Poems
by Mark Young
cantankerous okapi
Does gene duplication provide a
Not necessarily a woman saying
new proxy for future baking or
this; but there is a shroud of fem-
will short-sellers still claim that
inine mystique enveloping the
election fraud has prevented them
special-edition leather bag with
from joining the clubby community
its white hard hat & a mill that is
that others derisively call a cabal?
still in really good running order.
Target
Temporal distortion. The breadth
of it. One side so far away
it cannot be seen, at least
not until some time has passed.
& even then, the numbers blur
as they are counted down.
*
Temporary distraction. The breaths
of it. Undecided cypher, a way
to cancel out the scene, to lease
the space under some half passage
& eventually, as numbness slurs
the speech’s cadences, die out.
after R. Crais #1: Chasing Darkness
A news crew was set up on
the porch. She clipped out
the article, then took an abrupt
right turn. She had blood on
her fingers. Came from finding
her own evidence. A faint buzz
cut through the strip mall
parking lot. A uniformed officer
was seated in the security
station. The furniture was new.
after R. Crais #2: The Promise
A phone buzzed. The table
was spread with papers. Jets
descended. The lights didn’t
come on. One way or another
the water was misleading.
There was a gang fight. Floor
to ceiling glass doors could
be found by back-tracking a
trail of nightmares. I parked
around the corner. No one
followed me down the hall.
Around election time
The multiregional
hypothesis is an
alternative scientific
model whose car
has been towed
for illegal parking.
dissolved in white spirit
To a certain extent,
hegemonic constructs
are the product of an
authoritative ugg
boots online outlet store.
But taxonomic divisions
are human constructs. The
boots progress in linear
fashion. Their fossilized
form is gray-brown.
Creating a community events board
Backgammon is a
completely ergodic
game which is why
mice do not play it.
They prefer to teach
risk management &
brinksmanship to the
renters in the building.
The Friendly Witness
Last month, at the
Harmony Palace
restaurant, banquet
politics was ditched
in favor of com-
promise. With history
constantly zigzagging
around, the single
track has become a
bottleneck, & linear
teleology dropped
in favor of a tribal
circling which appears
to completely contradict
our ideas of a usable
piece of furniture. I am
broke as hell. I take
the witness stand for
a second day. Someone
is manipulating me
using mind magic.
