Addictions (6 lines)


A Golden Stater born and bred, I never eat
a meal
that lacks a salad-without greens, it's not complete.

My gal's from Texas, and her tastes and mine don't mix,
for I'm
a slave to chlorophyll; capsaicin is her fix.


The Gym Teacher's Sudden Bust Reduction (15 lines)


She hadn't any choice-
the biopsy had made that clear-
and yet she wasn't sorry that she had it done.

She'd sweated off each needless ounce of fat,
and cut her hair and nails,
and now she felt the process was complete.

Her goal had always been:
eliminate whatever isn't muscle kept in perfect tone.

They'd tipped her balance on the tumbling mat,
and flopped around when she was on her daily jog,
and bunched against her swinging arms,
and throbbed with every impact of her chest on the uneven bars.

The way she figured it,
she'd gone one better than those Amazons
who lopped off only one to ply their bows.


The Choice (350 words)


It's not irrelevant, believe me.

If you're a writer, the choice you make may tell you something you'd never know had the issue not been framed this way.

CHOOSE THIS:

You live every writer's fantasy.

Your books make the biggest hillock in the barnyard, and hardly anyone hears the other cocks for your crowing.

You win every prize, including one or two expressly invented to further populate your groaning trophy shelf.

Third World villagers who know no English know your name.

Each morning, a coin toss decides whether you wallow in royalty-generated Kubla Khan pleasures or write a few pages toward financing more.

Every writer's fantasy…while you live.

Before your skin gets pricked by the embalmer's needle, people start to wonder why they ever liked your books.

Ten years later, the billions of copies you once sold are, respectively, in landfills or in the afterlife for deleted e-books.

While your literary contemporaries are having their centennials celebrated, your name is a cipher to your own great-grandchildren.

OR THIS:

You live the tragicomedy of a person who fails at the one thing he cares about-in this case, being a writer.

No play or film script of yours is produced, no book released from any of the dozen publishers who hog The New York Review of Books.

On your deathbed, you wish you hadn't bothered.

Then a few mourners talk about your work, and influential friends of theirs seek the few volumes they can find.

And a cult becomes an industry becomes a mass movement.

Your stories and characters end up as common references, and you contribute more familiar phrases to the language than Shakespeare and King James combined.

In the distant future, successor intelligences, organic or cybernetic, think fondly back on your work after having neglected the other artifacts of Homo Sapiens.

THIS IS THE CHOICE.

The greatest possible appreciation, all now or all posthumously.

What if your career must follow one and only one of these paths?

Don't say it's not realistic.

Don't say it's not fair to ask.

CHOOSE.


Marshall M (6 lines)


Dear Marshall M has passed away,
His musings in abeyance;
His relatives and friends receive a presage.

To hear the last he had to say,
They soon arrange a séance;
As one might guess, the medium is the message.

Robert Laughlin

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  Floaters


Fighter


Rock gut friend with unretracted elbows goin which way- every. She better not. Stay small in corner, might not notice. Keep curls dry might get slammed unbenounced to her. Other spew too, but not as good. She lose. Sugar and spice.

Painter

Everyday. Paint. Don’t look. See somethin’ not there say nothin’. Stay away go leave, he scream. No wall hanging there, only him. Pea green wall naked behind, in front room, don’t look there either. She’ll miss him and her in the tomato plant. Can’t go back and do it right.

Horse, chair dogbone, anyway but that. They said paint the line like this, she walked out. Line up for grab, no way. My way. Words paint dance stay between the line. They say. Bones is bones not death or sex. She said.

Hill-dweller

Hold steadfast girl. Make ends meet your furry four leg beasts lay in wait. Your bed. Your house. Your roof. Your head – over it. Keep tryin’.

Collector

Newspaper stacked to the roof she said it give her a secure feel. Lamp, dress, box, chairs piled high. Lots of secure there. Can’t find clothes or cat.

Dancers

Spends her time sitting in bush in tulle on stage, that is. She usually say it’s no never mind. She’ll stay there until the next chord or wink or nod. Resent later. Hard enough to find her center in mirror in class let alone on stage in tulle. She’ll stay in bush with skirt gathered over knobbly knees in hole sore as hell. Until she does. Too.

They ask if anything is wrong with her face is sad and crinkled. She say no, she’ll rearrange it by the time he come home.

Pack up meaningful and go.



Neila Mezynski Fighter Rock gut friend with unretractTrack listing All songs written by Willie Nelson, except where noted. "Ou Es-Tu, Mon Amour? (Where Are You, My Love?)" (Emile Stehn/Henri LeMarchand) – 2:43 "I Never Cared for You" – 2:18 "Everywhere I Go" – 3:50 "Darkness on the

Face>
of the Earth" – 2:33 "My Own Peculiar Way" – 3:37 "These Lonely Nights" (Chester Odom) – 3:29

"Home Motel" – 3:15 "The Maker" (Daniel Lano


is) – 5:08
ed elbows goin which way- every. She better not. Stay small in corner, might not notice. Keep curls dry might get slammed unbenounced to her. Other spew too, but not as good. She lose. Sugar and spice. Painter Everyday. Paint. Don’t look. See somethin’ not there say nothin’. Stay away go leave, he scream. No wall hanging there, only him. Pea green wall naked behind, in front room, don’t look there either. She’ll miss him and her in the tomato plant. Can’t go back and do it right. Horse, chair dogbone, anyway but that. They said Grang Guinol Tasmania Hits the Right Note paint the line like this, she walked out. Line up for grab, no way. My way. Words paint dance stay between the line. They say. Bones is bones not death or sex. She said. Hill-dweller Hold steadfast girl. Make ends meet your furry four leg beasts lay in wait. Your bed. Your house. Your roof. Your head – over it. Keep tryin’. Collector Newspaper stacked to the roof she said it give her a secure feel. Lamp, dress, box, chairs piled high. Lots of secure there. Can’t find clothes or cat. Dancers Spends her time sitting in bush in tulle on stage, that is. She usually say it’s no never mind. She’ll stay there until the next chord or wink or nod. Resent later. Hard enough to find her center in mirror in class let alone on stage in tulle. She’ll stay in bush with skirt gathered over knobbly knees in hole sore as hell. Until she does. Too. They ask if anything is wrong with her face is sad and crinkled. She say no, she’ll rearrange it by the time he come home. Pack up meaningful and go. Neila Mezynski GRINDLEY


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modern verses for tears

after a certain interruption
people have symptoms

of analgesics
of a search for money
of a desire to be not for profit

how to be able to take what is needed
when being for profit and not turning one?

good small black dogs are not cheap to set
down on a front lawn clean as a red bicycle

all the good home movies are just of children doing
nothing with the fresh snow melting on their jackets

in the future everyone might drive cars as
sensitive to fate as makeshift wooden sleds

that is the problem with wanting control is
the skill of letting go is considered obsolete

what is to be done

when everything breaks down?
when the music crackles apart?
when the hand drops the ball?

remember not to hold on for life while it is still dear
or all of us will circle time in the same old clunkers forever

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super power

in an effort to stay alive our hero
recycled all of his inner resources
to rekindle that uncanny ability of
never giving up on giving up what he
loved, which was the agony of each ray
gun boring a new warp in his spine,
the hair of a gorgeous woman floating
on a pool of blood under her cold skull,
and his belief that no one in metropolis
cared to estimate the heart of its loser

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the plaque on bob's memorial

in the middle of the mourn...

he'll be here stiffening
flat against this flower lousy
earth as the chisel plows black
all the goddamn soup crying night

here lies bob taylor
his cock was a wailer,
a blind teiresias blurting
out heavenly soothsayings
that made terrible swells in a head
soaring above such old, wrinkled dugs

a black girl once said he should do porn
that his parts were beautiful business people
calling in connections to rise up in the world,
sharing their private jets with anyone willing
to open their eyes to such slick propositions

others simply could not pull themselves together
without the thought of bob stirring up great sorrow
with that butter churning eye of his twitching above a
mouth whispering to say the flames licked the wall is
not a personification of the paint peeling inside of us

bob loved to laugh
the punchline of that
aborted fetus joke made
even the most bereaved
wail even harder, making
his work that much easier...
where he got off gracing our
faces with such brilliance, we
may never know for certain

if possible, bob would have wailed at his own funeral
the warm, tumbling blues, dangling coruscant on the edge
of his cheek as that timber made thing slithered into the seventh rib of the earth, would've been worth every zero

since bob is not here, & neither are we, rest here a moment
take in this memorial of a t-rex sodomizing a sick triceratops
after all, everyone tries to atone for the tiny shriveled things
near their hearts that always seem to come in twos. bob did.

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