Feeling a Certain Type of Way

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Molly I Mean

We came upon a bistro hidden in a paseo off the main drag. The place was filled with local graphic artists, sales reps, union people off to work. We jumped to the open deuce by the window. Our server was rapid and vivacious, apologetic about there being no teaspoons. “I hope it doesn’t affect your spinning,” she said. “I hope it doesn’t ruin your day. Some people it does.” 

SOMETHING SORT OF IGNITED IN ME

I cannot deny what I feel deep down.

I SAW YOU CHECKING HER OUT

My first year at Bard.

WE PROBABLY COULD HAVE GOTTEN A LARGE

And split it.

THERE NEVER WAS LIKE A FORMAL

Unveiling, opening, launch or drop.

I CAN’T DECIDE

Whether I like these shoes or not.

ONCE YOU GET IN THE AIR

Once your feet are like here.

AND I LOVE TELLING PEOPLE TOO

I go then they tried killing him

But he wouldn’t stay dead.

TALKING ABOUT

Contact a different office.

BUT IF I HAVE TO SAY ONE THING

He never aggressed.

MORE PEOPLE HAVE DIED THAN ARE CURRENTLY ALIVE

That could change, but not in my lifetime.

I’VE ALWAYS SAID PAIN IS SATAN

Hella paid.

BUT UH

Well yeah um.

ALL SEATS ARE WINDOW SEATS

I guess is the new theory.

HERE’S THE CATCH

Everything.

I GET THAT YEAH

But the thing is.

HE’S ALL MESTIZAJE

I’m like hmpf.

IT’S SIMPLE

Do not eat contaminated fish.

Choose healthy fish.

THERE FOR AWHILE

I was a loose puck in front of the net.

I WAS JUST GOING TO SAY

Somebody’s gotta be first.

HERE

Like this.

I’M LIKE

No I’m like yeah!

OH THERE’S MILLY

There she is.

Molly I mean.

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Become One with the Two

An airplane can fly from Thailand to Armenia, 3825 miles, in approximately 15-16 hours. But in Los Angeles, you can walk from Thai Town to Little Armenia in 15-16 seconds.

I’VE TAKEN A MILLION CLASSES

But this is like in-depth.

SHE LEFT FOR FIVE DAYS

Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday.
Yeah, five days.

NO THAT’S RULE NUMBER ONE

Brand name skin care.

SPRING 2018

Meter readers making their rounds.

Birds tweeting like a president.

SO UM LET’S SEE

What’s 9 percent of 5.4 billion?

YOU GO OUT MAYBE TWO MILES

After the rest stop.

THREE SOLSTICES

Original.

Suprema.

Deluxe.

SOUTH CHINA SEA

Asia #1 pretty.

90-DAY SUPPLY

Mail order.

Or off the corner.

ONE OF THOSE

Is the same as seven of these.

22 SYLLABLES

Landay.

MASTER LOCK COMBINATION

15-28-18.

TRIPLE HOMICIDE

Police arrest naked suspect.

4 DAYS ONLY TO SAVE!

Doors open at 6 a.m.!

A CLASS FIVE RAPIDS OF INFORMATION

Look at her feed.

6, 17, 29, 31, 44, 59

I don’t know if them are winning numbers or not.

PAGEANT ON THE 32^ND FLOOR

More than a few semi-finalists.

SEVEN WHICH IS ACTUALLY EIGHT

Two which is actually nine.

548 BROADWAY

Twelve o’clock Mass.

THEY CALL IT 93 MILLION

It’s more like 92.

HE AIN’T NOTHING BUT FOUR

My grandbaby.

IT WASN’T UNTIL I PUT TWO AND TWO TOGETHER AND CAME UP WITH FIVE

That I became a man.

INFORMED BY

Old Highway 12.

PLANET HOPPING

Save up to 47%.

BECOME ONE

With the two.

CISTERN

First you get yourself a 500-gallon tank.

Then you take and fill it up with 500 gallons of water.

TOP 20 TRENDS

Be the first to comment!

Q3 FORECAST

Six trillion.

FOUR TENS

My work week.

BOX 1 IS DIFFERENT FROM BOX 16?

I don’t know what to tell you.

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So Of Course Me

YEAH NO DUDE

I’m the special assistant to the obvious.

A one-man charette in favor of the inevitable.

I KICKSTARTED A GO FUND ME

So I could get a sandwich.

A different sandwich, not my usual.

THERE ARE CLEARLY TWO PARTS

Three parts.

I AM EXCITING OF MY FRIEND

She stay like whole month.

It’s depends.

SOME SEEDS SELF SOW IN SANDY SOIL

Some go yard.

Some go oppo.

Some their civil rights get in there.

YOU’RE A MONKEY YES YOU ARE

But why say that to a cat?

FROM WHAT ANABEL WAS TELLING ME

It wasn’t a race.

It was a stampede.

I SAW WHERE

They were saying

Some rain earlier.

IT’S IN MY BLOOD

Nine times out of ten.

I REMEMBER THINKING

Epicycles?

SO OF COURSE ME

I had to mess with it.

SOMETHING BROKE LOOSE

And it decided not to be

A lazuli bunting anymore.

THE WINE WAS SENTIMENTAL IN A CHEAP AND DRAMATIC WAY

I was sitting

Just as I am now

Eating wild game jerky

Wondering what the fuck happened.

THERE’S STILL TIME TO WIN A FREE NIGHT

If you only believe.

HERE COMES A TRAIN

You ever been hit by a train?

BUT THEN AGAIN

I’m not you.

AND SEE THIS IS WHERE

Acupuncture won’t work.

DON’T WANT TO PUSH IT?

I have the playbook.

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Mind Dump (cont'd)

TODAY’S SHOOT

Interrogates as it unpacks.

INCLUDED IN THIS HOUSEHOLD

Kurdish

Hungarian

Chinese

Indian

Malaysian

Tibetan

Haitian

Korean

HEY YOU BILLIONAIRE!

Time to eat!

WATCH OUT

Crazy old white male.

Coming through.

Half Moe.

Half Dan’l Boone.

THE PRODUCER ARRIVES IN HER PAJAMAS

We’re only in rehearsal, but still.

SLOW DOLLY

She and her friend.

PLEASE REMAIN SEATED

As we sing in reverse.

ACTUALLY

It’s the thing.

THE HARDEST PARTNER RUSHES IN

Mockingly echoing the melismatic passages.

AND THE THING IS THAT

We’re in Sitka.

FROM MY PRIVILEGED POSITIONALITY

I’m just a blood clot away.

ACCORDIONS DO THEY CONCLUDE?

Why? Because they had to?

THERE’S NOTHING ON HIS FEED

So I have no idea.

I JUST WONDER IF

.

Monday in St. Pete

Is today or yesterday?

BUT YOU KNOW RIGHT?

They don’t really die.

CRICKETS WITH PERMITS MAY BEGIN AT FIVE A.M.

To where every

Oleander rabbit or

Donkey on a motorbike

Can’t believe their ears.

MELAMINE RISING

Towhee trios doing floor exercises.

A salvation army on trampolines.

THAT’S A “W”

Aplauso.

And I’m shot out.

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fooling around like you're not supposed to be doing

IT ONLY TAKES LIKE LESS THAN

Twenty minutes.

WINTHROP, WA

Like just.

I don’t know.

CLEVELAND, OH

She found herself

Quoting her ex-husband.

LAWRENCE, KS

The gentlemen are upright

Girls swing your hands back that way.

GEORGETOWN, KY

He only delivered one.

He didn’t deliver two.

DAWN, LAKE ERIE

Fireworks the night before.

BANK OF AMERICA

99 cent store.

WEDDING GOWN

In the dry cleaner’s window.

RANDY’S

An American sports bar type place.

RIGHT CAN YOU BELIEVE

The situation in LA?

HE’S ALL

I know.

SHE DIDN’T

And so yes.

THE DODGERS SWING LESS

Than any team

In baseball.

I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU

But this heat’s making me crazy.

YEAH NO NO

That’s what I mean.

Smart but not academic.

DANIEL POSTED SOMETHING ABOUT

Millie moving back east.

HE ROCKS AND DELIVERS

Patience is the key 2 success.

MY BITCH IS ALWAYS ON GO FOR ME

Arizona to Indiana.

HE HAS THE HARDEST HIT BALLS IN THE GAME

He just hasn’t found any holes yet.

I MEAN I BELIEVE IT

I’m just saying.

You know.

WHEN WAS THAT?

What?

I TOLD BRIANA

I’m like Briana.

Are you sure?

OOOOOMANNY

New hairdo!

NO I YES I

No so yeah so.

I NEED TO

Send you or

Send him um

Yeah.

FINALLY I JUST SAID

Yeah OK.

How’d the Doyers do?

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Profanity

RESORT STYLE LIVING

A mouth on her and

A body that won’t quit.

RUNNING A TAB AT HELL’S KITCHEN

Her team: Rabbit, Squirrel, and Possum.

SHOOTING THE PIER OF OTHERING

Geeking out on multimodal otherness.

IMPOVERISHED PLANET

Moonless.

PERFORMANCE PLANET

Jumping through rings.

BIGGISH PHARMA

Putting a human face on human puppets.

MY FATHER’S UNIFORMS

Being worn by young Martians.

NO FLY LIST

Grandparents of unsuccessful grandkids.

GODZILLA

Rearticulating otherhood.

THE SWOLL-EST HEAD IN THE PEEWEE-EST TOWN

Seeming to think

He’s an idol or something.

TOO MUCH THOUGHT

Subject to approval.

MINI COMBO

My body tells me.

WINNERS ONLY

Can’t you read?

BACKSTAGE

Security everywhere.

THE HUMAN HURRICANE OFF MEXICO

Reservations advised.

ORALITY

The poem.

WAVE BENDER

He died from a fall in a nursing home.

And then came back and pitched a complete game.

OUR RISEN SAVIOR

Jesus Fucking Christ.

BITTERSWEET CHOKING

I don’t care what anybody says.

BARKY BARK BARK

Woofy woof woof.

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