Salmon Crisp (working notes from November, 2004)

Sunday, Nov 7

describe as
maybe he just doesn’t hear the mistakes
achieve Godard
suppressed ensemble quintet
contain salmon in ice
discarded salmon skulls
truth is in the rupture

**

fluorescent salmon display

fake beheading video aired on Arab TV and Fox news

Piano Snow Bird (Happy)

door people enter subliminal wound

Monday, Nov 8

tangerine criminals
fabric split in two folds
stabbing wound encased in scissors
audience screams into garbage

found poem: sorry everybody
odd, not sure what’s up
the link went to a site where
people are posting picture of themselves
with hand written apologies
to the world

father slits my throat in sleep
father indulges her Japanese in dialogue

father dilutes her skin with salmon
father lures us with salmon

tennis racket in a triangle

found poem: I’m disappointed in your thesis
but I want to buy some of your drawings

father lures actress with salmon

father startles actress with salmon


Tuesday, Nov 9

commitment to fabric
prepares fabric in salmon

every third woman is a plagiarist of the first
and this first is a copy

modern girl prepares her youth as a plagiarist
insisting complicated apricot is recognizable
complicate apricot
essentials maintain
sketch discourse texture
detailing clothes

father prepares fabric in salmon
father insisting apricot is a knot

quickly places much
uninhabitable surface rejection

prevents volume, insert

habitable

**

v: one

father acquires fabric in salmon

found poem: I’m disappointed in your thesis
but I want to buy some of your drawings

she gave him her screams for two years

maybe he just doesn’t
hear the mistakes

fabric split in two folds

salmon crisp in scissors loop with intoxicating static
aisles emerge as a weave, he embraces

actress prone to aquarium


Wednesday, Nov 10

proposition with curves enables a fatalistic entrance
extract salmon from actress
disruptive
as occupant
door people nudge a new entrance
Japanese interiors as disruptive occupant

**

anticipate in glue, including swimmers

the two skinniest girls in seventh grade
Elvis with wound in his ear

**

as before, he will anticipate in glue
clinging to the skinniest actress in corpse rehearsal

as before, he will anticipate door people in glue

trampoline glue , adhesive infection

as before, he will anticipate in corpse rehearsal


**

Thursday, Nov 11

everywhere in weather tendency
establishes collapse because
acoustic reinvention
cleavage interview

fashion consumers

aisles emerge as a weave, he embraces actress prone to aquarium

dad, don’t fall asleep, you have to shave my ass


Friday, Nov 12

puzzle pop photography
since camera
constantly haunts design
separate the shirts from the skulls
fashion consumers acquire
with floor

city explains fabric

we’re cutting fabric on the floor

the collection was really about a girl
in her teens who has an unhealthy interest
with murder

fashion consumers acquire fabric with floor

Myra Hindly, English murderer from the 1960s

** **

we’re cutting fabric on the floor

separate the shirts from the interest with floor

separate the shirts from the interest with murder


Saturday, Nov 13

surprise us with new circles
salmon infects actress
coffee asylum produces late emission
permanent magazine response

**

actress predominantly corpse rehearsal

Found Poem: George Jones
When the airlines banned smoking,
I went to private Lear jet

Found Poem: Siouxsie
I hate Mondays because Mondays mean, I can’t sleep
as much as I can on Sundays.
I love to sleep.

Found Poem: Chloe
I hate when people drag their feet.
Walk with a purpose.

Found Poem: Dogs Die In Hot Cars
Please describe yourself

Found Poem: Randy Macho Man Savage
Really hungry, overweight woman in prison lie on their backs
and touch themselves thinking about me.

Found Poem: Cunt Knife by Jane Gang

**

amputated twins, we meet with laces


Sunday, Nov 14

November owl style
elevator bath
and girls inebriate for spazz sweaters
shopping cart

girls inebriate in elevator bath

get it tattooed on your lips
then said accident

elevator bath tattooed on your lips

“If I lose my voice, Nigga, I’ma flow online”

Jadakiss


**

Found Poem: Pockets Dumb Fat

I said I like yo shit & u used 2 fuck with my nigga JT tha Bigga Figga? He said yeah & I said u know me & C-Bo got problems with 50 Cent. He said, That’s y’all business, I’m not in that, I’m just signed 2 tha nigga 2 make some money. I said, I respect that, get cha paper on! Then he said, what’s up with Bang Em Smurf & Domination dissin him? I said, I haven’t heard it yet & keep it that way. I shook his hand again & told him, do ya thang cuzz we need 2 bring the west back.


**

Monday, Nov 15

elevator bath tattooed on your lips

elaborate verbal beverage with an ambulance attempt

this pimp named Roman hated women but had a huge respect for drag queens

two years later his nose began to collapse

aerial skins

fabric stabbing

elaborate verbal beverage with an amputee


Wednesday, Nov 17

Found Poem: Contestants dine on horse rectum

crayon shinchan

fold shirt in paper
fold shirt in pencil

fold paper shirt in pencil

**

hospital menu in fifteen minutes
seizure, my father when she laughs

she’s my throat friend

apartment skin receive creases in hospital

apartment skin receives my father when she laughs

**

hospital menu in fifteen minutes

corpse rehearsal
skin receives my father when she laughs

apartment creases in paper

corpse rehearsal receives my father when he laughs


hospital crease in paper

**

hospital menu in fifteen minutes

corpse rehearsal receives my father when he laughs

**

hospital complexion in fifteen minutes

**

elevator bath tattooed on your lips
elaborate verbal beverage with an ambulance attempt
hospital complexion in fifteen minutes
two years later your nose began to collapse

corpse rehearsal receives my father when he laughs

dad, don’t fall asleep, you have to shave my ass



**

Thursday, Nov 18

water fills with discarded sweaters
dermatologist with tattoo

lips attempt minutes


Friday, Nov 19

submit air gauze
conceive thought in glass equivalent as lamp
appearance as evidence equivalent as lamp
dissolve in lamp
fabric lamp
spectator dissolves in lamp
pencil fashion demand in dub
compare
refer the wound to lamp
refer the wound to scissors

**

pencil salmon to scissors

father alienates in lamp

**

That Girl / “That Woman”

Marlow Thomas / Monica Lewinsky

Bill Clinton confesses on television

intended intimacy

**


“That Woman”

Bill Clinton confesses on television

intended intimacy


**

implies

**

You can be a Museum
or you can be Modern
but you can’t be both.
Gertrude Stein

**

injured jazz musicians
instability disposable

**

existential pursuit of discomfort
Brendan McGetrick, Editor’s letter Content

**

proposal: crushed concrete

actress determined by salmon


Saturday, Nov 20

skin map: acupuncture
music is a hungry ghost
repetitive funk bottles
someone abstains from hair
new shirt gymnastics with apache breaks

father abstains from hair in corpse rehearsal


**

how many do you think you can get?

father abstains from hair, how many
do you think you can get?

you want to play,

don’t ya



Sunday, Nov 21

discuss / discusses / stagnant traces
sound mementos
confuse fifteen press archives

My Neck is Thinner than a Hair

stagnant victim traces

car bombings, attempt stencils

tofu ramen in egg-drop soup

he didn’t even give me arms


Wednesday, Nov 24

actress occurs in conversation: Hidari Sachiko
actress achieves in dialogue
endure camera politics

contestants endure questionable rabbit

Insect Woman, 1963 occurs in actress

**

Insect Woman, 1963
actress occurs in conversation

aisles absorb film

Japanese tragedies as consumerism

His subjects, he repeated, were the lower
part of the human body and the
lower part of the social structure: sex
and the underclass

contestant disappears


Thursday, Nov 25

influential in
prevents


Friday, Nov 26

lawn illuminates with reindeers and candy canes
conventional coffee
realize in bicycle
pedestrian realize in bicycle
actress realizes in camera
the discomfort of closeness
actress ruminate in camera

explain familiar distance after attempt
distance after

reindeers and candy canes illuminate the lawn

**

skin map: acupuncture
the discomfort of closeness

father abstains from skin, how many
do you think you can get?

folded shirts emerge in pencil


**

new shirt gymnastics with apache breaks
music is a hungry ghost


Saturday, Nov 27

club manages press, conversation booth
guitars deliberate

DJ Rekha: Basement Bhangra

pull Bjork jacket with dance floor
basement conversation booth with dance floor

Passa Passa # 5

footage of skirt people

scraps of intimate conversation

save narrative materials
finishing afternoon coffee
peculiar float
access roads
dogs nipping at their heels

**

footage of skirt people posing for dance

lilacs nipping at their heels

**

cage nipping at their heads

cage nipping thoughts
every February

**

Helen poses as a vamp

shirt people fold in complicated halves

lilacs nip at their sleeves


**

describe as
maybe he just doesn’t hear the mistakes

achieve salmon skulls in ice

**

father indulges Chinese apricot


Sunday, Nov 28

draw nude female aliens with thump nipples

he didn’t know
weasel

Divisidero, San Francisco

**

Elevator Bath Indulges Father in Salmon

**

(version one)

elevator bath tattooed on his lips
elaborate verbal beverage with an ambulance attempt

Father acquires fabric in salmon

Found Poem: I’m disappointed in your thesis
but I want to buy some of your drawings

hospital complexion in fifteen minutes
two years later his nose began to collapse

corpse rehearsal receives my Father when he laughs
lilacs nipping at his feet

she gave him her screams for two years

**

salmon crisp in scissors loop with intoxicating static
emerge as a weave, he embraces actress prone to aquarium

Dad, don’t fall asleep, you have to shave her ass

**


Monday, Nov 29

shoe definition
comfortable
with
a reasonable length

she’s comfortable with a reasonable length


Tuesday, Nov 30

instead of
spray paint cage graffiti for someone
juice behind a sponsor

beverage behind a sponsor
beverage behind a popular sponsor

understand the trains
suicide surface
often

**

aerosol

bomb beverage behind a sponsor

understand the trains
tag often

& jump


“They charge writers with break and enter if they are found on a roof, even though they
know full well the writer is there just to paint.”

hospital costume

bleeding chicken head necklace with matching chicken foot earring

hospital punch


11/7 thru 11/30/04

Ray Craig

Found Poem: DrEAmiN' iN ReAliTY

hi! i'm aeralle ! today, i'd a netball match...n we LOST ;( ! 7 : 3 . So Sad ~~~ o_0 veri sad !*sniff sniff* the 1st match we LOST ! *waaaah.......

** TISSUE PAPER ! **

^_^ never mind ! mus work HARDER !

When I count to 3, your hands will become a girl

Donna arrives with a new employee. This poster has 2 crease lines from being folded. Succulence implicit in the climate, beverage stain crops the stadium map. The inevitability of loss includes the medium of cinema itself. Swimmers remove their goggles, vertebrae algae. My personality is suited for weather. Klee in the morning with instructions. Pina Bausch: proximity of fractures with precision. 2 pillows please, foliage preserves the entrance. It is hard to imagine a movie in which buildings do not appear. Chinese jazz from the 1930s is an easy excuse. When I count to 3, your hands will become a girl



Ray Craig

Inquiry into Loss

Crouched silhouettes emerge as an effective accordion brochure. Musicians respond to her blouse. Halves exploit the accessible fold to a green napkin. Basil cleansed in cold water exudes the evidence: a quick promise. Three aisles average to film, regardless of posture. “We waited an hour and I said: fuck, let’s go! She starts kneeling at 6” Clients prefer lamp to evoke the interior. Furniture conducive to thought, essentially requires a tangible response. Sand is an accurate complexion of loss. Sequential intervals attract train fares calibrated by kilometers. Envelope as a permanent description. Cindy Sherman embellished in anonymity reinforces the visual evidence. Complexion extracted from sand remains preferable. Mushroom with an apricot fragrance. Gradual emptiness with precision. Film brochure with push-pins. Tourist with monk realizes the souvenir. Ming-Na Wen appear immediate in clothes. Children arrive in Chinese speaking their favorite dialects. Musicians substitute their shoulders in her blouse. Aquarium appropriates the luminous complexion. Enthusiasts cling to accessories. Napkin is a familiar entrance, an inseparable fold. Calf roping is an immediate color with abrupt measurements. The distance between Bach and Joan Tower is 300 years. Sometimes, the room is only 46 minutes. Acrobats change the size of their bodies when they rotate. Furniture, ambiguously nude. Sometimes, the dialect is Chinese money. Sundanese musicians immerse themselves in sadness as they perform anonymous compositions with rhythmic accuracy. Flute with 2 voices: a man and a woman cling to damp leaves. Monks are easily entertained with the promise of absence. Pablo’s latest release in only available in vinyl. My father explained to us in absence. Clothes photographed in warm weather. Twins born three months apart. Aisles diminish to film. Musicians continue to attempt her blouse. Pavement measured in leaves insinuate loss. Green napkins carefully folded in small splendors. Blouse with foliage provides her response. Pedestrians contain in either directions, napkins tinge to a popular fold. Leaves spent on monk, aisles accumulate to film. Cold noodles with sesame sauce. Eleanor pauses at the library door. Cindy Sherman impersonates femininity punctured by loss. Fold is essentially an alignment. Plate opens with Pablo immersed in dub. Incision clarifies the wound.


Ray Craig

paste narrow aisles on film

paste narrow aisles on film
and someone says: photographs

rain dress in horses


April, 2004

Ray Craig

cash subway posters to fascinate else’s porn

project: drain salmon skulls

amputee as potential nude torso

amputee as potential nude torso

rabbit with rifle falls victim to his own erection


Ray Craig

waitress folds the chair in half

"cinema is drama, not accident,"waitress folds the chair in half

fathers are suppose to be missing, does dance depend

someone says kiss me and wraps trout in bevarage


Ray Craig

Found Poem: Diane Arbus

Mexican Dwarf In His Hotel Room

Found Poem: Netsuke

Diving Girl Sleeping on Dried Salmon

Renshi: Version Three

daughter clutches her mother's hospital hair

she itches everywhere but never scratches


amulets acquire a peculiar pause

aging mother in emergency room halts poem

John Solt and Ray Craig

Renshi: Version Two

purple, pimple, nipple rolled off her tongue

lifting barbells of crabapples and chamomiles

tongue red in licorice paste

mother picks up the phone and talks to herself


* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

no one doubted it was left on a chair

a practice which complies with dance


* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

eating chocolate-dipped strawberries

they bewailed imperialism

position defines the movement:

knees bend with both hands

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

"it's her birthday" so we all chew pig lard

tires screech dancers freeze automatically

speak no more about the leaves

and my skin prompted by female criminals

goose bumps into a lampshade overnight

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *


distorted percussion loops

table surface: coffee simplified by crushed ice

rumbles stomach through thought petals

spilling across sky of broken bottle dreamscape

ice-cream parlor waitress, autopsy photographer

kiss me says the girl with pink hair

under the brambles, knees knock cheeks

rambunctious wind licked from deer's ear

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

transvestite photographed with cleavage

"I'm really sorry for what I didn't show"

you needed more than less" she snickered


* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

daughter clutches her mother's hospital hair

acrobat in slippers yawns yams

why bother not to kill space time?

children encourage their parents to clap louder

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

corpse accessories purchased by phone

includes a disposable camera

disposed unseen like the line

you suggested I discard in velvet

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

the plaintiff concludes in static referents

the spiral staircase of process

must be climbed backwards upside down

people with an authoritarian mindset

won't change even when commanded

pigeons sleep in daylight

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

adrift between earth and sky

she itches everywhere but never scratches

amulets acquire a peculiar pause

surface disappears: gallery performance with turntables

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

modern girl quick to concur with pop gravity

aging mother in emergency room halts poem


* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

John Solt and Ray Craig

Frenetic Tripsters: Version Two

you were the poet now you're the poem indulging in red high-heeled vision games clothes smudged in green and yet prepare parcel someone in the audience utters how participants pause she keeps insinuating that Genghis Khan is more of the same he eats squid boiled in its own ink while seething in anger baseball stadium conclusive in adjacent airport corpse insert a soldier's injury into the swimming pool one body collapses in a bathroom far away time in Venice cuts waves into rivulets horse hospital 20 minutes by bus tourist with new weather engages in boating facilities "It was fun, wasn't it?" he smiles clutching credit card receipts she crawls small to toes quick, stand up, catch the chicken in triangles foul-hating angel mercilessly beats it black and blue earrings dangle listlessly he said: "put your breasts on the table" so I did carefully removing my orange glitter pasties together they jump out a stained-glass window hiccupped barbells on their sapphire breath flow flat as though mist eases hand august arrives in chalk patches on pavement sharkskin suits, alligator shoes and meat jackets allow her sons to catch rock 'n roll diseases symptom: foliage blends closer in cold air diggers thrift vinyls as they exemplify fashionable plates state of turmoil defines green lawn teeth cocaine-addict barbie apologizes to dress cutter creases clip, tongue vanishes on nipple her conversation door suckle scraps of apricot knots suitcase spills with fabric inhabited by twins soiled politicians must appear self-deprecating clusters cling beneath their bicycle frocks two high school girls arrested in random swimming stabbing the bathtub drain swallows circular alphabetics perfect curve balls strike out the poor prolonged exposure to vertebrate recedes to airport collapses urgent as salmon hours carefully folded in islet map he steals the phrase "tightrope over void," looks over his shoulder but no one's noticing so he stuffs it in his left Wellington boot receive sand, legs though so much waiting drain lamp, vague stitches smear on sleeve meatheads cleave shaven cellotape ears rubber sticks clearly mesh cold-cocked love swimmers summarize the distance in surgical scars staged groupies rub against inflammable thighs skate scraping to browse shingles is an easier promise only foot in mouth agrees to put silver spoon up ass contestant collapses on fabric scissors scrape salmon, girl unbuttoning lilacs in lamp the untidy half circle of his world closes noose lasso frenetic tripsters free fall flat on Magellan-skinned carpet roof samples tethered to skull snag on cadaver practice participants complain skin vulnerable to horse alteration


John Solt and Ray Craig

Renshi (collaboration)

Ray Craig left one sock
and flew away

no one doubted
it was left on a chair

a practice which complies
with dance

swung scarves around
gyrating neckless necks

plate with toast
as an identical intention?

eating chocolate-dipped strawberries
they bewailed imperialism

position defines the movement:
knees bend with both hands

bulldozer rape of demolished homes
she carefully shaves underarm hair

public access with multiple speakers
dogs bark at cartoon dogs barking

comedians prefer fish cunt for breakfast
flipped zombies, trolls, elves and imps

Brazilian cuisine with 1960s porn music
heli takes off from her bed-shaped hat

resistance in expensive red paintings?
perhaps, we might question again

how many ways there are to count to four
that's why mathematicians tend

to commit suicide on the weekends
rubber glides on feet protect floor

time flips pancakes of fame
the yellow pages unopened

paper-cut on my thumb, hurts
when I press on it

treatise on contradictions
glue sniffer's paradise lost

dancers pile their clothes on the stage
and toss blue combs into the audience

transparent heels and a shadow's hat
pedestrians receive sound of scissors on Wilshire

discarded club flyers stick to wet pavement
"it's her birthday" so we all chew pig lard

tires screech dancers freeze automatically
speak no more about the leaves

and my skin prompted by female criminals
goose bumps into a lampshade overnight

a long cloud of pink letters in Ferrari dust
extends the treatment in a popular attempt

to enhance furniture ambience
reclines tattooed on sofa of lesbian love

distorted percussion loop
stable surface: coffee simplified by crushed ice

rumbles stomach through thought petals
spilling across sky of broken bottle dreamscape

ice-cream parlor waitress, autopsy photographer
kiss me says the girl with pink hair

under the brambles, knees knock cheeks
rambunctious wind licked from deer's ear

select climbing roses suited to coastal weather?
contestants accommodate themselves in various folds

adjacent to the employee's parking-lot:
crumpled erection in ink?

more than a wad shot through chrome rocket
onto the tapestry of nightstar's winking eye

tear out the scissor sisters page
and use the rest of the issue to pack boxes

folded arms and paper cranes adorn his skirt
trades in his wife's kimono for a new pen

the unwashed remain unrepresented
on the bamboo neon scaffold of power

discipline arrives in Canada
transvestite photographed with cleavage

"I'm really sorry for what I didn't show"
you needed more than less" she snickered

daughter clutches her mother's hospital hair
so where'd you get the beauty scar,

tough guy? eatin' pineapple?
acrobat in slippers yawns yams

why bother not to kill space time?
children encourage their parents to clap louder

under the waves over the sky
bridges to clusters of fireflies

elsewhere in vinyls across Mendoza Street
corpse accessories purchased by phone

includes a disposable camera
disposed unseen like the line

you suggested I discard in velvet
celery with peanut butter

susceptible to school clothes?
the plaintiff concludes in static referents

"the spiral staircase of process"
must be climbed backwards upside down

press the fold flat against the table surface
sleeveless Marilyn top in pink or black: $29.99

people with an authoritarian mindset
won't change even when commanded

pigeons sleep in daylight
shared address anticipates marriage?

glow of life in the formica decay
"Tokyo Rottens" from alien cats

modern girl quick to concur with pop gravity
aging mother in emergency room halts poem

while gas valve grows suspicious febrile hair
swimming pool with fence

disrupts the aesthetic fluidity
1964: an Italian nun holds a transistor radio to her ear

adrift between earth and sky
she itches everywhere but never scratches

amulets acquire a peculiar pause
surface disappears: gallery performance with turntables

"purple, pimple, nipple" rolled off her tongue
lifting barbells of crabapple and chamomile

tongue red in licorice paste
mother picks up the phone and talks to herself

discovers daughter’s head in oven
and quickly hangs up on herself


June, 2004


John Solt and Ray Craig

poem (collaboration)

magazine assignment: address on a human hair
horse accuses tourist with a luminous destination

gorgeous legs turn heads on bye bye bonzo
faucet filled with trampoline glue leaks freely

cocoa skull fliers invite recipients to dance
cat sprawls on the drawing table: backyard soaked in fog

entrusted with the severity of the moment
she checked her burps, he watched his fly

remove book jacket before I prepare the spine
"nobody is despised who can manage a crocodile"

still, he peddled influenza while wearing white hats
under the peppermint hangs an ornamental acorn

stranded on surgical insects
lavender on skin doused with bird virus

we swerve to avoid clichés but
get bombed under a palm tree

detergent spills during rehearsal
map folds to salmon splayed in pulp

why did it take those people so long
to know their holes were full of hearts?

crowded apartment authentic with dengue fever
Thai sisters receive prizes in clarinet

wrestling to pull the metallic ego asunder
their stroll in the park presages superheat

replace lavender with swimmers sleep, legs
curled against my skin submerged in anonymous vertebrates

there was never a reason for the blue-painted horse
to fly through their wavering concepts of reason

children tumble over their cocoa skulls
umbrella begins with fabric stretched over contestants

they derail their dysfunctioning faces
and place wet masks on the pavement

aquarium notebook: Chinese in braille
bones illuminate in blue at random intervals

save 30% off, time's almost running out
weather one’s be kicking ass, all's not lost

stairs snag: "phobias interfere with the investigation"
insisting coffee beverage, Pablo grabs a wrapped girl

govt officials in unison pull off nylon skin
revealing severely alien skeletal structures

swans separate in cold weather
ventriloquist connected by seven pauses

grunts: "it's okay if you can't catch the ball"
she screams back, "who has hands anymore?"

to found, heights or next turn on plank
thorns cramped in nest assigns a peculiar promise

while denying the erotic as frivolously murky
they brush their nipples against the storm

door closes, someone is home
"his wife writes me sad letters, asking for detail"

unlike the cushion at the hanging nail's edge
the trout she let go kept biting her thoughts

it's four street back in popular beverage
fabric contestant closest to clothing supports spine

"eliminate household odors"
by smelling worse than the house

cumbias quickly accumulate in an hour
anonymous as spectators participate in the mirror

left over strange brewers pour out their necks
reminding sailor ghosts of life below pink waves

an hour depends is incomplete
themselves, especially as they occur will be negligible

"there's less future in the future"
closed eyes find no havoc on earth

public coffee cut on canvas
attentive in apricot knots, deliberate visual equivalents

dyslectic girl breaks windows and syntax
helicopters hover over cannibal monks

children paste souvenirs to their favorite minutes
daughter with tattoo on spine specializes in audience

acrobatic coughs slip between a hospital net
all in her nightmare induced by purple poison

for example, entry 20 in the catalogue:
museum entrance emphasize horizontal receipts for pedestrians

his second chance is to make the same mistake twice
her third trance is to keep bricks flying at the sun

partial breaks in particular, undivided
trout ligaments on scar intrigues dermatologist

who reiterates in a thick accent of unknown origin
"we really gotta get outta this pink elephant place"

afternoon stains familiar for another hour
fabricate canvas with nearby fields in august

suspension of racial disbelief hits 18th-century Mexico
mixed-blood castes: coyote, wolf, and "Hold Yourself in Midair"

envelope, canteen, scaffolding leaves a flat surface
crow furniture implies vague apartments in pencil

too much garlic before the film and no friends
after the show no theater no sky no world

depicting an aisle, nitrate pierced in tongue?
"we sit close to the screen to receive the first image"

Yoko in downtown Paris under a banana tree sighs
spaghetti and spinach swirling as if anti-cancerous

nipples disperse in fragments
remove blouse as similarities trace victims

ate so much garlic and ran
from own mouth, but how?

skin drenched in Radio Jaipur
alternative to Buddhist predecessor procures realism

teenage senility ruins their holiday
horrible pop poured on campfire embers


July, 2004

Ray Craig and John Solt

Frenetic Tripsters (collaboration)

you were the poet now you're the poem
indulging in red high-heeled vision games

clothes smudged in green and yet prepare parcel
someone in the audience utters how participants pause

she keeps insinuating that Genghis Khan is more of the same
he eats squid boiled in its own ink while seething in anger

baseball stadium conclusive in adjacent airport corpse
insert a soldier's injury into the swimming pool

one body collapses in a bathroom far away
time in Venice cuts waves into rivulets

horse hospital 20 minutes by bus
tourist with new weather engages in boating facilities

"It was fun, wasn't it?" he smiles
clutching credit card receipts

she crawls small to toes
quick, stand up, catch the chicken in triangles

foul-hating angel mercilessly beats it
black and blue earrings dangle listlessly

he said: "put your breasts on the table" so I did
carefully removing my orange glitter pasties

together they jump out a stained-glass window
hiccupped barbells on their sapphire breath

flow flat as though mist eases hand
august arrives in chalk patches on pavement

sharkskin suits, alligator shoes and meat jackets
allow her sons to catch rock 'n roll diseases

symptom: foliage blends closer in cold air
diggers thrift vinyls as they exemplify fashionable plates

state of turmoil defines green lawn teeth
cocaine-addict barbie apologizes to dress cutter

creases clip, tongue vanishes on nipple
her conversation door suckle scraps of apricot knots

suitcase spills with fabric inhabited by twins
soiled politicians must appear self-deprecating

clusters cling beneath their bicycle frocks
two high school girls arrested in random swimming stabbing

the bathtub drain swallows circular alphabetics
perfect curve balls strike out the poor

prolonged exposure to vertebrate recedes to airport collapses
urgent as salmon hours carefully folded in islet map

he steals the phrase "tightrope over void," looks over his shoulder
but no one's noticing so he stuffs it in his left Wellington boot

receive sand, legs though so much waiting
drain lamp, vague stitches smear on sleeve

meatheads cleave shaven cellotape ears
rubber sticks clearly mesh cold-cocked love

swimmers summarize the distance in surgical scars
staged groupies rub against inflammable thighs

skate scraping to browse shingles is an easier promise
only foot in mouth agrees to put silver spoon up ass

contestant collapses on fabric
scissors scrape salmon, girl unbuttoning lilacs in lamp

the untidy half circle of his world closes noose lasso
frenetic tripsters free fall flat on Magellan-skinned carpet

roof samples tethered to skull snag on cadaver practice
participants complain skin vulnerable to horse alteration


August, 2004

John Solt and Ray Craig

Nicole inquires what have you been drawing: Version Two

grid background: occurrences in algae

violets in error

six chairs bunched together in a horizontal pause

clothes soaked in air with having sadness


November, 2004

Ray Craig

I can see the bones in your eyes

akiyoshi kumiko clusters to leonard cohen

rabbit with rifle, considering amputee as potential nude torso

Found Poem: Contestants dine on horse rectum

as the particulars lock

as the particulars lock

passengers decide on their kilometers

monks emerge from their own absence

as the particulars lock

pavements tinge with hospital leaves

incision clarifies the wound


December, 2004

Ray Craig

film festival with hair: facial cinema

kilometers confine my own absence

I attempt your arrival in sand


Ray Craig

with her weather in aquarium

swimsuit actress immensely Chinese luxuriate in paparazzi paste

* * * *

Found Poem:
wouldn’t that be good
to have a movie
abut a British vampire
that goes to the ghetto
and gets down

Mingering Mike


I bought some blood yesterday
do you want some?


vacant chair faces aquarium


2004

Ray Craig

acres

explain acres with your fingers please

those places in parachute cream

those afternoon fathers in three

explain twelves torn on a ticket stub please



July, 2004

Ray Craig

surprise us with new circles

discarded salmon skulls

understand the trains

tag often

& jump


November, 2004

Ray Craig

Phew (Most)

Found Poem: Bought my daughter a Nintendo and she’s calling it Dad

cleavage room with reasonable length

Arlene’s feet skid between giant whiskers

Andrew Fenwick’s uncle lives in a basement and traces Playboy all day

my mother washes her saran wrap in cold water

quick to vague similarities

quick to vague similarities
suppose numerous pockets ask for uninterrupted memory

“Distance is a documentary but the premise is entirely fiction”

his film in recent years


December, 2004

Ray Craig

two aliens kissing, girl in green dress, crying, five chairs bunch in the corner

such as floor

such as floor
whittle puppet’s nipple

two chairs considering 45 minutes in Chinese
retrieve skin

rabbit struggles with heroin contestant

drawings were probably ventriloquist


November, 2004

Ray Craig

late afternoon, drinking ice coffee

limbs ,
you got anything I can surf to?
shirt error , bus weekend
dj equipment
dentist with missing ear
these $2 vitamin c packets
actress with missing vagina
stop, reconsider the moist dialogue


three yesterdays ago, summer from her voice



December, 2004

Ray Craig

Found Poem: Kawase Naomi Filmography

1988
I Focus on That Which Interests Me
Watashi ga Tsuyoku Kyomi o Motta Mono o Okiku Fix de kiritoru


The Concretization of These Things Flying around Me
Watashi ga Iki-Iki to Kakawatte Iko to Suru Jibutsu no Gutaika


1995
Memory of the Wind: At Shibuya on December 26, 1995
Kaze no Kioku ---- 1995, 12.26 Sibuya nite

1992
Embracing
Ni Tsutsumarete


1999
Wandering at Home: The Third Fall Since Starting to Live Alone
Tayutafu ni Kokyo – Hitorigurashi o Hajimete, Sannenme no Aki ni


December, 2004

Ray Craig

Come on, Keenoh, as she leaves the room

naked actress kissing lamp, rabbit tied to chair, rifle on the floor

naked actress kissing lamp, rabbit tied to chair, rifle on the floor


December, 2004

Ray Craig

four chairs assaulting lamp, two rabbits with rifles, watching

Found Poem:1950

that's my business measuring legs

do you mind lifting your skirt up


2004

Ray Craig

Found Poems: Pockets Dumb Fat & Jadakiss

Found Poem: Pockets Dumb Fat

I said I like yo shit & u used 2 fuck with my nigga JT tha Bigga Figga? He said yeah & I said u know me & C-Bo got problems with 50 Cent. He said, That’s y’all business, I’m not in that, I’m just signed 2 tha nigga 2 make some money. I said, I respect that, get cha paper on! Then he said, what’s up with Bang Em Smurf & Domination dissin him? I said, I haven’t heard it yet & keep it that way. I shook his hand again & told him, do ya thang cuzz we need 2 bring the west back.



**


Found Poem: Jadakiss


If I lose my voice, Nigga, I’ma flow online.



November, 2004

Ray Craig

female criminals

female criminals decay in their pavement skirts

kilometers blur




female criminals spend discarded apricot scraps in optional toast

lilac creases in lamp




female criminals disrupt intoxicated pedestrian with such separate

pavement with unattended corpse




female criminals tether to tangerine scars in explicit delay

nipples collect on my tongue



October, 2004


Ray Craig

Nicole inquires what have you been drawing

five casket dresser with severed hinges strewn about

fasten block houses to aquarium

grid background: occurrences in algae

violets in error

coffee intended as suitcase with magazine margin

two blue drinking glasses half filled with purple address

two purple bottles wrapped in beverage napkins

suburb with good scissors clinging to eaves

desk lamp complete in pretending salmon

six chairs bunched together in a horizontal pause

clothes soaked in air with having sadness


August, 2004

Ray Craig

click quiz: N + 7 anyone

click quiz: N + 7 anyone

cassette only 15

skull acres

15 minutes
five times a day

heroin contestants hesitate in autopsy photographs

15 minutes
five times a day

pathologist says her skin was speckled with adhesive infection

skin actress continues in her aquarium entrance

15 minutes
five times a day

aliens disguise as folded shirts



** ** **


click quiz: N + 7 anyone

object 6, locust

clients prefer mistakes in cleavage

15 minutes
five times a day

heroin contestants paste discarded lacerations on her salmon skin

15 minutes
five times a day

pathologist says her skin was smeared with anonymous inhabitants

aliens disguise as folded shirts

15 minutes
five times a day

skin actress continues in her aquarium entrance



** ** ** **


click quiz: N + 7 anyone

omit nurse

15 minutes
five times a day

heroin contestants gasp for adhesive infection

pathologist says her skin was scraped with subtle scissors as prize

15 minutes
five times a day

skin actress continues in her aquarium entrance

aliens disguise as folded shirts

15 minutes
five times a day

skin acclimates in salmon


October, 2004

Ray Craig

smear elevator bath on his lips

paste hospital leaves in an ambulance attempt
their scissors will be kind to him, suitably fragile and ancient

she gave him her screams for two years
corpse rehearsal in fifteen minutes


**


Found Poem: I’m disappointed in your thesis
but I want to buy some of your drawings

two years later his nose began to collapse
lilacs nipping at his feet


***


salmon crisp in scissors loop with intoxicating static
emerge as a weave, he embraces

actress posing nude for a sandwich
and twenty bucks


Dad, don’t fall asleep, you have to shave my ass


December, 2004

Ray Craig

accident from a vague leaving

accident from a vague leaving
seaweed nipples, whispers and kisses in Chinese


swimmers interrupt in clothes
rubbing her pussy as she pushes back


partials encourage skin
Five Lake Aquarium, Solano Avenue


December, 2004

Ray Craig

what are you going to do when she walks naked?

what are you going to do when she walks naked?

what are you going to do when envelope lingers on her tongue?

what are you going to do when she starts pasting scissors on her skin?

what are you going to do when she realizes there’s less peppermint in sadness?


December, 2004

Ray Craig

rabbits with rifles guard children skating on ice

rabbits with rifle guard children skating on ice, twelve chairs loom in the distance


December, 2004

Ray Craig

describe as

describe as
maybe he just doesn't hear the mistakes

lilacs in ice
shirt people fold in complicated halves


November, 2004

Ray Craig

skin map

skin map: acupuncture
the discomfort of closeness

father abstains from skin, how many
do you think you can get?

folded shirts emerge in pencil


November, 2004

Ray Craig

"That Woman"

Bill Clinton confesses on television

intended intimacy

**

implies


November, 2004

Ray Craig

Found Poem: Furniture

Doll with marriage hole

The Japanese law says you can't make the pussy too realistic


2004

Ray Craig

as before

as before, he will collapse in nurse
his hospital complexion damp with subway injuries

go see what he wants, he wants to be followed

**

as before, he will disappear in scissors
tossing his surgical knees in a tentative tuck

go see what he wants, he wants to be followed

**

as before, he will resemble funeral children
his vague cassette skull muffled in submarine drones

go see what he wants, he wants to be followed


Summer, 2004

Ray Craig

female criminals: version two

pavement with unattended corpse
tether to tangerine scars
in explicit delay

lilac creases in lamp

kilometers blur

nipples collect on my tongue


October 2004

Ray Craig

two chairs licking amputee, rabbit with rifle interrupts

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