23.11.22

Four Poems by Mark Young

Observations

 

#1

 

There is half a moon in the sky this afternoon as I take the washing off the line. I think it has something to do with the rampant inflation that coats the current world, how once you could afford a full moon, now the same amount of money only buys you half.

 

 

#2

 

I am reminded of that Magritte painting, Le Seize Septembre, as the moon makes its way upwards behind the large tree that stands between us. In the Magritte, it is a new moon rising in front of the tree; here the moon is almost full, & the tree has regained its normal place in front of it.

 

 

#3

 

There is a total eclipse about to begin. I am sitting on a chair on the back deck. Between me & the moon is not only that tree but, in the time it's taken for the moon to clear the topmost branches, around 3000 fruit bats have passed by, off on their nocturnal foraging.

 

 

#4

 

Dead birds punctuate the highway. The moon is nowhere to be seen.

 

 

geographies: Raptor Alley

 

A new Prodigy reverb is available

now. Proceed with caution, even

 

though the graffiti is attractive on

this one, as is the front & back em-

 

broidery with its delightful red

contrast stitching. Anthropologists

 

& historians clash over the diet &

friendship goals that need to be em-

 

bedded; but both share concerns at

the paucity of its graphics memory.

 

 

The threaded approach

 

Bottled anatomical specimens do not

share address spaces with hackable

notification daemons accused of

fondling & propositioning male

undercover police officers. Rather

 

they are classified under dental &

veterinary apparatus & instruments,

& designed for lightweight MS Windows

managers to help detect dreadlocks if

their arousal is slower than it used to be.

 

 

Letraset

 

aircraft

budget

carrier

deficit

 

electrical

french

grid

horn

 

instant

john

karma

lennon

 

mouth

no

organ

parking

 

quality

race

survey

track

 

under

violent

water

xenophobe

 

yodeling

zygote