Thursday, June 1, 2017

Mark Young - Eleven poems #5

Mark Young lives in a small town in North Queensland in Australia, & has been publishing poetry for almost sixty years. He is the author of over forty books, primarily text poetry but also including speculative fiction, vispo, & art history. His work has been widely anthologized, & his essays & poetry translated into a number of languages. His most recent books are Ley Lines & bricolage, both from gradient books of Finland, The Chorus of the Sphinxes, from Moria Books in Chicago, & some more strange meteorites, from Meritage & i.e. Press, California / New York.

He is the editor of Otoliths.


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1. family, friends

     The subset of malicious
            nodes found amongst
            snapshots of dogs in
        the midst of a flooding

        river is the only variety of
            denial-of-service attacks
            that kicks off with a dub
        take from the man himself.

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2. protecting the sugar crop

      When hot sell
                 leather lingerie
   designed for the
              fast restoration of
                       dull knives 
            
          can visually expand
                to fill a small
                       room or a
                narrow space,

                             what's a Wii
                   fanboy without
            a Wii to call his
        own to do?

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3. leaving the building

Elvis
Presley

e-
ventually re-
e-
merged to re-

place the
aspirin

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4. "Go find the enemy!"

There are a lot of correct
predictions here. Classic
rhomboid patterns appear
& any benefits that may
be payable upon your
death outside of Denmark
are subject to a barrage
of name & member changes.

Substitute fossil fuel con-
sumption for the newts,
but note that ATTACK
TRIGGER droite 9 vit ar
compatible SHIMANO is not
intended as a final solution.

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5. Rostov-on-Don

un-
modulated &
matured in caves

the cilia machine
code, define
inflation

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6. A forgotten proverb

A dance is never
as good as a
bath with a goat.


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7. great discoveries of the 21st Century

color
escapes
thru
holes
in the
hair


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8. a / blazing hot / day in Gaza

Ponder the metaphysics
of it & you'll never hurt
rock 'n' roll again. A lone

figure is lit up in the middle
of a clearing but the space is
empty. It's a nifty illusion

created by a laser, a beam
splitter, an investment bank,
& some Sumerian slot machines.


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9. random salamanders

Our brunch is unbeatable
when mixed with a hyper-
light-speed antenna, be-
comes a major conduit to
boost your public profile
despite a ban on all electronic
devices bigger than an avocado.
Ethylene gas would make the
Empire State Building ripen
faster, but my kids don't
want that. At least, not yet.


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10. You are here: All Titles ›

The energy market—which
died 11 Feb 1982 in Bovenau,
Germany—is difficult to read
& hasn't shared anything
on this page with you.


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11. A picture of food rich in protein

Colonoscopy is contra-indicated

as are black pumpkin uniforms
from '09 & two new species of

bottom-dwelling "walking" fish.