for the confined, improperly intent, even virtually afflicted

FaCe SuPpLaNt : : incognito bbq crisis TrIp FoR oNe : : ‘hurry, vast, blasted, checkerboard topography in the skinned antelope of running in place fantasy’ : : > ! < : : Whisks, frozen solid & disappearing in honeycomb barrels, careening, less ApT a sTuNtEd bOweL = = = SOUP, dangle, placemat BoiL : : ‘To Whom A Jackal Motions’ : : > ! < , if insular appendage ScreaMiNg : : [lobotomy or BUST!] / , NaTionaLizEd stupidity, standardized cruelty : : > fuzzy recorded INTIMATIONS [a pallbearer wearing pastoral prints and thanking an already started pontification for the bureaucratic opportunity] / = / = : : WaRy CoNdUiT : : handsome farewell distinctions arranged to jeopardize detuned sheep INSTINCTS : : > ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! < : : / {suitable HeArT MuRmUr, loose Ingmar Bergman toothache repellent = > \, a wisp of an expunged curiosity / = = = dementia, undoubtably a TriBuTe to OBLIVION} : : ‘What difference a deal can manipulate through rumbling celebratory rocking’ : :  Aqueduct appropriation measured as palpitations : : @ MiSTaKes, @ Functional Anarchy, @ Assembled Poison Birthing, @ Miseducation Community Backlash, @ Hollow Censorship Phase, @ Advances Declining Brain Functions, @ Influential Dispersing ChIcKeN GuTs : : > ! < , > ? ? ? ? ? < , : : Yip, Yup, Yep, Yip, Yup, Yep : : permanent, enclosed Napoleonic tombstone wisdom tOOth Equinox ScUm ; ; in place, grandly commuted, tortured, alliances of filthy advertisers gloating / : / ‘Our friends glow in the guilt-ridden wilderness crooning like eradicated monuments’ : : > DrunkeN! < : : hast thou a boredom to entangle among the sarcastic appeals for PeaCe? ? ? ? ? : : | [quickened cameo, a TON, an anvil MiGHt crush OuR toeNaiL wrists] / Us, without nourishment, living in the chain-linked aspirations / {discouraged lectures, sleepwalking politicians, unrelatable suburbanites, callous publication fevers}] / / : : blistered carrion BLADES : : Manufactured Turmoil : : Soiled Spectacles : : Streaming, a tiny elevator YeT AgAiN collapsing : : > ! < , > ? < , / : : , ‘Suppositions sprained like emphatic sneezing plunderers : : which thronged? STreeT refreshments : : advantageous Shrinking : : Violent Rhetorical Machine Gun Morons : : 10,000 volts : : Active sundry viruses explaining assessment application mannerism BiRtHdAy LaKeS : : Live & Let Shriek : : delinquent cellular substitutions, fleeing holiday missions disposed, convoluted : : > deadpan apparatus Bleach : : The Orb to the Cosmos : : evident anxiety, the impact implies a pathos : : [citation, lizard skulls, MaLaDy, PaViNg, the majority laughing aT The Suffering : :

FoG GrOg A BaNteR sLoG
, SOAP madness haranguing
paisley chocolate harpoon: :
[lash, handlebar, recurrence-
based ToNgUe scraping Analysis],
: : - - - MuMp BuMp DuMp - - -
: : relay opioid hand cranking
silvery residue hopelessness > ? <,
OR:
BEYOND SCROUNGING DYSFUNCTION
AND:
PERSONALITY ILLNESS CONTEXT
: : the bridge, hysterical & floating,
characterizing itself as tragically exposed
, the 21st century a wasteland [IN
ALL SENSES!], hollowed OuT school=
yards, stressing Bubbling, Perspectives
: : One Symptomatic Bullfrog As A
Diseased Model of Negation : : ? : :
of exhaustive perception mangled
in bitter abnormalities of society, : :
A RaNgE oF Self-Immolation TuToRiAlS
: : , [longitude, denoted stopgap, wearied
personality TrAiTs] : :, ‘But what of
inborn categorizations?’ : : Phew! ! ! !
: : hired as a caretaker, the cantankerous
fragility of the ‘FAMILY” , the contradictions
rendered subjective NON-ENTITIES : :
rattle : : rattle : : confined to EnDuRe
institutional MadNeSs MalaISe : :

frozen pointer
finger drafts
mocks / scars /
cancellation /
famished weeping /
carnal baskets /
UN=EVENT=FUL /
/ = / = / = / = / = / =
‘What gesture
makes sleeping
sickness obscene
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?’
/ = / = / = / = / = /
watchful objects
vocabulary ItcH
rArE studious
bicycle deployment
AILMENTS / / : / /
that JuMpS / / ,
NoRmaTiVe flare-ups /
crazed, of blood,
flowing / the fringe /
yielded statistics,
IN BASIS / WRUNG
? / OUT=WARD
appearances clouded
/ = / = / = / = / = / = / =
/ safeguarding the
visionary DADA TEXTS : : / : :

chewed, clenched against a sagging face, opened up to reveal the exit

fOAm splash [ponder?] [objectionable?] - - - central cRaShInG sycophantic blushing BLISTER[ed][ing] - - - ? ? ? ? ? / shaped, simpering, coinciding As PresenT \ => => => cLImBiNg flustered bodies quoting fluids [?bodily?] : : : NoRtH, tragic, political degenerate [As ALL!] - - - matter flushing into irrelevancy - - - UN=COMMON, hobbies, KLANG! KLANG! LUSTER! => => => illogically [present, joint, vanishing bOb BOB bob] / failings / flailing / euphemistic nostrils as thinking recounts perils & verifications & flaming as colliding COMpuTeRizED => => => blueprinted, swoon, SOAR [!] [!] @ @ @ @ : MaiM : : : ‘My, my, my, my, my’ : : : Released . . . destined . . . / reversed splurging toenail clip-clop, clip-clop, sugared and dangled cotton ball pubic odyssey & tornado eczema spindles / : : ‘Frayed? Demented? Drained through every pore of miscellany? Pounding? Slime without all the drunken skinning psychology’ : : : > | heave, hovering vacuum, spellbound, the daydream of a square football | < [Run in Place] / / / / / (((((SoaP Grieving Opacities))))) \ \ \ \ \ [BARK! like a chicken pinwheel spaghetti rollercoaster shrink]; ; ; ; ; ! Bend, that MiST! re=BOUND=ed ? ? ? ? ? => => => => => @ $ @ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ * perverse, perfunctory, rigidly shaded : [the dilemma bombast], basking in the films of ORSON WELLES, , , , , / guess, second, another destructive anal projection : It’s All Death All the Time and Without the WILL to STOP It or To Change Course => => => => => Hop! Skip! Press the washing machine cuddling antennae waking disasters [Plane Crash Ennui just another Symptom] : : : | scooting keychain mandible brain jelly mythical ear canal safety pins | : : : ‘Adjust? Squirm? The sound mixed Too High’ , , , , \ filtered indecisive signifiers, galloping horn of plenty Flying Saucer Eyeball Soup Grenades / / / : Pausing, ventured, stolen artifacts regurgitated / / / : : : : : ‘Release old-fashioned profiteering’ / Notational Designs / / / / / : : | what does lingering decay tell in the light of pacified cultural expression? ? ? ? ? | => => => => => long since to disobey prevailing MooDs & MoReS > [requiems GREAT & SMALL] < log cabin ticking, jumbled linguistic fevers, anachronistic chewing gum : BLADES & BLADES & BLADES : : : igloo hair gel memento : : : TaTTooED blankets screaming SPLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tricks > sandy > ossified NecKs [like chapter breaks]
, examinations / woozy / intermingling dartboards
sullen recapturing CaRgO [included in manuscripts
first appearing within a capsized helmet filled with
powdered sugar and buried beneath an operetta] /
sullied forms studied in the confines of a forlorn
tenderized muted melancholy misapplication >
‘Whose confusion imports these black holes into the
mangled situations awkwardly necessary to corrupt
the methodical derangement?’ > : corrugated and
metallic and swinging from antlers > : ‘Imaginary
atmospheres building catalysts, pointed, isolated,
phrased to suffer the spare anguish of a bowling ball
both subversive and redundant’ > [finely as such so
acute], irksome diseased doctrines; / ; / ; / > ? <
, => urgently softened, trifles, obstacles, shadows
chiefly slackened, depressing, the nature waiting
to poison tender coincidences / => ‘Attributes are
chiefly unfavorable as the larynx becomes adversely
infected with damnation’ : an aside: immediate
striking effects : cringed: wallow a peculiar point
marking operational scars speaking Spanish without
a NeT / => => => => => ‘Can taking a reverse or,
at least less subtle, opinion impair the formatted
credibility?’ => / disabused / All cannot conduct the
SELF : / / / / / => => => => an expired situation, it
appeared frail in the moonlight, a paid hint to fork
over welts, mishaps, blunders, scenes planned
without cleanliness or reservation or whips and
chains / / ! \ \ - - - ‘Little ditch mannered sacrificial
basis for philosophical contagion’ - - - , sourly
ascertaining circumstances No Better Than Yet
Another Car Wreck => => hollow, delusional,
a sketchbook policy, supposed latitudes isolated
/ => => expurgation of all religious artifacts and
language for the benefit of humankind => so shall
diffused provoking insertions, under the skin
/ > TaG! => => , ^ * ^ ; ; ; ; ; assumed MoRe
hAvE LeSs FaVoreD [?] => => making ViViD
actions MeLt = ] , ] = = / / (((supposed claims
))))) / /  \ \ / /  \ \ , ‘Throats constrict to bring
distilled warts into view’ => => / performance
space, frothy, bulbous tubes lacking equalities
/ bubble BUBBLE bUbbLE => => BrIgHt lack
fired ResuLts / [apparent: absorption of gaseous
pregnancies] / => yeast as palpable as generational
chaos, slipping connections: proof without
an argument: hypothetic analogies: palpably ToRn
: / / / / / => => =>, both turn the generalities of
annihilation into an ideology: , : [drain into
despair] : : : [productive sickness, the bladder, Is
trapped [!] => => => \ - - - neither obvious
NoR machine generative - - - / => => ‘Weave,
curse, malfunction’ = [sites of agency, glimpses
of geographical references]: One Place, One Tone , /
: / = = = arising electrical frequency MuSt Be
BlaMeD oR, AT LeaSt bAlaNceD = = = shielded
dangers and questionable solutions ([- - -]), ProBe
, spin, familiar MooD swinging epidemic causes,
idiosyncratic disposition and small-pox inducing
policies = = = Recommended sOrrOw = = = UN=
SPEAK=ABLE ignorance and HaTe = = => =>
the land, a sickroom / , ‘Very mortal glittering
footnotes’ => => contracted maladies otherwise
inconclusive <= <= <= / / / / / : ‘What favor in
laboring illness could handless phenomena have
to contribute to a kissing booth diatribe?’ => =>
=> => INACTIVE!!!!! => => => INDIFFERENCE
! ! ! ! ! => => => => careful, lest the degree of
impotent morality will contaminate all realms =>
                                                                   => =>
geSTuRe remains an apprentice cartographical anomaly, equipment priced To KiLL, public incidence dating BacK centuries : | pollution probably engrained | = [mathematical sUmS quickly FaDiNg] : foundry, foolish, unremarkable narrative dominance => => ONWARD! is this up? ? ? ? ? => / any wayward signaling spoonful of chlorine-infested water characteristic of unsubstantiated influences => => KNOCK-KNOCK-KNOCK, the tick-tock of degrading knowledge : [formidably obscure] = [‘OBSCENE?’ (SO WHAT?)] => => => dislodging conspicuous boundaries : ‘Are you a valve or an engine or merely a shadow attached to an training mission?’ => => / / / / / coastal mustaches drawn on, ready to crumble at any moment => => departing sundial outfitted to pose for wreckage: [magical thinking causes unwanted decline], predicaments claiming attention] : disrobing sinkholes rarely photographic : ‘Seldom seen, a genre without relevance, a common cloth composing increased cigarette prisms’ => => => WilD, awkward, mistranslated visions, submerged combinations, veiled and rendered a trash heap => => => microscopic sufferings, NuMb mobile phone dementia => => => hOOk, caught, finely engraved with the names of illiterates <= <= <= FuNcTiON withOUT thought? Dizzy withOUT movement? <= <= <= ] , [ , ] = ; ; ; ; ^ ^ ^ [Carbolic Lotion for Pimples] - - - Cares of the Toilet - - - [olive tar], Inhalation of Superfluous Hair - - - , . . . after working through typhoid fevers, perfumed marbles cautiously enthusiastic inside a basket => => Crow’s Feet => Brain Baths => Obese Husbands => [for paid linens, some rather dazzling ammonia scalps] : ‘Thirst for slaughtered subjectivities’ : => => after brushing the dilapidated shoulders, an unrefined irritation of the skin drowns the art of walking:

Gliding, less seen, dyed crystal armchairs, parading molasses face masks : A Bent Age : A Coarse freckle, public Sulphur tweezers baring impossibilities:

Reservoir stimulant / acidic porcelain / endeavors, after sensations, then devise remedies for an uncertain age / Concealing / Dull / No secrets, only sleep / fresh oblivion / tempered pulse and transient days
=> => =>
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Joshua Martin is a Philadelphia based writer and filmmaker, who currently works in a library. He is a member of C22, an experimental writing collective. He is the author most recently of the books isolated version of nexus (Pere Ube), lung f,r,a,g,m,e,n,t,s before grazing *asterisk* (Moria Poetry), and Cubist Facelifts (C22 Press) . He has had numerous pieces published in various journals. You can find links to his published work at joshuamartinwriting.blogspot.com