaloed indigestible

 

as an alphabet, no

bird bones

 

broken gouging

sentences

 

the stomach a mar-

quee black on white

 

chicken

scratchings

 

 
 

A David Trinidad Publication for MiPOesias Magazine 2007