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poems

now equipped with life-saving technology did I say poems

I meant drones 

damn

NO HEAD OF GILLES DE RAIS

He has absolutely no skill in defending himself. He moves about violently from one impulse to another, which destroys him.

I insist: this is a child.

But this child had at his disposal a fortune that appeared inexhaustible to him and nearly absolute power.

                                    --Georges Bataille, The Trial of Gilles de Rais

We will never see the satanic head or eye

of Gilles de Rais made fabulous in paint

or carving. All facets of his dream-world—

voraciously prismatic—are kept in the book of tortures

the vile bon-bons of his fancy

fell from his brain, to pulsate on his tongue,

wherever chapel boys swelled with song

in Champtocé, La Suze, Tiffauges, Machecoul.

Gilles derived from a long line

of war-lords

and rabbit-faced prodigies.

At his trial at Nantes he doubted not

to be convicted, then burnt, by temporal authorities

but nor to be forgiven by the Church,
which owed him much

& whose children he had raped and devoured

rejoicing

wherever chapel boys swelled with song,

in Champtocé, La Suze, Tiffauges, Machecoul.

Morning Poem 380 (Chet Baker)

fuck me that turnip is going to be president

of this shit

!

I am listening to Chet Baker just trying stay sane

tranquilize me Chet just enfold me

a little, in your gentleness

as if to say ‘Thomas,

you may be wrong about this’

Chet plays it cool

‘My Funny Valentine’ is sad

and cool on my forehead

maybe the fucking turnip

will be cool

maybe my head will make the

adjustment, the necessary reversion

to how things obtained

in my fascist years

(thanks, old friend,

for sticking with me through my fascist years)

when I too was a bloated, ignorant bitch-boy

who felt free, and happy just

to rock, to barf, to kill

in the metropolis

Chet you toothless junkie

get me out of this

11/2/2016

2 DOGS

my one dog is black
as the moonless night

my other dog glows
like the moon itself

especially now that
the other one is gone

ITEMS

WHAT FOURS

(after Jonathan Williams)

2 Architectural Postcards from Gatlinburg, TN

Dearest Christopher Madeline Sam

greetings from quite the

most hideous place have

every found self in

God Himself would puke

if that is his

non-existence were not completely

confirmed by very existence

of this cesspool of

vulgarity and mental desolation

please you must never

come here Love Thomas

*

Dearest Francie piece of

shit edifice on reverse

of this writing is

single handsomest structure here

by a long shot

Never come here not

even on your way

to Dollywood where you

should also never go

I mean it Thomas

Robot

You have a problem?

That’s not the right

tool for my problem.

Archilochos

Archilochos: hummingbird rising out

of Chaos  soldier-exile

poet-mercenary scrotum-scrutinist

shield abandoner du monde

Email from P. J. C. Field

My main reaction remains

what it was before:

entities are not to

be postulated without necessity

Happy New Year Peter

Merlin’s Mother

There is probably no

precaution one can take

against sex with devils

quite beyond the intellect

to predict the history

of hell necessitating sex

with devils and demons

I heard she was

insane and her eye

had a prismatic periphery

Dixit Elizabeth Stambler, Bard College, 1987

Keats did not believe

in God because women

had cancer how could

he or it ever

permit women to have

such a horrible disease

D. H. Lawrence

white trembly English girls

their sickness needs a

remedy or a final

finishment quite beyond imagination

have you built your

ship of death girls

time to build that

Penates

my god is the

tutelary god of statues

broken open by stupid

people looking for treasure

Copia

a cestrophendonē: an apparatus

for hurling stones, not

dissimilar from a funditor

but not a ballista

or scorpio. An harpē

is a sickle-bladed sword

larger than a falx

a five prong harpago

is an heinous hook

Note from Molly

Your Easter poem is

frightening very effective JESUS

tuna’s in the fridge

3 Medical Definitions

Opocephalic

A monster characterized by

fusion of the ears

one orbit and absence

of mouth and nose

Opisthonos

Arched position of the

body with feet and

head on the floor

caused by tetanic spasm

Tetrotus

Born with four ears