A Third
Fate banned opposition
accounted human
resignation famine
hesitated losses
tragedy parking lot fortune
an indeed appointment to
railroad obscurity
figured rabid
talkative feted boom
association prickly conduction
ambidextrous ironic
plight lackluster
serial complexity industrial
pit stomach
diplomatic user
preventative causing in
bureaucracy courts
indignation pipes
views
generalist competence
cited
domino geologist period
featured salacious
incognito flame
network calling card
fortune teller average
profile breaking pinch
discontinuity memoir
no actual pepper
pillage offer of little capacity
corpse of desolation
an impeachment
sweeping plunder
boom prince racked
confused epilogue
tracking hangover
recognized credit
tangle handguns
nestling ink
and social scale
quill gravely half-timbered
downriver twenty minutes
worth ermine trace spires
feathery measured stovepipe
goatee hatred golden chain reaction
cross,pit,currant,earlier,
haberdasher,docks,notaries,
penny,euphemism,clutch,
voyages,gums,unilateral
baffled,isolated,profits,flames
globe suffers navigational cargo
fraught astrolabe raids enthusiasm
viable endeavors plant icebergs
bone-jarring celebrity dully exact
shipmate grotesque jumping deck
reach back
looted event
Ongoing perpetuated concrete battlegrounds
Tape MACHINE wings
ballet elementary
denial
>>> sessions
, contents
, rescinded
creditors influence
an influx of
constructivist
disCOURSES<<<
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AS A
matter of
fluently
theoretical vigor
CrashinG
& revising
likewise
eradication
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Deep proactive
assumptions
caught
glued to
the portrait
of the embedded
sculptures
.
.
.
Oriented surface
napping ON
TOUR
to floor
an invisibility collective
collaborating
dissonant
shingles assembled
fluorescent
clusters
permeating
END
notes
, zeroed
out ,
left to flounder
in
unstoppable
elsewhere
a medium
simplistic
preexisting
generational
habit
ineffective
, day
dreaming
,
associated
detailed
medium
cool dalliance
,
variable ,
artless ,
struggling
to possess
a
curated
reserve.
Still fluid notion
Rude keeps guessing thumb imprint
suddenly spared sword allowances
no bazaar turning flair gold record
formerly airport research material.
Activation cosmopolitan funnel
gliding voracious quartet
expanded self-regard amended
start vandalism
a piece whining
recorded barrel
ball of defection
scaling palace.
Splendid
telescopic fountain
: ToMb ToWeR , unlikely
diverting Rome,Istanbul,
Cairo,selfhood.
Groaning overgrown
might reoccupied
thousand-pillared mosque
shapeless shrine pilfered
eccentric heaps of
figurines contradict
wrecked courtly litter.
“What they saw has gone native.”
“Very few words report friction.”
“Distant assistants four later editions.”
Invisible or living
Weekly incidence welded to caution
: manure feigned membership :
acute collarbone identity
,cosmic instigation,
an overreaction.
Critiques
THUS = however futile
separated caricature,
verbose cartons of
ridicule.
Feral outlook
judges syntax.
[humane dystopian
madness (horizon)
,supper club
destined
film still ,
turmoil of
effective
drives].
Maxims aren’t full-contact programs.
Atmospheric nihilism [collage
one another ,
subjected to
membership
dues & don’ts].
Underground segments
critical hysteria
hostile
center=
stage.
Cacophonously burping
,mainstream contribution,
hack,heck,hack,heck,hack.
Geriatric sponge
kicking backside /
slide discourse
features excerpts /
satire renews an activation /
themed civil wars /
public replicated self-definitions.
Unconscious ethos broader guilt
: exacting imaginary citizens :
“Knotted ties apply
triumphant lust to
outstretch physiques.”
Musical rather than coherent.
[ideas campaigns
first person
, judges harsh flasks]
Impaling begins.
Joshua Martin is a Philadelphia based writer and filmmaker, who currently works in a library. He is a member of C22, an experimental writing collective. He is the author most recently of the books punctuated avalanche (Stone Corpse Press) and en=raptur=ed [riverrun] & mingle (Ranger Press) He has had numerous pieces published in various journals. You can find links to his published work at joshuamartinwriting.blogspot.com