29 May 2024

Four Poems by Mark Young

A line from David Byrne

 

The gauge is altered — we didn't

cast on enough stitches. But then

it's not essential to make a huge

impact on the world's environment

 

to present a fundamental threat to

human health. When blood flows

backwards, absorbs red light, re-

flects infrared, it sets off a set of

 

catalytic converters by changing

their trains to allow the release

of pollutants through chemical re-

actions. Exhaustion must follow.

 

 

salad dweller

 

When it comes to debt ac-

cumulation, the young

lotus leaf, a new release

of the original 1913 edit-

ion, is ideal for industry

professionals & insurance

lawyers. It has served as

personal physician to Duke

 

Albert I of Saxony, & has a

single metal wheel mounted

on painted wood. Nearby, we

also have today a number

of helpful YouTube videos

crafted from my best recipes.

 

 

Seismic Intervention

 

Can't get enough physical phe-

nomena involving catastrophes

or Laplace equations in two &

three dimensions to fill a bath

 

for charity? The French Institute

of Health & Medical Research

suggests that the visco-elastic

properties of certain polymers

 

kept perpendicular to the neces-

sary inbetweens in an ivory box

with an embossed tone-on-tone

floral pattern will cause a heat-

 

wave in Gujarat; & as an embel-

lishment, using an Ariana Grande

download would be like spread-

ing peanut butter on top of jelly.

 

 

Meanwhile, at the Kunstmuseum

 

A freight train goes by as I am

listening to Bach's Air on the

G String. It howls in the night.

Pizzicato cellos follow it through

at a walking pace. All vision im-

pairment stems from a simple

cause which has nothing to do

with the eyes. & then I'm in

Lithuania, in Vilnus, & an a

cappella choir tracks the same path

as the freight train. Home security

companies don't want you to find

out about this new device that is

cheaper, simpler, created by two

engineers from Australia, by which

time, in a baroque hall, a seated

string group line up behind some

very popular cellist & it's last year

in Marienbad, where a several hun-

dred voice male Mormon choir

tells me it's nearer my god to thee

which means we're heading back

to a basilica in Milan where Booker

T is dining out on a mix of green

onions & listening to some serious

players & I'm replaying all the

poems I've written over the years

that have Bach as counterpoint.