7.3.22

Four Poems by Mark Young

These news pics persist

 

Elsewhere there is video

footage of the stretcher

bearers pausing so the

Secretary of Homeland

 

Security can draw back

the covers & identify

which parts of the visual

culture in the San Fran-

 

cisco Bay Area still have

some life in them & might,

therefore, constitute a

homegrown terrorist threat.

 

 

from / the looks / of the handle

 

A patient is skiing deep

powder. It actually slows her

down, just as coming off caffeine

reduces her cognitive skills, has a

negative impact on her mood.

 

There are four items in this

set. Replacements are not

allowed, nor can the same

item be chosen more than

once. Order does matter.

 

 

Two Poems from 100 Titles from Tom Beckett

 

#5: Loud Oysters

 

Despite a bicycle-themed

all-levels yoga class, & a

screamer of a training session

in which sounds were directly

transmitted in the substrate,

the hardest part of shucking is

planktonic. "No, not Platonic,"

as Socrates used to say. "I'm

 

still the chicken schnitzel a-

round here, recognized as such

by more than 30 Central Ohio

breweries, from the MK6 model

onwards." Which, as others like

to point out, is more evidence

of the human perceptional bias

in favor of air-borne sounds.

 

 

#85: Scanning Barcodes


starts a new life of piety & righteousness

can put a child in serious danger of injury or unnecessary medical care

sometimes makes an individual decide to perpetrate a sexual crime on another person

makes some people say they feel exhausted & sad after doing it

makes other people turn to pornography to self soothe their anxiety or depression

is generally associated in the Western world with Right-wing populism

can cause your body to release a number of hormones

may cause inflammation of the pancreas

is a pejorative label used to discriminate against "new religious movements"

helps dogs to develop patience

causes your tyres to wear down more quickly

kills more than 480,000 people in the U.S. each year

will not lead to blindness