retail therapy (2 for 1)

at the mall banners advertise monthly sales in politically relevant colors, such as red top & yellow bottoms ^ blue backgrounds & white text--bold but still hard to read it's like Superman in the shape & form of a celebrity flapping gently in the wind

we don't need no yellow no red if shoppers can save the nation - prayer.t

in keeping in... -nr

declaring in softened, terse words; in the lot of mistakes: hallways: where so many words may mistakenly pass, &folks within papered walls become the interior voices of crumbled dwellings, accepting blame. the use, of use / of fuse / of use / diffuse, like dif-
ference
distance and sunlight

what makes a place
sound [as close as one can get to] // a person
voicing, Leave, leave, risking
loss, &having said
distrust

April 8

And so, Alx the good heart broke through the film which separated himself from the audience. He acknowledged them, and made for the door. They were astounded.
So quiet, it sounded as though there was no one present to hear the silence: astounded. That only happens in the movies.

And in such bewildered astonishment, a confusion bereft of complication, Alx, too, wondered if the film was over, or if it was continuing: following his steps or, instead, the flickering reel.

n.r.&.f

To-me in Time, for Georges Poulet

Do you imagine I am speaking while

You’re reading

I am recording the fact that I am speaking

And writing that I spoke

Today

When you

Read, you will imagine I was speaking

I will be speaking today whensoever

You’re reading

I am speaking


.f

big sur

I can believe to speak to another person, to confer, to confess, to do all things co-, all sights seen together, is to inch toward one another without intention and succumb to the feeling of awe in unison, pressed against an outward facing rail. In that togetherness, companionship is an abandonment of any structure that explains itself (introspection) in favor of any structure that develops unwittingly (rain), an acceptance of the inconclusive, an acceptance of common sounds as uncommon ones, their amplification occurring suddenly and momentously.

n

in response to a deleted line once within a message directed to me

is a man, logically

is a businessman, still

or
is not a business man, for his loyalties are, evidently, not to the business?

n

whun

Broke
n
poor
folk

redun
dant id
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