27 April 2023

Four Poems by Mark Young

Inside/Outside: There’s No Upside

There’s really no upside for anybody…

Steven Soderbergh responding to rumors of a rift

on the set of Magic Mike’s Last Dance.

 

We shot this in zero gravity, in an

actual plane, in the sky. No turbulence

or sea spray, but stress levels were high

 

& the discharge of faecal solids must be

considered an inescapable outcome.

So, a warning. If you try to replicate

 

our actions & have an indwelling

catheter, always check that there

are no kinks in the drainage bag.

 

 

A second night under curfew

 

Police in the US state of Missouri

are protecting her ahead of her

upcoming New Zealand perform-

ance where she is set to earn

millions from her app. Based on

the premise that muskets are not

very reliable, nor are old maps of

New York with their modern

 

accumulations of cellular lipid &

subcontract squandering, it seems

her space camera is the only option

to regulate a sugar metabolism that

would otherwise lead to depression

&/or the decline of small business.

 

 

A line from Kurt Cobain

 

In this trope, in the face of

multi-player mind games, no-

body likes being asked to wait,

especially when it's an old enemy

 

who's making the request. Maybe

I oversimplify; but it seems those

social circles that are composed

of numerous young men — who hate

 

everyone that occasionally eats

meat — will never outgrow intro-

version. Which is why self-check-

out lines inevitably get clogged.

 

 

A Chord — G Major

 

 

G entry

 

genotype

 

Gilgamesh

 

garrotte

 

gunmetal

 

grandiloquent

 

gnome

 

atrium

 

 

B onus

 

broccolini

 

badinage

 

blindspot

 

bandicoot

 

Bratislava

 

breakfast

 

xenophobia

 

 

 

D tale

 

dermatitis

 

dainty

 

disproportionate

 

dressage

 

demesne or demeanor

 

daguerreotype

 

Mandelbrot