Postmodern Treatise

Sound bite. Movie clip. Snippet. MTV. Eighth grade reading level Crib sheet Cliff note sound bite all right. TV personality, reality.

Big box. Soul in hock. Sound bite. Snippet.

Clip it, rip it, tip it, redline. Working over time.

Mom-dad. Soul in hock. Make it big, full of talk. What’s it

all about?

Name game: Frank Lloyd Wright. Le Corbusier, Modernism, Colonialism, Hedonism, Catholicism, Jesus Christ, Elvis, The Beatles. Hand me

a gun, a blade, a razor, a barb, a swastika: call me a Jew, a fag, a pretty girl. A slut. A bitch a ho, you want to pound, pound, pound, you want

a hand job. a night job. a day job. a job job. a knob job. you want to pound pound pound

pound, pound, pounding Ezra Pound and Mussolini

thud-a-thud-thudding WCW, WCW

Dublivay say dublivay, dublivay

Say can you see through the ozone, the haze? The sunless

skywriting is another billboard on the moon, pizza, tacos, Gucci, high top

Sneakers, I am looking for a metaphor, I am seeking a simulacrum to your experience to
make it my own, to steal your life, because I have none to give

sound bite, movie clip, snippet, MTV, reality

I breathe, I eat, I sleep, I piss, I breathe, I eat, I sleep, I piss, I piss, I shit, I eat, I breathe

I thud-a-thud, I pump my blood, I eat, I shit, I breathe, I breathe shit. I am pissed.

Sleep with the fishes, run away with spoon and dishes, ee cummings, cumming, sleeping,

Working, drilling, cutting, burning, dodging, folding, cutting, clipping, writing, breathing, Working, drilling, cutting, burning, dodging, folding, cutting, clipping, writing, breathe—Can you breathe on your own? Because you own keys, doesn’t mean you can do as you please. Start. Turn. Grind. Pump. Burn. Sunless sky. Rising tide.

I breathe, I eat, I sleep, I piss, I breathe, I eat, I sleep, I piss, I piss, I shit, I eat, I breathe

I thud-a-thud, I pump my blood, I eat, I shit, I breathe, I breathe shit. I am pissed.

I am voiceless. I am a machine. Please

Unplug