poetry

previous
next

GLORIA FRYM

ONE FROM THE OTHER

Let’s not concatenate. His electability is most important
Certainly you heard about the judge and a driver,and a radio so amped up the
street shook,birds flew backwards,verticality became jealous of horizontality
I only know of threshold conditions between a street and a horizon
The judge made the driver listen to an entire opera without falling asleep
Buffa?
Seria
How easily the bird slips from the perch,yielding as if in agreement
You were wanting a speech
She was a famous paradise,that’s all she was
So the potion moves motion along and no word left behind
The yellow curtain there lies a piece of glass
It seems the past tense is too dressed up
The truth an idea?
Would you like a Cesarean,say fifteen years into a long arduous hackneyed
plot?
It’s important to always blame Mother
Those who start early rehearse for the future,those suturous pre-nups
This whole conversation is too psychological,I am not William James
I’ll call you Henry and you can be my
If she’s a boy,we’ll name her God Almighty
Have you ever in the lightness imagined light?
A shadow effect of furniture one moves around a room
So here’s a stick and some jerky go and when you’re perked up
bring home the vote
The kind you secretly miss
Your handlers are a crew of yes
Inches in front of you

EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION

I drop into the mountains of Albania
I need a few lifts and tucks
I hear about some secret cosmetic prison
I have to duck and cover
Time denies my exoneration
Condescenda arrives in straight hair
Some chemical imbalance if you ask
Anyone. When she speaks
Clients diagram her sentences
What nice origami we’re having today
I speak on condition of anonymity
You can’t eat peas with a line,my dear
Oh Lady,I hear you keep thought from thought
What’s with the stiletto adverbials?

ELEPHANT-DONKEY CLONED IN CALIFORNIA

what’s the deal broken heel Diane?
still walk with two legs
talk in one shoe unpartied?
lap dog baked lite no bite
no plan no man no woman
save Ms.Lee & The Boxer
get out your wreckards,Arnold
idea erases void vector
filling no thought
with horizon & tech honey
a cup of ancient Greek whine
a god made me do it
indefinite referent excuse
faceless road kill called people
some rosy fingers some yawn
some CEOs dangling our very own
Charlie McCarthy off the Euphrates
they got string
they got bungee cord
do he flotacious?
you recall we promised we’d all
meet after an earthquake
mom’s landmine cafe
our last decent meal