Sorry, Tree
from Sorry, Tree
UNNAMED NEW YORK
here in the beautiful
heat
digging & digging for
you
in your wide & wonderful
pause
day subway
de doggie
I was trying
to say it
writes
in bites
citizen aged local literary
queer cocksucking shop-
ping pussy
manifesting not
will Arnold win
if you enjoyed
smoking in bars
study French expressionism
employ your
loss
buy a car
take a course
make a college
buy something old
again & again
& again
the sneaker
swings
I like it here:
it’s orange
& my hands are free.
The new book
was composed by picking shit
out of a wave.
Wherever they said vague
I thought vague
I couldn’t help laughing
standing at the bottom
of my pit.
I thought Mark Twain was
here in the
crater of a giant
tomato
big artists like error.
The tomato
Missed.
Being intended
to hit god
it hit his mother
I speak for
her.
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