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bureau of drinking up your milkshake

Michael Seward

bureau of drinking up your milkshake it’s weird being such a chemical burn of a conduit for mountain men wishing to be seals for sorani but my name is saxon for mustard gas stained dolls close the valve like blood not like milk like jungle juice in a plastic cup on top of a speaker concentric like amplifier halo sopping styxian familiar hallowed and moaning and being every pedestrian at once improbable containers modular synthesis fluid models where the walls have eyes teardrops can talk so they don’t fear of becoming venom becoming river becoming anything to put a straw in becoming daniel day lewis becoming clark becoming the scajaquada express bureau of drinking up your milkshake resonant sonoran cacti poison well holdings limited resonant ponytail palm trees becoming erbil international airport twelve dialects of shutting the valve completely beyond the sax is only kitchen spanish yo la tengo on a very small bluetooth speaker the dominican word for drowning room in my appendages for more liquid loosen the jaw viscosity clause happily under the surface take my breath away as I’m becoming bunsen

Work from Hybrid Poetry with Chia-Lun Chang

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