
there was a
heavy ink
bloated
like a lung
and we peed
drunk and many
in a bar
until the deep
throat made a depth
down a dense dew
simply was over
burnt sun
over skin
a venom
like a word
drowned
in sorro
w.

there was a
heavy ink
bloated
like a lung
and we peed
drunk and many
in a bar
until the deep
throat made a depth
down a dense dew
simply was over
burnt sun
over skin
a venom
like a word
drowned
in sorro
w.

En la entrada del edificio
vi un anuncio,
se buscaba:
Grosero gordo tamaño absoluto
de forma gruesa llena de madura carne
con total calambre al caminar palpitando
al mundo como una marea nueva de arañas,
de puño enrojeciéndose con madrugada
tan dulce de tristes mesías,
los siglos de ciudades
antes de cristo tallados como tatuajes
en oro en polvo sobre el pecho
como el aislado aspecto de una divinidad
opulenta y decadente – ¡buen salario y horario flexible!
Entré sin encontrar las escaleras que darían
con la oficina. Hablé con el recepcionista
y le pregunté a qué hora cerraban.
Al salir del edificio entró
un hombre gordo y tan tosco
que cuando dio contra mi hombro, no se disculpó.
El sol estaba casi feliz y las nubes iban cuesta arriba
al ritmo de un dócil buey. Tenía algún tiempo para desperdiciar,
tiempo para rumiar con un cielo viejo sobre mi sien.
Me senté al no encontrar un alma con quien llorar.
Tenía una fiebre al borde de los huesos.
Y con tanto lugar por visitar alrededor
me deformé en silla y me envolví en inercia.
Miré la absurda blancura de mis uñas
mientras intentaba leer un periódico.
En casa recordé todas estas cosas
horas después.
Las fui maquillando todas estas cosas,
con púrpura e historia, con ceniza y lápiz labial,
con rubor y perfume hondo a olvido,
con joyas y con los dedos tocaba el piano
hasta el fin del reloj.

Hello.
Anybody here?
Heylooo?
A priest
and a prostitute
enter a bar.
They come up to the counter.
The bartender: what canna getcha?
The hooker smiles,
same as yesterday, Sam.
The priest, swollen
and sweating smiles,
I’ll have a dark century, Sam.
The clouds moved through
my notebook, anxious
as snails along rugged time.
Someone?
Anybody?
The prostitute shows
the sweetness of her blackberry nipples.
$15 a boob job.
Alfred white as a number says, OK.
I drew a whole city in my notebook
and
in one corner
I built a home
yellow with a mountain of beauty
inside the living room.
Knock, knock.
Alfred was gratified, the stars
trembling in his dark glassy pupils.
That’s $15, she said.
Half the pages are torn out,
theoretical mistakes I say;
but the bulk of my notebook
has black markings
like the shadows of birds
in a mile of snow.

They found a bulge
between Amaliegade
and Esplanaden
and it was in the news
and the hearts
shook with dread
a long sack of skin.like flesh
growing from a thin string
into an enormous
bulk
a man stood drinking the ship
in a circle of dizziness
the lights of police
and the endless of an image
no one could understand the revolution
and beauty of the bulge
it was hauled off the street
like a rainbow
as a miracle of the flame
as heresy from our pedestrian slopes
factories puffing shades
roaring with flags and chords
of iron ringing
in the suburbs
it is pronounced that this age
will collide with the pillar
stumps of science
and melancholy is a growth
like tumor
in the heads of those
that gaze with wonder
from above.

Cuando lindo y ebrio
me paro sobre la vida
miro entera la situación
y un montón de tiza
la emoción
y un montón de risa
la inteligencia
no entiende que bruma
y luna es misterio
hundido en fuente
en ratos de noche
cuando aguas en la ducha
aguas negras llenas de estrellas
me lavan el alma
ebria y linda
que tampoco
sus curvas entiendo
ni el invisible
silencio de roca
de la vida entera.

They told me to squeeze
structure
into home
and open windows
to air out essence
see I have been obedient
shedding coats of laughter
like films of light over
a miracle of corner,
and this thing
consciousness is hanging
like dust
in the atmosphere
but we’ve
made arrangements
and passion is hard
like furniture,
mahogany and steel
like dream and real
together bound
in braid
somewhere near
the end of this
and the world
tiny pretty thing
climbs into the air
like a moth
to disappear
over the object
and become invisible
like the rest of
us.
A tribute to rust and shine. Oct 3 – 2013.

It quivers
constantly and endlessly
ripens into new peculiar
shapes.
Needless to say
it increases weight
every minute,
often requiring immense
exertion to fit it in a corner
so it does not overshadow
the timid appearance of
the present.
It branches out
like a gluttonous tree
in all directions,
wavering disparate aspects
of itself without logic
or internal organization.
A primeval adolescent kiss,
a manure fight in the fields,
a quote from Montaigne
the location of masking tape
in a storage room, all mingle
shamelessly like an orgy
of bacteria in the Petri dish
of my mind.
Language is forced to perform
extreme feats of lucidity
to convey the peculiar manifestations
with which memory
fuddles the intellect.
I imagine a day
when consciousness of the present
will be completely drowned
by the swelling tsunami of memory,
leaving the brittle instant of now
floating like débris
on a flood of lifelong reminiscence.

A saint is a stain on white monotony
aloud he thinks: I
am a strange dot among the government of lines;
a mystic is a calm slip into abyss
all joking aside he says:
above the city leaps into tower;
a shaman is a subject under the tyranny of wholeness
aware of segments he asserts:
a fraction is mind lost in the order of totality;
alone in the world every man wonders:
afraid like a leaf in autumn my life
amidst the rain;
a poet is an absolute ark of air
abstruse and above all
a little puddle of reflection
at the end he writes:
a full world and its aura
asleep inside a shoebox
an allegory for barefoot monks.
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