30. glass eye of the tiger

"...when they did a symphony of Beethoven...it would take four 78 records, but there would be one side that would be empty, but the company didn't want to put an empty side, so they would put on maybe a Rossini overture...and for years I thought the Fifth Symphony of Beethoven ended up with The William Tell Overture." --Philip Glass, qtd in: Your Song Changed My Life

Bloscrois yotir.

come be · my Shih Tzu
you won't need · jujitsu
like a raisin in the sun
i'm Radiosonde

Colombo · is baffled
the roboDobermans · are snaffled
like a raisin in the fire
i'm Belphegor

a labyrinth
familiarized
red, black, turquoise
in alternation
trail of birdseed
not missed by the birds

a smidge of coconut
a clue
the language of Thomas & Auden
in the voice of others
saying what
has this century become
their ruins
not ours · elapsed
odes pale · tourists
in the new explanation

one million fixes later
a rubble of shadows

things i never learned the shape of

"...If a person is killed while under hypnosis, will the ghost be hypnotized?"