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