by Bruce Andrews
Confession — aliens
though gung-ho
win the cycle & scram the sensate
model opium, post-sexy
carbon synch
unbuttondown
the medium-size blaspheming
end-of-the-world buffet
postvariety — grease the wheels, scatter pacificism
with one hand tied behind our back
active shooter drill
foster-child / foster-meaning
otherweirdly cultural underaccumulationism
recon — textual PTSD
peace of mind, copy that, sir
flashbacks — textual I.U.D.s
who doesn’t like a bribe
plausible time frame gets enough money for complete sentences
dead air grabs your stuff
improve on the ridiculous
whatever
put a pin in…signatories to the swarm
flexi-mouth as non-invasively as possible
stripped of old meaning to get more cards to play
sensus communis — good to none
interrogative twerking de facto unreality
pigs with bibles, meat in time/space
start the clot maneuver
the post-anxious unless unless raptor
the normal just gets better
the future is doing you a favor
umessed up AARP on the sly
autonomy votes, qualified to
aping the shifters, the nighttimes, glad to glitter
gala — word forgets itself
T-Bone as a verb — under-and-over psychologiz
vulnerable linguistic amazonian rain forest
gawk at that tiny pencil
quandary hurt, waves crest on the undone
overcaffeinated, or bored?
carnivore slings & errors beef up forget
postpostwar words — apart versus edge
“skittish prophecy”
fake it til you make it
what gets comeuppance is what you leave behind
a dose of pistoning — does my ex-husband count?
squirrelly, reproduction stops calling
cover for me
vexing from scratch, crowdedly connected
future gets really close
self-preceding not drowning in someone else’s referents
‘friend’ doesn’t compute — timing the IF, THEN
skills get creamier
babyback emotion spliced back in desperate dictionary
yes yes / yes yes yes — “Meaning is a dog.”
swell disjunctive donation
over&under any very — No, we’re Palestinian
specialty audience, microbe alert
no time to fight — unrefrigerate the materials
the half thoughts ’ll have time to puppy up
intensity of afterthought is not treason
any science can predict the past
candidates drink — plug in pig clatter
hell, we’re drinking bee pollen
single-pouted — drown your exception, absolute as exchange rate
“mi palabra su palabra” — I thought it was real
indulged omnitonguing re-entry
ideal readers, fall on your sword
reverse the inside-out postsensory
better-than-fleshtoned — the best / left behind
outside shining the sugar frequencies anxietize that donation
honk if
prosthetics without the disability confused crime
emancipation not as but from grandstanding
“blurb on!” — slurp on, aleatory
crash-tested anti-aging unsameness
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