Sunday, October 2, 2022

Joshua Martin, Five Extreme Experimentalist Pieces

 

Headless Body Ate My Hamster, image by Joshua Martin 


Encompassed drumming trinket  
 
Underwater baby
              requests the nature of defeat
wadding crow brain side table
                                   extravaganza
                            [!]
         Affair of the whispered garbage pails
         makes vats of turquoise oblivious
                                             , tho TRANSPARENT
                                               lung radiation
                                                           spikes &
                                          inches of evaporation
                                          snails.
                        Through cover of night
, pagans practice synchronized swimming
  routines
            , draw analogous central
              collection agency switchblades
                                               [??]
     H-E-L-L-O-OOOOOOOOOOOO
                                            . Our little cotton balls
                                              arrange for sedimentary  
                                              implosion tractor
                                                                       trailer.
                       Car[LOT] wispy
                       carnage [of] an [otter]
                             re[visited] anesthesiologist
                                                      [voting] fellowship
                                             residency to the
                                                                  [STAR]s.
 
 
 
Days Spittoon Maladjusted Cornea
 
if cracked
       Glenn Miller          spinal
                          convulsion. Rough
                 cut                         hanky stretched
   thin            /        caressed                   cotton
candy soulless foodstuffs.
                                   An arrow
                       placed            hair-length,
                                revolving door symphonic
                                buffalo.
                soldier of.
        Toothpick               an AxE - - -
                                                something
                                    in the erroneous
                                                        cauliflower
                                            that legs
                   a sunset.
Wooed                     against                    OdD ball
                        hoof,
          prOOf                &      positive reincarnated
 couch cushion.
                     Winnebago,
               undergraduate    pelvis CiVil WaR
      juice
cleanse. After
                   delight,
         comes         the      deluge
                     or,                     frenzied
            tabloid                              pillow
talk.
 
 
 
Star Policy (pawn)
 
     In medium
a    f    t    e   r   NOON
 neutron mushed
pelvis      ,       staring
        pre-VERBAL
lockjaw     .    [a form
not ascertained
                  through
           fuselage     ,
tho burials] - - -
             Bugger
goats never
circled
        dried
    fruited
           shadows
, laying hillsides
c
oa
   ted candied
stamina puzzles
.          Both bliss
    & full-fledged
mosquito paths
f
o
ot    ,   FALLEN
   arch        ,
makeshift wheel
         barrow a
                     r
                     r
                     o
                     w
swallowed blister
metals.
 
 
 
Congruent with restraints

Dilemmas of the mouse behind the curtain
adding to irascible vindicated images of capital
     cleavages                  transpire         ,         once
saying through insufficient teeth
                                              :::::
                               “neoclassical paradigm
                                 makes it a multiple
                                 system theory irrational
                                 in achievement” & then
passes the brick when trying to usurp
conflict assessment habitual thinking
     ;;;;; internal/external lacunae
                adverse abstract dichotomy
                  instrumental to repeated
                    institutions & being
                      informal repeated
                        accommodations
;;;;; (well claimed relative instance
        reproduces narrow constraints
        , red herring complexes  ,  who
        works from within  ,  never
        tires of infestations) —
                                      to throw
                               cause           briefly
incurring                          vulnerability
              sections — commercial
    affectations emerge by definition
    & scattered like household planets.
 
 
 
Whispered Frequencies of Enigmatic Assumptions
 
Twin bed flames SPOKE in convoluted mischief
    :     mischance     :
                        perchance     :
      PeR                         PoUnD     By
ponder                                     wandered verbal
              acoustical silence
    ,
     InSiDeS     RoT     diamond     thrashing
/ once eaten twice spiral limber lip grafter
  momentary handcuff systems of ToRtUrE \
                                        [childhood
                                         house
                                         WaRnInGs,flattened
sprig of Velcro visor
                hOOp VaIn RaIn
          , the same said at every shower,
     the spinster wrapping paper quarterbacks
     piecing together carved bull sighted
                                                lightening
                                      aGeNts , gross , grouse ,
                        soused
             WC              FIELDS                of         earthbound
bloodletting
                 synthetic muffin mistress
                 of previous cutting book club
                                      , HiP sWaY
                         , As pointed cheek boned floorboard
                           melt the stylistic NeCk tattered
                           weeds , [Gesture,Seed,Breed,Comic,
                                                   COMMUNITY] >>> the
bath that broke the blinded
craze for gun totting
              , identical lashing intruder destined for shredding.
 
 
 
—Joshua Martin

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