Noise Over the Network

1.

without logic or intensity
mountain stature
draped
as if the world could end this way
in the boudoir
dogs bark fantasies

"they were huge, enormous, and they multiplied"

after the party, red cocktails
pure in the beginning
spit on the ashes
escape to yet another
this is the guest room
(Memory will help you, if you let it
no particulars
no individuals, nor details,
just what the Race knows and remembers)
same thing, same as your Network, same as your
calm down, she said, relax
it was all just... skin

2.

Headlines: MAN ON WHITE HORSE RIDES OFF TO CHINESE
RESTAURANT SULLEN AFICIONADOS LOSE ZEST FOR
HEROESMAJORITY IS UNDECIDED...they literally can't decide.

treadmill in the living room his daughter nineteen bodkins of
faith carve bland tattoos a shame to invest in your destruction sit
down a while and breathe

alone in the kitchen orders Thai food tips the Thai guy stares at
the screen awaiting signs: when will the Terrorists return his
daughter? When will she resume her duties at the Walmart, free
to roam the super-store in peace?

dead writer haunts the shelvesoperators nude over the Network

3.

fine lace curtains
noise over the Network summons me
to space
the old girl and her bottles
remote control

"You used to be so young!"

high school beauty Vaseline perched on her peak
ready for thrills
mortal, but invincible
outside of Time, yet chronically fatigued
symbolic of nothing, devoted to less
cereal box says it all leads to a balanced life
heaven a block away I used to think ­ no, no
this is the last call...barely stand...my keys
can I get change for this?

Refrigerator Notes in the imperative not Headlines:
1. eat food 2. return package