11.11.09

The steel workers’ proposal for the decommissioning of Beaubourg


Start into sleep sleep the truism ‘frigidaire’

the emu ‘today’ kiss kiss poor plastinated Scotus:

             which gosub homesick tight to the gut projection

             fail fails to convince. Mr Bojangles eats dog,

             tap shoes. Aghast at ‘The Dead Sea Experience’,

             the number of the beast you dialed has not been

work works like a dream go to work on an edge go

pet a hairy flipchart are you receiving


over. Shame is her swimsuit-round manifesto, lime

mint soap up the wretched ball queen perfidious

             sow / up for gonzo dog treat paddle-assed

             hokum still still selling in Japan see adipose

             four. That wrecking-ball trustafarian

             guinevere trapped in the afternoon concrete

prairie flip flip six second glimpse of Duran Duran,

or the chemical wad that blinds the part-time


poodle valet. Gin and alfalfa mousse it’s for washing the

car with, or maybe Heimlich Manoeuvre’s the

             name of a German porn director.

             Are we asleep yet? How does the honeycomb

             get in the hive? Now yellow round the tree

             and trumpets shall sound (novelty goddamn

door chime funniest thing) your sheet of interests

and accumulations and multiplex whatnot kitty kitty


tube sox my but the LAPD are so

vulgar. What do you point to? Evidence

             swig say vanilla essence burn up the hissy-fit

             carpool lane like grease and slash or

             lightning. Hands turn spin thrift uptake

             inhibition every one wants to be

childlike. Script says ‘cheep cheep’, mother says

never wear diamonds to the ob-gyn we say


stow it. We saw Fanny By Gaslight it’s a

band you freakazoid. Nothing ventured nothing

             earwax everyone stay stay calm the

             millipede in the salsa what’s he doing the

             backstroke slash-fic butterball spell spell

              license as in driver’s license

as in rammed to the hilt on cranberry meth

stroke scrotal bouillabaisse up your chimney howdy


pardners. Free’s free. Free as the tawny doodad.

Free as a kite in the reckoning up of critical

              influence using avoirdupois for the

              craic dude huffing a dream from the bag the

              milk came in and we have twenty-one

              dogs and they’re all called Arson damn we

stand in the park ‘n’ shout Arson Arson

twilight verdigris thriftstore parakeet underscore


Jim Beam doobie doo Whitney’s an oreo

whore. Dionne’s wig’s on funny honey look at the 

             sky ha made you look. Let’s kick it.

             Teenage girls always slit their wrists in the bath

             week in week out you can set your

             watch and Jesus comes like a gift in the

cereal. He’s a healthcare magnate. Sure you do. Sure

you do. Sure. It’s a matter of private conscience®.


Knife. Knife. What in the picture says knife. Where

you live that goes knife. Kissing his boyfriend’s eyelids

             knife. Pride in authority / grace in deferral

             knife. The climate deranged in Kyoto

             matinee knife. Knife by the way of

             leaves that fall and the boyfriend sleeping

barely near as adrenalin when the emergency comes.

How they will face their long-lost families, dearly.




- Chris Goode, No Son House [Barque, 2004] pp. 4-5



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