Manhattan from Jackson Heights, 1938

received these lovely books from
Insurance Editions
35-48 80th Street #52
Jackson Heights, NY 11372
USA


from "Knowledge Follows" by David Perry

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The baslilisk tracks led to the Department of Anthropology
The professor's mouth formed a stone O
He stood in treated grass, the flute effects of afternoon wind
piched angle and forced right
so beautifully unlike life

He's still alive inside
soft and hot in the sun



from "Reticular Pop-Ups" by Carol Szamatowicz

Diary of Dr. Malmude

Any second now the pelts will fall off the rack,
the serpent soap its bedroll.
I dare not part from my assigned parts--
frequentor of solitide,
devil-may-care sister-mommy,
slice of light in a barque for two.
You're a real bright warm-up,
dashing through your smoke,
lights on your heels.
I dream a cold snap in the tropics,
sun slant uncertain, clock fucked
though we seem to be on time.
I scribble in the hay,
loll around in a bed of potulaca.
Got my thermos to keep me warm.
We stick to vegetable medicine,
never read the news,
ripen open the window,
vote the old city ticket
from nineteeen ought something.
All our shocks are furrowed,
above the psychic mechanisms of trash,
the economy of the few, far too few
have saved their eggs for us.



from "Daydream" by Kostas Anagnopulos

The sky employs many today
People benefit from it
They'd rather horse around
In the new addition
Too hyper for me
There's a kink in the system
They lock the loaf in the freezer
No further instructions
They mourn the day
Ultimately, they take a nap
For the better part of it
Oxygen is delivered
Cars peter out
Ramps are shut down
We need a speaker system
Minus the thunder
The sky is spoken for
The yellow-bellied sapsucker
Sings for its supper