Grind 2, image by Jeff Bagato
excerpts from If You’re There
wait for it
ancient gel words
unmold center
coherence lack
words made
sensitive to atmosphere
they
decay
on contact
having lost tongue
baby coo spittle
wee wah
nonagon clip cluster
wait your
hack
wait for
it
tell a story or
time
fresh
time repack
gel along. a tonic
a prophylactic
medium
against the
decay of thought
that thought
thinks back
time
fresh illusion
wait your
illusion
wait
your decay
wait for
it
repack tongue
repack story
wait. wait
nolo
wait for it
A Take Piece
take tooking
a window look
treacher
fellow
nud
gabble lack dignity chosen for speed
got speed got hollow got craft
another
look there
another felt piece
a take piece
finger loan pap later
of course. a
diction
dictated under desk pass
blown across loosely
one marble rolls
toward
another
another looking
another look
lapse loss
short circuit trails
leaps loops
a lazy moon.
a regular
not this
moon
another one we’ve
seen before
time doesn’t
mean security
lapse loss
lopes
a rare one,
jackalope or
snipe
the bucket).
huge difference in strength
of his ult
between
solo queue
and organized team
the comets disguise
frame rate drops & stuttering
this time it’s solid
nobody remembers
those parts
be major.
don’t know
this where
a fife might scream
leading bakes locked against tides
loss. pitch dark
sacred albumen
a toad licked
living
outside time
don’t know
climb the
beast
heart
back beat to beat
talon affiliate
doom
angel
class align
don’t
know
sell it again
where emergency
clever
hoop rate
nylon gallon
tick on test
daylight another gleam to sip trip
asking as
if
dolor
nag
amygdala honesty
trips over
silly skills lean
below
tried
mast
taller feature
waste ground
fant oblate fine mini quest
allst uck
in the
wrong places
gravity oblate
gravity oblate bane
clay
gash
apprentice
whist
anon clag stalling
(stall)
jersey bats /
black as night
cast
/ about
fears
talks too
long
wide between (words)
but
there
in the holes
silence
paste gainsays leverage rewind
maxi much blath
told which way
nat panner
tan axe
late pummel
wax and will and
make
available
hoosegow placate myst
tack doll
feld piece
wheats bone tindle
line on
prone
reason mix fester band along
folt
nasty
get back
get back
get back
Let’s go to the liquor store and go back to the hotel
Naze tin lik
prosit treatise melt fallow
it’s so it’s
like that
when we
dream
later
foot tell
lot bin
loot fell
Shipment fetter past docket
nod cot lost tonsil marker
tray pape mesh fin pole
dest ot jab lok
olaf skin tot
naddles
shogar
trocar
plath
bost hallow fot paid
no bonus
no
tree
no there
no chattel
no there
What Say
see this say this
this say here
that say there
wait
this say can
say
this
say can wait
have it out
say
it out
you see this say
you out
this say
out out this
say
not yet
wait
yet this wait
is
when I say this
say
this
this
this wait
can this wait?
on this
the
say is on
what say is this
what
said to say
this saying, said
and what said
saying
this way to say
this saying,
so said
so
say
this way of saying
this wait can say
this wait can make
new saying
said this wait
saying what
this
saying what can
be said
on
this
to this
of this
for this
all
this about
all this for
all this to
all this on
saying about
saying
this saying
can be said
to say
this
—Jeff Bagato
