[for/with Rachel Pearl] 

It’s been the thing i’ve been 
                            trying to say 
don’t write death on what 
                            is screaming Life 
(insistence on screaming 
                           as a bodily gesture) 
the space of sitting silent 
                           amidst a scream 
                          (yes omen) 
                          (yes god) 
                          (yes a prayer) 
and also a running 
                           the dystopic present 
                                                                     ongoes 
                           amidst screaming 
              & people accepting & Certaining 
                                         Death death death 
How pathetic 
              running to the end of feeling 
                                                         Laziness 
                                          An admonition 

                                          I admonish the murders 
                                                         in their saying 
                                                                        & so doing: Thinking 
                                         & by such thought: Ensouling annihilation 

                                        It exists in the high notes too 
                                        Your falsetto fascist 
                                        singed to a partial reality 
                                        Unburdened by the Real 
                                        [exemplify] Stop 
                                        except for the Restless bits (see what they gotta say) 

                                                                                                                                                         خلص 

                                                                                                                                                القتل مقتول 

Baritone gospel choir            Alert in the heart                         Innards containing the narrative
  Amidst abstracted shit        Scatalogical cacophony             They held secrets in their guts
They released insurgents     Shared a movemented motion               Hidden fugitive light
Sacrificial imaginary sequence        Harbinger serenity       Give me the apocalypse
Apocryphal light                     Relief in the mahdi      Procession of living

Ghosts In accompaniment                  Prices                          populate the camps
                                                                         ة
                                                                        آم     ى
                                                                       ا 

Far away ta marbouta             Happy hot of my essence    Self she lives in her     Knot
obscures truth             In her hidden side        That she saves for jesus      And his
Holy people threatened          On earth                           I am surrounded in 
             The blood of my                         neighbor                          In the bosom of empire 

Not the bowel of it       Gratuitous rot ore         Suspirian         Hold love in a dying plot
                                                                                                                                Brandishing 
                            soil 

Sacrosanct burial          In pits of orgasms 

Kill me too plato 
                            Make of me a fucking martyr 
                                                                      I’ve been waiting for this 
                                                                                                                Since first kalashnikov 
                                                                                                                                                         Touched my 
                                                                                                                                            lips 

I called my patriarch      Benevolent    Sweet tender flesh of man 
Jesus’s dad 
             Tells me its okay 
                                      The song continues 
                                                                Even after death 
                                                                                           Karaoke life 
                                                                                                          Simulacral forensic 
                                                                                                                                      Phosphoric sertraline 
                             Pits of despair diverted 

                            Phonically i phind it all 
                            sacriphicial 
                                                  ل 


                            Seraphim the silent 
                                                        Poem i heard 
                                                        once & forgot 

                                                                          كم كون 

Helplessness 
i laid in the park with 
amidst moist grass 
& many memories of passing days 
But us we were in 
                            A field of stars 
                                                                     B said we have because they do not 

It was a was
             I walked later to love 
was held by chords 
              tiny soft blades 
that could destroy 
                & instead decide 
to make a pristine 

                                                                                   Akh ya akhat 
                                                        I wish i could choose away 
                                                                                       From the fantastic 
                                                        It is the meeting of the pen to 
                                                                                      Possibility—all 
                                                                                                       Stroking infinities 

               Balagan balagan rap 
Ballooning flight 
               Fuck it ya empire 
                            Go to sleep 
But Wicked prison guard never rest 

Cracked vessel of man 
               Absorb your unholied light 

I paradise i crux 
I balagan & bikh 
Ode to the new man 
             & parasite 
            of western 
            decadence 
I hollow your rut 
            Eat it inside out 
Shit a new barometer 

                                                                            Akh my ghoulish being 
                                                                           give me something other than coast 
                                                                           nothing but coast 
                                                                           Why can’t the flourless gun flourish 
                                                                           they make targeted action in conceit in destitute 
                                                           Insofar as it becomes unnoticed 
                                                                                                                           a cell in the body 
                 Rachel Pearl said 
                 that poetry is sex work 

                 and the affective 
                 is the visceral 
                 Is the response-ability 

                                                           And some need new 
                                                           Leaps to new 
                                                           Lovelinesses 
                                                           I am talking       about