26 May 2022

Four Poems by Mark Young

periods of hypoglycemia

 

In a truly conservative

approach, sunken cobble-

stones, with dirt thrown

 

or grass grown over them,

provide form & function.

The brain releases dopa-

 

mine; sugar alters the chem-

istry. Swahili agents move

inland in search of slaves.

 

 

Ecumenical

 

Before we go back to that crucial road trip, as Umberto Eco wrote, where society is shaped & served by machines, the superhero must embody the Standard Model, that theory explaining how the universe is built, & how its existence in the last minute of the national interest is the hardest millennia-old question to be wrestled with.

 

Right now it's all settling, & he's starting to feel dark matter that intellectual property laws & income streams can’t detect, but it's important to note that the history of vibrations against one's temples ascribes all such sensations to those ancient Greeks who earned a living by producing music, movies, pharmaceuticals, fashion goods, & other popular products.

 

 

Enterprises of subversion & destruction

 

The polished surface throws

back the arrow. Beneath it, 

handwritten in a painstaking

artificial script, a script from

the convent, is "an American

 

may possibly know the customs

of your country better than you

do." Visible form is excavated.

Shape dissipates. About this

ambiguity I am ambiguous.

 

To reproduce & to articulate; to

imitate & to signify; to look &

to read. What misleads us is the

inevitable futility of converting

the text to some glaring color

 

when a simple swipe of a rag

could soon erase it & reduce

phoneticism to mere gray noise or

inconspicuous article. Treasure

the pearls of what you have read.

 

 

Sources:

This Is Not a Pipe, by Michel Foucault

The Ladies' Book of Etiquette (1860), by Florence Hartley

 

 

High flow drainage crossings

 

Umbrellas lined the delay

in work commitments on

her Facebook page. Cited

as a possible reason was the

discovery of four pigs that

had been slaughtered in

bizarre circumstances. Flam-

boyant headpieces will now

be the order of the day says

the Climate Council's Tonto

thru to the Lone Ranger report.