Selected Poems

Hermaphropoetics

from Solitary Workwoman

Part 3: Fire Clay
from The Joe 82 Creation Poems

Selections from
I am the Babe of Joseph Stalin's Daughter

Not Be Essence That Cannot Be



   BRUISE YOU NOT HONEYCOMB


                 By you I ting
           the thing make tree kang 
               aroo,  for,  three 
                     muscle
                       in
   wheatworm, mary-josher, papIo reversionary.  Be eating
                         and sore big
                           son-sin
                           sin-son
                              g
                                   day of a babylonia
                        bag in coptifity, bacteria caught everybody
                    to contrary me
                Gas, bruise you bruise you 
           not honeycomb or mama not-Czech 
                  Oslop oslop 0 shove
                     with a pang in
   Kings and the queens baby wagging their three vomits
                      and spice wet
                         fin-gers
                          tut-oo-war
                             f                     
                              novaskoshia and eleven bones 
                        not a shrub sick and all likeable and naked 
                  contemplative with skrotums
            Billy-america sit on ground plum
      peeling a pleasant shit socking the fresh water
                  Oos Osoos soo
                      or suffering
   for the mango language matter of innocence around the trunk
                         of the tree
                           phaglagala
                              merry-and-big
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